Students To Protest Against Tuition Fee Hike In UNILAG, Sept 6

A student group, Students Solidarity Group Against Fee Hike, has declared a protest against the recent increment in tuition fees by the management of the University of Lagos.
The spokespersons for the group, Tosin Solanke and Abayomi Godwin, in a statement on Saturday, said it had “become imperative to inform the public of a mass protest against fee hike scheduled to start on September 6, 2023, as students, parents, civil society organisation, informal workers, are set to hit the streets to say enough of untold hardship meted out to us.”
The Tide sources reports that the management of UNILAG, on July 21, 2023, announced an increment in the tuition fees of the undergraduate students of the institution, citing “prevailing economic realities.”
The university increased the fees from N19,000 to N190,250 for students studying medicine while for courses that require laboratory and studio, the students were to pay N140,250.
A handful of students had last Thursday gathered at Arise TV Complex after marching around the Ikoyi and Falomo areas of Lagos to sensitise passersby to the trend of fee hike in some varsities.
They said that the UNILAG management had failed to call the student delegation for further meeting.
According to them, since the wake of the announced fee hike by the UNILAG management, “we in the Students Solidarity Group Against Fee Hike engaged in a series of actions to enlighten members of the public of the dangers that this anti-poor policy portends for the generality of the people.”