2023/2024 Session: OAU raises tuition fees for new, returning students

*Abiodun Olarewaju, Public Relations Officer of  Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, says the tuition fee modifications, which take effect from the 2023/2024 academic session, have been ‘established to ensure a fair and balanced fee structure throughout the University’s faculties’

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

Amid the ongoing controversy generated by recent increments in students’ fees in certain tertiary institutions in the West African country, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, has announced adjustments in the fees to be paid by both  the University’s new and returning students for the new 2023/2024 academic session.

Abiodun Olarewaju, Public Relations Officer (PRO) at OAU, in a recent press statement, noted the new students in the Faculties of Arts, Law and Humanities, are expected to pay N151, 200 while the returning students of the same Faculties would pay N89,200.

Olarewaju also disclosed  the new students in the Faculty of Pharmacy and College of Health Sciences would pay N190,200 whereas the returning students would pay N128, 200.

The University, fondly called ‘Great Ife’ by the students and admirers of the institution, further  noted that the fee modifications would take effect from the next academic session.

According to the institution’s PRO, these adjustments in fees have been “established to ensure a fair and balanced fee structure throughout the University’s faculties.”

It is recalled that students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have staged  protests twice within a week over similar increases in tuition fees effected by the University’s authorities.

Likewise, the students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS), came out in large numbers to protest against hikes in their tuition fees, according to report.

Meanwhile, students from both institutions have urged the concerned stakeholders in the education sector to come to their aid over development in their institutions of higher learning.