The authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU) say it has the right to review and increase fees, aside tuition fees which the State government was in charge of. Mr Akin Lewis, LASU registrar, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
NAN reports that LASU authorities had increased the acceptance fee for the newly admitted students from N10, 000 to N20, 000 and indigenous students’ fee from N1, 000 to N5, 000. However, the University Students Union (LASUSU) had demanded for a reversal of the fees with immediate effect to prevent crisis. Lewis said that the university had not asked students, expect the new students who had been offered provisional admission, to pay an acceptance fee. According to Lewis, payment of the acceptance fee had been a norm in the institution and the decision to increase it rests on the university management.
“This is not the first time new students are paying acceptance fee, so, an increment should not be an alarm, the management has the right to review and increase fees. “This is not an increment in tuition fees, but an increment in acceptance fee and the management has reasons for its decisions,” he said.
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