Improper Acts of the School Management
The Students Union Government of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun writes to you to appeal for your immediate interference in the incessant and Sessional School Charge Hike currently going on in Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun.
The Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun is the first Petroleum University in Africa and the Sixth of its kind in the World. She is reported to be seriously undergoing challenges of surviving with the Cost of Maintenance and Development as stated by the Management of the University. Hence, the Management of the University feels that one of the way to combat this challenge is by hiking the facilities they do not offer and students have been paying for every session.
The Union strongly frowns at this act which had always present it to the FUPRE Students Community as a weak body. The Union holds that with the paradigm that the University is moving, chances of an Average Nigerian getting education at the University becomes thinner. Of what essence is the University in the country if students from country of residence cannot benefit the dividend of the largest source of revenue to the Federal Government of Nigeria?
The Union even hold that instead of the hike beyond affordability of the Average Nigerian Students, the students ought to receive special packages for rendering themselves available for the benefit of the country since their education is tended towards raising manpower for the survival of the petroleum industry of the country
Attached to this letter is a 5-Session School Charges Breakdown and Their Sessional Rate of Inflation.
From the attached document as stated above, it indicates that last session School Charges reflected a 103.78% inflation for fresh students and 59.57% inflation for returning students. The Students protested this sudden inflation in a Federal University but little or no attention was paid to the voices of the Students. The Students were forced to resume when it seems no intervention was coming from anywhere. The forceful resumption launched into seasons of dropout of some returning students and the forfeiting of admission of some fresh students. Despite the hike in fee, the University Utilities paid for “dearly” by the students were rendered inefficiently while others were not rendered at all.
Due to the challenge of survival of the students during the Academic Session alongside some other unnecessary charges after a huge inflation, the students were expecting a drop in school charges but the reverse was the case
The Management smartly outplayed the Students Union in the decision of the School Charges and released an impromptu Academic Calendar mandating new students to resume just three weeks after conclusion of previous sessions examination (7th of December, 2015) with a 28.99% inflation of the previous session’s fee. The Academic Session also mandated Returning Students to resume immediately after the New Year with a discriminating fee distinguishing the 200Level Returning Students from other Returning Students even though the service rendered to both parties is the same.
The Students’ Union pushed for a dialogue with the Management and after relentless defense of the need for fee reduction rather than inflation, the Management of the University reduced the fee insignificantly and commenced clearance of the fresh students without seeking the opinion of the Students Union on the insignificantly reduced School Charges.
The Prayers of the Students’ Union
1. The Union holds that the 2014/2015 Academic Session is yet to be concluded because most of the Final Year Students of the Academic Session are yet to defend their project. Resumption now would mean that they would be ejected from the Hall of Residence (which they paid a 200% charge hike for). The Union would not be happy with this act and might be forced to embark on fierce defensive war with the school
2. The Union holds that the Management should not burden the struggling Nigerian Students amidst Economic Downcrash and Challenges. Hence, the Management should return all the School Charges back to status-quo before Friday, 18th of December, 2015 or the Staffs do not bother to resume on Monday, 21st of December, 2015 because once we kick-off demonstration, we would halt all administrative activities for a minimum of one-month even if the Management adjust the fee along the demonstration. This would also imply that the Federal Government can use the staff salaries between December 2015 – January 2016 for other National Development Activities (No Work, No Pay – He who does keep his workplace in order does not deserve the benefit that those who kept their in order get)
3. The Union further holds that the previous hike of the 2014/2015 Academic Session reflecting 103.78% inflation for fresh students and 59.57% inflation for returning students should stand for a minimum of 10-Academic Sessions before any consideration for inflation or reduction (which should also be subject to the consultation of the Students Union)


ONNI, Joseph Yusuf
For: The Presidency
Students Union Government
Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun

nice write up.......something needs to be done fast abt d hiking of the fees.....i can c the SUG
at work...more power to ur elbow...

Fupre needs fund...we all knw dey lack structures nd d environment nids beautification...tell me how else dey are gonna achieve dat? If u want quality edu. Den u must pay for it....d last tym i checkd, it was competiting wit harvard and other top world unis...pple shud make proper research before choosing a particular skul pls.if u dnt support deir motive....kindly withdraw and pick anoda uni...there are several in dis country!

Segipaul:
Fupre needs fund...we all knw dey lack structures nd d environment nids beautification...tell me how else dey are gonna achieve dat? If u want quality edu. Den u must pay for it....d last tym i checkd, it was competiting wit harvard and other top world unis...pple shud make proper research before choosing a particular skul pls.if u dnt support deir motive....kindly withdraw and pick anoda uni...there are several in dis country!

proper research as in?...so u mean u support the increment of the fees!