THE PRESIDENT MUST HEAR THIS
The President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammad Buhari must hear about the tragic situation in the University of Nigeria Nsukka that, if not reversed, would prevent thousands of vulnerable prospective first year students of the institution from registering for the admission they got. The administration of Vice Chancellor, Professor Benjamin Ozumba increased the number of the hurdle of fees the first year students have to pay before they take up their hard-earned placements.
In addition to acceptance fee of N25,000, tuition fees ranging from N55,000 to N60,000 depending on the course, accommodation fee of N9, 500 for males and N11, 500 for females, Ozumba introduced what he terms ‘’laptop fee’’. The first year students must cough out an extra N70,000 for some UNN-issued laptop or be deemed unqualified to register.
There is no justification for making the payment of laptop fee a condition for registration of first year students. It is simply exploitation and a means of denying the less privileged Nigerians access to education. It is rigging education against the poor.
In this hard economic season, one in which the President has declared the country broke several times, raising money to pay ‘’acceptance fee’’, tuition fees, and accommodation fee of those stipulated sums is tough. These are times when federal and state governments can’t pay the civil servants who are supposed to underwrite their children’s education. To choose this time to lay an extra burden on broke people is not mere wickedness. It is murder!

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