By Hameed Oyegbade, Osogbo | Publish Date: Jan 10 2017 7:40PM

Students of Osun State University not paying fees owe up to N2 billion in tuition, the vice chancellor of the school, Professor Olabode Popoola, has said.

Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital, the VC said the situation of the unpaid school fees has become unbearable and that the system might collapse if drastic measures were not put in place to recover the debt.

He lamented that many of the former and present students of the university refused to their school fees and that the institution would no longer tolerate such habit for any of its students.

The VC also expressed concerned that majority of the returning students have not paid their school fees seven weeks after resumption for the current academic session.

Professor Popoola threatened that the university would publish the names of defaulters in the newspapers if they refused to pay their outstanding school fees.

He said the management of the institution was making frantic efforts to reach parents and guardians of the students so as to be able to establish the reason for the non-payment of school fees by their wards.

He noted that some of the students usually frustrated efforts of the school management to reach their parents or sponsor and urged parents to always find out the studentship status of their children in the university.

He said before fixing school fees for the university, fees payable in other state-owned institutions across the region were considered and relatively smaller fees were being charged in UNIOSUN.

Also, as part of measures to ensure payment of necessary fees by the students, the vice chancellor declared that all students, who fail to register, will no longer be allowed into lecture halls and will no longer be allowed to write examination.


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Billion ke? Na how much be school fees there Abeg?

op pls check what u wrote down

Are u kidding me??

wawuuuu... adonbilivit

What about the billions the the state Governor owes some of the students' parent, has he paid?

He said before fixing school fees for the university, fees payable in other state-owned institutions across the region were considered and relatively smaller fees were being charged in UNIOSUN.

This UNIOSUN VC must have been motivated to make this statement by the typical "Osogbo weed"!

Which state university in the South West started the payment of 6 digits (hundred of thousand) school fees in 2007 the school started?

Government that owe salary.

Make the VC wait small Jan 14th is around the corner......The students use the money go do MMM

The VC is yet to come to terms that things are hard and besides most of the students have civil servant parents I think,who have not been paid for long. And the VC calling a 6 figure tuition cheap is just madness

something fishy is going on with this folks.....

Booked

Two Billiyon Ke

Pardon them
They won't rob to pay school fees
Nigeria hard

Thy will not pay simply because aregbesola and uncle BUHARI failed the system by not paying thier mothers who is an ordinary teachers of a primary school


Imagine half salary of 30k for someone with a family of 5 children can 30 k feed them successful for a week Talkless of 1 month Talkless of saving up to pay least course of uniosun of about 140 k

#2billion?! Jesu! Meaning all their students r struggling to pay the fees

the state owing the student parents billions and where do u expect them to have money to pay if they are not been paid first

Problem is it is becoming more difficult to fund Universities.

In Nigeria, most public universities charge N50000 and below. Which is supposed to be because ''of the masses'' Problem is, that fee is just about $1000....and that is not enough to take care of all the costs associated with running a university.

And now that we have falling revenues from oil, and the other few things we export, we can no longer fund universities adequately.

ASUU has been going on strike about this matter. Problem is, government promises them one thing...and then few years later says that they cannot pay anything more.

So what is left? Universities have to increase fees.

And that is the only solution for now. Universities have to increase fees so that they can have the cash to improve services. Even if oil prices go up, even if we remove corruption from our campus leaderships, and the country as a whole., even if oil prices go up, and we ''diversify''(which would take years actually...which is why PMB better start doing something about this)....it still remains that a university costs money. Lots and lots of money. Unless someone has a better idea.

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Some employees of the university have issued receipts without remitting the funds to the school and therefore gotten extremely rich sabotaging their place of work. Nigerians need to change.

Lol...d Op is right...some students are in 400l and are yet to pay 4 their 100,200 and 300 skul fees...we're even expecting d man 2day in our campus...he's coming to say it to our faces dat we're...they are...owing d skul billions of naira ...dey wan publish d debtors name inside newspapers sef...isn't dat ridiculous

Tolexander:
What about the billions the the state Governor owes some of the students' parent, has he paid?

God bless you.

you mean they are going to school on credit

delishpot:
Billion ke? Na how much be school fees there Abeg?

I thought I was the only one

The value of a naira is disturbing sef. Billion school for fees......Even if they are owing fees dating back four years, a billion.......chai

hmm

wahali some people, mainly old and elder, no sabi lie. Which institution will allow you into exam hall without exam card that read all courses registered for and allowable to sit examination for.


in fact, how do one even get exam card without full school payment and proper course registration and in some cases signed by the course lecturer.


still the observe the kind lie we the blow for this our we country