Students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti (EKSU) are set for a showdown with the authorities of the institution, following the over 100 per cent hike in the fees payable by the students of the institution.

Nigerian Tribune gathered from returning students of the institution, at the weekend, that the fees, which peaked at N191,000 per session, were not acceptable to them as, according to them, “it meant that the poor cannot study in the state university any longer.”

Many of the EKSU students enquired from the Nigerian Tribune in Ado Ekiti, at the weekend, if the fees published via a paid advertisement and signed by the Registrar of the university, Dr Omojola Awosusi, was “true and real.”

The new fees regime as advertised by the university showed that it range from N93,000 to N191,500 depending on the course as against the N50,000 it was pegged at by Governor Kayode Fayemi when he took over government in October 2010.

For instance, new fees introduced in the institution’s Faculty of Engineering along with the N50,000 tuition fee, are “Registration, Examination, N2,500; Library N1,500; Sports N5,000; Health Centre N7,500; GST N1,500; ID card N1,500; Caution fees N2,500; Verification N2500; Matriculation N2,000; Convocation N2,000.

Others are IT supervision N10,000; M.I.SN 2,000, Laboratory Workshop N5,000; Professional fee N10,000; Equipment N5,000; Faculty/Departmental due N10,000; and Handbook N1,000, making the total sum payable in the faculty N122,000.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/36332-crisis-looms-at-eksu-as-students-decry-hike-in-school-fees

Mod move to front. I have already warned that  lasu fee hike by 1000percent if implemented will spell a doom for the
nig students.

First, twas d name change to EKSU (crazie name) Nw its hike in fees, na wa 4 dis Fayemi led administration. When wl education be sane in Ekiti?

ekiti - fountain of knowledge!

Ekiti state as a whole has alot of problems.

EKSU, hmmm I nearly called it EKWENSU.

Where is our governemt taking education to? They are fufuiling stupid Ohakims word that education is for the Rich and not the poor. Dear Lord In Heaven intervene for your children and let all the bad politicians in Nigeria be destroyed In Jesus Name, Amen

UP ACN, UP ACN, UP ACN. EKITI PEOPLE MUST PAY THAT FEE.
OSUN UNI. FEES INCREASED
EDO FEE INCREASE
LAGOS THE SAME STORY
EKITI SAME STORY
OGUN TO FOLLOW SOON.
I LAUGH IN HYPOCRISY,.

USELESSS PARTY.

Toying with destinies! I think it's better for the students to buy okada bikes with their school fees than graduate n remain jobless

Old outdated tactics bein employed by Fayemi:he will later make a state broadcast,revising down d fees and some will den hail him as d greatest messiah Ekiti has ever seen.Dumb govt,dumb people

adino:

UP ACN, UP ACN, UP ACN. EKITI PEOPLE MUST PAY THAT FEE.
OSUN UNI. FEES INCREASED
EDO FEE INCREASE
LAGOS THE SAME STORY
EKITI SAME STORY
OGUN TO FOLLOW SOON.
I LAUGH IN HYPOCRISY,.

USELESSS PARTY.

osun state univ. Sch feez waz btw 162,500 and 192,500, b4 aregbesola came in2 office, he then reduced it 2 100k

Is this how ACN wants to overthrow PDP?
Very soon somebody will come here and paint PDP as Nigerias only problem and ACN as our saviour and saint

Like I said on another thread I see PDP taking some states from ACN at the next elections

ACN has proven times without number that it's a progressive party. Age let the school fees keep progressing while the standard retrogresses. Good Job ACN.

So amusing how our tertiary institutions are being changed from centers of learning to business ventures. They keep increasing tuition with no improvement of quality in what they deliver (lectures and graduates) and infrastructures. Seems government no longer want to do anything as their major function is being changed to fund mismanagement. Another challenge is that ASUU is never on the side of the students yet the students clamour for them all the time all because of the graduate quick syndrome. Why can't they go on strike due to the undue hike in fees (when truly it implies more funds for them to embezzle)? SMH for this kind of government.
The other time, Amosu single handedly closed down TASUED without going through NUC that gave them accreditation and yet, both students and lecturers alike felt it wasn't their pains. Until we agree that an injustice to one is an injustice to all and drop our I don't care attitude, government across the country will keep inflicting pains on us.

afam4eva:

ACN has proven times without number that it's a progressive party. Age let the school fees keep progressing while the standard retrogresses. Good Job ACN.

I want to presume you are only being sarcastic here right? The school should progress with age and should have land marks and not retrogress and neither can continous hike in fees be seen as progressing.

jedisco:

Is this how ACN wants to overthrow PDP?
Very soon somebody will come here and paint PDP as Nigerias only problem and ACN as our saviour and saint

Like I said on another thread I see PDP taking some states from ACN at the next elections

My dear all of them are birds of the same feather.

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Students of EKSU should ask their governor to come to IMO state for lectures by the peoples governor, Rochas Okorocha, who has declared free education at all state owned institutions plus bursary.

Is the earnings of perents in ekiti enough to pay the fees? Are there improvements in the quality and quantity of educational services offered to student, even if the answer is yes that amount is high for an average nigerian perent who most often does have more than one child.
Funniest or disheartening part tje money does not cover cost of feeding, study materials and provision of healthcare.

bulksms247:

EKSU, hmmm I nearly called it EKWENSU.

Where is our governemt taking education to? They are fufuiling silly Ohakims word that education is for the Rich and not the poor. Dear Lord In Heaven intervene for your children and let all the bad politicians in Nigeria be destroyed In Jesus Name, Amen

hahaha, you go wound pesin pikin o.

i wonder the rationale for the hike in fees

Benue State University have more infrastructure than Ekiti State University
all courses are accredited in BSU except Medicine which is at its 3rd stage of accreditation
returning students pay below 30k while new students pay below 50K

the same thing goes for Nassarawa State University, Kogi State University, Kano State University

at least i have visited EKSU, OOU the Uncoordinated LASU campuses around and i wonder whats happening
cos in-terms of infrastructure you cant compare them with the state universities in the north.
90% of the courses offered in the state universities in the north are accredited with at-least 4 Phd holders in every department.

this is why we see alot of south westerners seeking admission in the northern state universities
i hope the governor who had free education courtesy of Awolowo back in the days are denying the present generation what should originally be free.

Kano and Adamawa states are even giving its indigenes free education in there state universities.

I support the fee hike. I even think its too low. All schools should peg their fees at not less than 250,000 Naira per student.

That said, its now the place of the government to set up a credible scholarship scheme for students on merit. Its nonsense for the government to tell Universities to charge Bleep amount and then would not fund these universities well enough for them to run and function as they should. Its time the government realises that school is not for all, but for the intellectually gifted.

NOW, I must say that EK_wenSU has some rather funny items on their school fees breakdown. . . .  Whats Professional fees biko nu?!   Not to talk of I.T Supervision?!  

Our Governor is giving us free university education and these ACN clowns are hiking their fees over 100%, and somebody is telling me vote ACN in 2015.

There will be no crisis. University education is not a must. University education can not be free. Those who want it must be willing to pay for it. There is nothing wrong with EKSU as a name. It's just an acronym. We Ekiti indigenes love the name. I support realistic governors like Fayemi. No point deceiving the people with substandard education. Free education should be limited to pre-primary, primary and Junior Secondary Schools.

Xtfield:

There will be no crisis. University education is not a must. University education can not be free. Those who want it must be willing to pay for it. There is nothing wrong with EKSU as a name. It's just an acronym. We Ekiti indigenes love the name. I support realistic governors like Fayemi. No point deceiving the people with substandard education. Free education should be limited to pre-primary, primary and Junior Secondary Schools.

Enemy of progress, what happens to the intellectually gifted but financially deprived in the society that's what I hate the most about nigerians quick to compare themselves with foreign countries in terms of expensive education without putting in place things like student loans, transparent scholarship programmes, sound secondary schools and good vocational institutes. The fact remains Nigeria isn't ready for expensive tertiary education especially with 90% of the people living below poverty and high illiteracy rate.GOD BLESS NIGERIA

What is all this fuss about? Though the fees is still high, but, do you know how much they were paying in UNIOSUN and EKSU(formally UNAD) before ACN got to power? You must be joking!