₦airaland Forum

University of Port Harcourt increases hostel fee by 150% for all Hostels.

For the three categories of PG Hostels, the hostel prices were 40k, 50k and 70k for the just concluded session. The new academic session has all categories of the Hostels paying a flat rate of 100k.

If this is not witchcraft I wonder what is. All efforts to negotiate with management is proving futile as they have refused to give a listening ear. Some students are even tagging it as the last dance of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Georgewill Owunari, who has about a year left in office.

Who will come to the aid of students who are struggling in harsh economic weather?

What will you say of OOU hostel of #195,000 per student with four in a small room?

Bankowner:
What will you say of OOU hostel of #195,000 per student with four in a small room?

Piggy Bank self na bank.

This is inhumane, expect increase in hookup and fraud rates.

And some wicked people are reselling the hostels at a whooping 250k per bed space!

Tinubulation effect!!

God will punish any agbado munching nitwit and Ronu wailing bastard supporting this evil government!

Those who im talking about will quote me to wail!

Awon werey!

Rest. It's across board. Hostel fee for medical students at Unilorin was 40k two years ago, 55k last year, and now they hiked it to 108k, until the SU waded in to bring it to 100k.

It's the new reality, deal with it. Seize your fuss.

Shalom.

DarkJeddi:
So because it's across board they should swallow it without complain?
Whatever they are told to pay it's fine, it's across board?

Forkthiefnubu:
Does that make it right ? What’s wrong with u people? Young ppl every where in the world are progressive unlike in Nigeria , they are even more corrupt and support the oppressive government more than the elders, they shud chill right and take it in , you bleeped up

Lol, see where y'all brought this—I'm supporting government? Lol, no. I'm being logical. Most of us Nigerians don't like the reality or logical situations. Do you think a fee of 100k can even run a school hostel successfully? Do you think hostel fee of ₦90, 55k, or so are sustainable? The fact they did it before and gave us almost everything for free doesn't mean that's the right way. I have a Ghanian friend in university of Ghana. In 2018, he asked me how much school fee we pay in 100L, I told him it was 27k (the fee at the time), he exclaimed, 'cos they were paying >₦400000(school fee at the time).

You want the best schools and equipment and you want all that for almost nothing. It's illogical. Education is not cheap! Check how much private universities in Nigeria charge for these things, while they still lack the degree of expertise irrespective. I don't want to talk about overseas universities' fees. In fact, it will interest you to know that most people who leave Nigeria for UK, do so to go study for MSc, yet they always have to sell off properties or set aside a humongous sum of money simply for that.

The excessive dependence on freebies is a poor social habit that a country should never be accustomed to. Unfortunately, Nigeria is found wanting and now it's unsustainable as the treasury bills have nearly been eroded from the subsidies the country has been responsible for over the years.

Students and affordable housing

Gone are those days even in OAU when hostel fee was #90 per year

Tinubulation on the beat, I won't blame the school much...

Ohh. My U.P, back in the days it was less than 20k o. Choba Delta and Abuja hostels. Better stay Off-K na. I stayed in Alakahia then. Memorable days

T-PAIN EFFECTS

TimiofAbuja:
Gone are those days even in OAU when hostel fee was #90 per year

I don't believe you. ₦90?

ecomjourney:
This is inhumane, expect increase in hookup and fraud rates.

Hook Up rates are reducing because women are finding it harder to get money.

#90 naira for ABU
Ninety naira only that year

haybhi1:
I don't believe you. ₦90?

Yes , ninety naira only

Ok

Alexas58:
And some wicked people are reselling the hostels at a whooping 250k per bed space!

You dey there? Una go just open mouth waa dey yap wetin your eye no see.

SirLakes:
and it's okay, they should not complain.
ori e ti daru (your head no correct)

Alexas58:
Shut up!
I am trying to buy hostel space for someone and that is the price they told me!

Chai, why the insult na. Make una dey take am easy na. SirLakes, you ehn, oya no vex, I will not insult you back, na you be that, na God be that o.

Okay

If that amount is for a room for a year, then it is not expensive

Those hostels that look like Prison cells

8 people inside one room

Rubbish

THE STUDENTS DEY KOOL SHA CAUSE DEM SUPPOSE DON BURN DOWN THE HOSTEL BY NOW

ryloy:
Yes , ninety naira only

hmmm I still find it hard to believe you though

ryloy:
Yes , ninety naira only

VanuatuWycombe:
He is right. I paid N100 for a year fir a bed space I bought from a Secretary of my school’s VC. Those staff bought the bed spaces band hoarded them. It shouldn’t have been more than N40 per year.

HONESTMD:
Believe it ! It was even expensive. OAU Mozambique (MOZ)hall in 1993 was #45

TimiofAbuja:
Lol 😆
You don't need to believe me bruv

OlujobaSamuel:
I have a friend that stayed in OAU btw 07 to '12, all fee plus hostel no reach 50k. Around 05 to 07, I do eat comfortably with #10 inside OAU. So that #90 might be true

farady:
Yeah, there was a time accommodation in federal universities was N90 (Ninety Naira) only in this country. No be lie.

Na all of una be last set of people wey enjoy this country last. I envy you o.

TimiofAbuja, I now believe you o. Although all those things are practically unsustainable in the long term for any country though.

It's well with our land

🥴 #50,000 ÷ 365 days = #137 per day
#60,000 ÷ 365 days = #167 per day
#100,000 ÷ 365 days = # 273 per day.

Bankowner:
What will you say of OOU hostel of #195,000 per student with four in a small room?

How much is it to then rent a house outside campus?

christejames:
Tinubulation on the beat, I won't blame the school much...

Schooling in nearby countries are more expensive.

haybhi1:
You dey there? Una go just open mouth waa dey yap wetin your eye no see.

Shut up!
I am trying to buy hostel space for someone and that is the price they told me!

Bankowner:
What will you say of OOU hostel of #195,000 per student with four in a small room?

Bayelsa Medical University's hostel costs 100,000 naira per student, with 7 occupants per room. Each pair of rooms shares a single toilet and bathroom, resulting in 14 students using a single restroom facility