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Postgraduate students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, on Wednesday protested against alleged exploitation by the university authorities.
During the protest, the students marched to the university’s Senate Building and the Postgraduate College among other locations in the university.
The protesters accused the university of “deliberate delay” in the release of final results of students after completion of their programmes and charging tuition for additional semesters spent waiting for the results.

The students said they had earlier communicated their displeasure to the university and held a meeting with the authorities.
They explained that the protest was necessitated by the breakdown of a negotiation meeting held with the school management on Tuesday.
The negotiation meeting had 13 of the affected students and representatives of the university management headed by the Provost of the OAU PG College and Dean of Students in attendance.

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PostGraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Osun State, has accused the management of the school of systemic fraud and exploitation.
In a document sent to DAILY POST on Sunday, which comprised a communique and letter addressed to the Vice-chancellor, the students specifically frowned at what they described as continuous payment of fees after final oral defence, among other sundry issues.
The communique, dated September 11, chided the university management for charging the highest fees for post graduate programmes among other federal universities in Nigeria.
The communique further queried the reason why the management will delay sittings on the final results of students after completion of their programmes, and at the same time continue to charge them for subsequent semesters they spent waiting for their results.
“Despite the outrageous increment, nothing has been done in averting delays and curbing administrative bottlenecks, which resulted in continuous payment of fees after final oral defence.
“The continuous payment of fees after final oral defence is rigid, unfortunate, exploitative and the peak of inhumane treatment a Nigerian student can be possibly served,”‎ they said.
In the same vein, the students, in a letter dated September 12, which was addressed to the Vice-chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, and copied to all the unions on the campus, as well as Chairman, Committee of Deans, and Dean, Students’ Affairs maintained their stance on the alleged illegal charges, and demanded for immediate redress.
“Taking into account the obvious, that we students, after the submission of our corrected theses have no control over the recurrent delayed approval forms E, A, and Abstract, at different stages of sittings.
“We lament the unjust cause for which we are made to bear the brunt by way of being continuously charged heavily for our period of inactivity.
“Moreover, as a university which prides herself as a foremost university in the continent, with massive efforts of operating based on well-established international standards, we find such a policy alien in the comity of prestigious universities.

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