Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, on Tuesday, staged a protest in opposition to the hike in faculty charges.
The protesting students, in accordance to data made out there to Media Talk Africa, are demanding a 50 per cent discount in the brand new prices.
The students who urged the Federal Government to allocate the funds from subsidy removing in direction of training as an alternative of permitting a rise in faculty charges known as for the implementation of the unique proposed instalment cost the Vice Chancellor of the college promised.
The students, Media Talk Africa gathered, additionally shut the establishment’s principal gate, blocking access to the college to autos.
As a consequence, students, employees, and different college stakeholders had been stranded on the campus gate on Tuesday morning.
Media Talk Africa famous that the protest was known as after the coed union congress on Monday, October 2, 2023.
Answering calls for of the students on instalment cost, the Director of ICT representing the Vice-Chancellor, Kanmi Adewara, stated it was not activated earlier due to employees scarcity.
“The ICT centre of the school has a low number of staff at the moment due to the current ‘Japa’ wave, as this has caused the process of Post UTME examination to be slow therefore leading to a slow process of activating the instalment payment on the portal.
“I promise that the instalment payment would be activated before the close of work today,” he stated.
