OOU, Ago Iwoye’s Management’s Meeting with Students, Deadlocked Over New Tuition Fees
The first meeting between the management team of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, and the students, over the newly introduced tuition fee has ended in a deadlock.
The students’ leaders, during the tense meeting held at the senate building last Friday, issued a 72-hour deadline to the management to meet their demands.
The 72-hour deadline expires on Monday.
Following the deadlock, the management team headed by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ayodeji Agboola, had scheduled another round of meeting with the students’ leaders on Wednesday this week.
But the student Union Government on Saturday in a statement said its representatives would not attend the next meeting, if their demands are not met by Monday.
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During the meeting, the students’ leaders listed their demands as including the immediate reversal of the increase in the tuition fee which ranges from 120 to 194 percent.
They also demanded the reduction in the clearance fees, scrapping of the tech fees, reduction of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) fees and rejection all form of online teaching in the 2024 academic session, as well as the reversal in the hostel fees increase.
During their meeting, the vice chancellor was said to have told the students leaders that the new increase in the tuition fee was affordable to most of the students.
He also said that the university intends to run one session in 2024, instead of two sessions in the outgoing 2023 session, for effective teaching, as well as meet the monthly bill of diesel, which he puts at N50 million.
According to the vice chancellor, the proposed one session for the whole of 2024 would requires additional funding, which the current tuition fees could not cover.
