Fees On The Increase

This seems to be a trend nowadays among tertiary institutions, as they tend to increase fees paid by their students. Most times, the authorities calm the students down with empty promises that will have no visible result in the long-run, just to prevent outbursts and riots.

I must advice, this isn't good at all, as we all know that money isn't easy to come across and fees paid in some universities are already too high.

Below is a written complaint we received recently from a student of 'Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD)’.

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"Afe Babalola University has done it again, they said there was no increase in school fees, well it is a huge lie, the fees were increased for 200 level returning students, they formerly tried increasing it but the whole school revolted and now they are trying to keep other sets happy and make money off the 200 level students and continue like this until all previous sets graduate and then they make it a norm, they think that the pressure will be less if only one set is affected. Last year we paid 1.5 million for fees, that's not to be questioned but as we are no more freshers our fees ought to reduce, it’s a norm. Now the difference between our fees and that of the freshers is a miserly 62k. We are being made to pay more for what our predecessors got for less, this is not Harvard why should we pay such and without prior warning. This is clearly a highly perfected scam.

This is a protest, please send this to all your friends and contacts, those is ABUAD and those who are not, those in 200 level and those who are not. We need to change things, if you are dissatisfied with the fee increase please forward and if you are not bothered please consider all those whose parents suffer yearly just to pay fees, let's provide some respite for them."

What's your take on this issue?