LASU: Students no longer required to pay N20, 000 acceptance fee

Incoming students no longer have to pay the N20, 000 acceptance fee.

Management of the Lagos State University, LASU, has reversed the increase in acceptance fee.

It was previously reported that the management increased the fee from N10, 000 to N20, 000 for incoming students, but reports now show that students only have to pay the N10, 000 like they were doing previously.

According to Vanguard, Mr Adeyemi Onikoro, President, Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) confirmed development to newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.

“From our investigation, the new students ‎have started paying the N10, 000 as revised,’’ he said.

The school authorities, have previously increased the fees in November. Indegenes were also expected to pay N5, 000, as opposed to the N1, 000 they were paying previously. This move did not go down well with the LASU Student Union. The students protested the increase and it looks like their wishes have been considered.

Onikoro‎ said that the university’s authority had updated the website for the new students to pay N10, 000 as against N20, 000.

He, however, mentioned that while the acceptance fee was reverted, the indigeneship fee had yet to be reversed from N5, 000, to N1, 000.

“The implication of a refusal by the management ‎not to reverse the indigeneship fee, is that the Lagos State indigenes will be paying more than the non-indigenes in their state owned university,’’ he said. According to Onikoro, the indigeneship fee‎ must also be reversed so that it will not escalate into community rancour.

“This is not an issue affecting only the students union alone but the National Association of Lagos Indigenes Students (NALIS) and ‎the Lagos State traditional rulers will also seek redress,’’ he said.

Onikoro lauded the management’s effort to reverse the acceptance fee, and urged it to do the needful by reversing the indigeneship fee also.