Attempt by the University of Maiduguri Vice Chancellor and Management to increase the tertiary institution’s tuition fee from #25,000 to #129,000 over 400% increase was stopped by the National Assembly’s Senates.

The stoppage of this UNIMAID tuition fee hike was contained in a statement signed by the Special Assistant to the Senate President on Media, Ezrel Tabiowo, the Senate’s decision to wade into the hike in fee by the institution was reached following a motion considered during plenary.

The motion to stop this outrageous fee hike was sponsored by Senator Abubakar Kyari (APC, Borno North). He decried that “Half of the men in North-East Nigeria have received no education at all, and this figure rises to over sixty-one percent for women. It is imperative that schools in the North-East should remain of strategic national interest with overwhelming National Security importance,” Kyari said.

The House of Senate has however tasked the Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND to collaborate with the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders such as the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) in order to reach consensus on a harmonized tuition fees for all universities across Nigeria.


https://ngg.ng/2019/10/30/unimaid-tuition-fee-increment-plan-stopped-by-nass/

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