‘No going back on fee increment at AAUA’

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, has said that the institution will go ahead with its plan to increase tuition fee.

The pro-chancellor, however, gave concerned students of the university the assurance that the increment would be affordable and less than N200,000.

Before now, the students had been paying N30,000 as tuition fee. They had, alongside other stakeholders, also appealed to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to intervene in the matter by ensuring that the proposed increment should not be more than N50,000.

 Abayomi, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said the state had decided to increase tuition at the university because it lacked the means to provide funding for four tertiary institutions of learning at the same time.

He said, “Parents must be ready to make sacrifices, too. The council has started to examine all issues to find a way out, but they can find no way out without increasing the school fee. So we have made recommendations to the governor on the issue.”

The pro-chancellor also said there was no plan to merge some of the tertiary institutions, noting that each of the institution had its own governing council.

He pledged that the council, under him, would be fair, courageous and just in addressing issues and challenges facing the institution.

He said, “Our ambition is to raise the university to the international standard in terms of academics and research. That is our major objective. We intend to build a university that every graduating student will feel very proud of. That is what we intend to do.”

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