Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho joy might be cut short after the hike in fees marred the news of the school resumption.
The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho appears set to resume in January after a seven (7) month strike as the owner states of the university consider the report of a panel they set up on the crisis that has kept students away since June 9, 2016.
Multiple sources, however, told PREMIUM TIMES that a key recommendation of the panel is an increase in tuition and other fees to shore up internally generated revenue as a solution to the recurrent funding challenges of the university.
If you can recall, The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union, and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities in the university had declared a strike on June 9 to protest inadequate funds to run the institution and pay the workers.
LAUTECH is jointly owned by Oyo and Osun, the two states that constituted old Oyo State before Osun was excised in 1991 to form a separate state.
PREMIUM TIMES believes that the visitation panel set up by the governments of the two states has concluded its work and is about to submit its report. Premium Times also claim to have spoken with the spokesman of the university, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi who Premium Times quoted saying: "there was confidence the protracted crisis was coming to a close and that the
management was waiting for the directive to reopen the university".
What do you think of the hike in fees after the amount of months spent at home?
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