Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) have blocked the
Ife-Akure highway to protest against the recent fee hikes university
authorities recently implemented.
Passengers on the federal highway were stranded as the students also
blocked all exit and entry routes linking Osun State to other states in
the country.
The university reportedly increased the fee of newly admitted
students into Clinical Sciences and Pharmacy by 267 %, Humanities/Social
Sciences by 322%, and increased the fee by 253% for students admitted
into Sciences.
The protesters expressed that they have negotiated with the school
management to reduce the fee but they have refused to grant these
requests.
We are trying our possible best to avoid confrontation, but since
consultation and consolidation have failed, the whole Nigeria must hear
us again as we did about three years ago. We want peace but we are not
scared of crisis. We will not allow the legacy of our founding fathers
to die,” said one of the protesters.
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