These are hard times for students and parents, as they are now to pay more for their education following increase in fees by the nation’s federal and state universities.
Many institutions have increased their fees by 100 to 200 per cent, which may force some indigent students out of school.
Already, most federal and state universities have raised their fees, to cushion the effects of funding challenges in public institutions.
They justified the hike on poor government funding of tertiary education and rising inflation in the country, which shot up to 22.4 per cent, the highest in 17 years, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
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