Students threatens protect over non-reversal of fee hike

 

The National Association of Nigerian Students, on Friday, threatened to shut down Nigeria, should all tertiary institutions that have increased their fees refuse to comply with President Bola Tinubu’s directive on reversal.

The President had on Monday directed the authorities in all federal institutions of higher learning to avoid arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable and where possible defer further increase so that parents and students would not face many difficulties.

But the apex students’ body in a statement accused some institutions of plans to flout the President’s directive, threatening a nationwide protest if they (institutions) did not comply.

It reads in part, “We are also aware that many state institutions, including polytechnics, are also planning to increase fees. Even the Unity schools were not left behind in this unfortunate trend.

“We want to seize this moment to warn that failure to comply with the directive of the Federal Government on the matter of fees hike will leave us with no choice than to evoke the last ‘C’ of Aluta; a nationwide confrontation. We will not only take our protests to the streets, but we will also bring them to your respective University gates. And it will be Aluta infinitum.”