RUGIPO Students Protest Shuts School

According to the protest by the students of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo over school fees hike, the authorities of the institution has ordered the closure of the school for two weeks to avoid escalation.

The students were protesting the increase in their school fees from which a break-down showed that the Ordinary National Diploma (OND) students are now to pay N73,000 while Higher National Diploma (HND) students are to pay N90,000 instead of N65,000 and N70,000 respectively.

The protest which started as a peaceful march later turned violent as the students vandalised structures included the girls hostel building, the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a new generation bank, the bank’s signpost and some other billboards. The students rejected the management’s decision to prevent those that didn’t pay their school fees from writing a unified test as they locked lecturers out of their offices.

Rugipo joins the flurry of tertiary institutions
that are hiking their schools fees without considering the students and parents on affordability.

Meanwhile, the government is claiming that education is for all in Nigeria.

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