OAU Student Leaders Meet Over N100,000 ‘Professional Fee’
The leadership of the Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, said it was holding an important meeting on Thursday after a new “professional fee” purportedly introduced at the university’s College of Health Sciences by the administrators.
It was gathered that the college management at a colloquium on Thursday announced a N100,000 professional fee to be paid by the students beginning from the next session.
OAU is rounding off its 2021/22 session as the school resumes from the election break.
“Now they said if we like we should call the Students’ Union, that they are ready to close the college. That it is not their time that we would waste,” a medical student said.
Confirming the development, the Student’s Union leaders in a statement issued by the President, Secretary-General, and Public Relations Officer, Olayiwola Festus; Odewale Damilare and Ogunperi Taofeek respectively, stated the union was holding an “emergency meeting.”
“This evening, it was brought to the attention of the leadership of the Union that there is an increment of N100,000 tagged ‘medical professional fees’ in the College of Health Sciences of the University.
“In order to address this issue properly and tackle the increment, and for the benefit of students, the Central Executive Council is holding an emergency meeting immediately,” the statement read.
