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'They Refused To Listen' Ondo Varsity Orders Student Out Of School For Protesting Fee Hike

“We gathered that the students are protesting over school fees, this should not be an issue because it was an agreement we reached since 2017.

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Management of the Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, have ordered to vacate their school premises for refusing to comply to a directive asking them not to protest a hike in their school fees. 

The students were protesting the decision of the management to retain the fees between N150, 000 and N200,00 which they paid last year.

Mr Felix Akinusi, the institution’s Registrar, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Okitipupa, that the two weeks began from April 30 to May 15.

He said: “We gathered that the students are protesting over school fees, this should not be an issue because it was an agreement we reached since 2017.

“We try to talk to them to stop the protest and maintain peace but they did not listen.

“The management has officially shut the institution for two weeks and students are advised to vacate the campus,” Akinnusi said.

NAN reports that the students had on Monday barricaded the Okitipupa-Igbokoda Road, disrupted academic, administrative and commercial activities on the campus and area.