The National Association of Nigerian Students has expressed strong opposition to the alleged plans by federal universities in the country to increase by 200 per cent their tuitions and various other charges from this year.
NANS urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to “as a matter of urgency, intervene and stop the plan before it degenerates to crisis in the nation’s ivory towers”.
The PUNCH reports that NANS is the umbrella body of all Nigerian students in tertiary schools both at home and in the diaspora and it has about 50 million members globally.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported of a plan to hike fees of federal universities over rising inflation.
A survey across some federal universities in the country also revealed that some universities had announced a hike in fees.
But NANS in a letter addressed to Buhari, dated January 4, 2023, and titled, ‘Request for fatherly…
