Fashola bows, reverts LASU fees to N25,000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LAGOS — Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday reverted the school fees being paid by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, to the old rate of N25, 000.</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This came as armed security operatives shot teargas canisters at the members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU-LASU, who gathered few metres away from the entrance gate to protest their unpaid salaries.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_430604" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/02/fashola-jonathan-will-hand-whether-like/govfashola1/" rel="attachment wp-att-430604" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="*Fashola" class="size-full wp-image-430604" height="270" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Govfashola1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*Fashola</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The administration of Fashola had in 2011 hiked the fees to between N193,000 to N350,000, which led to massive protests by students, leading to the reduction in the fees from between 34 and 60 percent few months ago.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But during the 19th convocation ceremony of the school at its campus in Ojo area of Lagos, Fashola succumbed and announced total reversal of the school fees to the old rate of N25, 000.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The total 100 percent reversal of the fees elicited wild jubilation among students and parents, who commended the governor for doing the right thing.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_458549" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-need-worry-sarabia-ban-pilgrims-muslims-leaders/lasu-19th-convo/" rel="attachment wp-att-458549" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Anniversary: Lagos State Governor, Visitor to Lagos State University, LASU, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (right); Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Mr. Olabode Agusto (2nd right); Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor John Obafunwa (2nd left), and the Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Otunba Fatai Olukoga (left), during the 19th Convocation Ceremony and Congregation for Award of Higher Degrees as part of activities to mark the University’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, at the Main Auditorium, Ojo, Lagos, yesterday." class="size-full wp-image-458549" height="282" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/LASU-19TH-CONVO.gif" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anniversary: Lagos State Governor, Visitor to Lagos State University, LASU, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (right); Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Mr. Olabode Agusto (2nd right); Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor John Obafunwa (2nd left), and the Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Otunba Fatai Olukoga (left), during the 19th Convocation Ceremony and Congregation for Award of Higher Degrees as part of activities to mark the University’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, at the Main Auditorium, Ojo, Lagos, yesterday.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; 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Fashola bows, reverts LASU fees to N25,000

LAGOS — Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday reverted the school fees being paid by students of the Lagos State University, L...

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