Ogun reduces fees in tertiary schools

The Ogun State government has reduced tuition fees in state-owned tertiary institutions by 61 per cent.
The reduction takes effect from the 2014/2015 academic session.
The government abolished the payment of different fees by indigenes and non-indigenes.
Addressing students’ representatives at the Governor’s Office in Abeokuta, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology Segun Odubela said the reduction was reached after deliberations by the government with students’ leaders and heads of the institutions.
Some students will now pay as low as N29,700.
According to Odubela, medical students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), who have been paying N301,610, will now pay N176,596. Arts students in the same institution will pay N81,112 instead of N126,540.
Other schools affected by the development are the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta; Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun; College of Education, Omu; the four Information Communication Technology (ICT) polytechnics and the College of Health Technology, Ilese-Ijebu.
The government donated 13 buses to the Student Unions of all tertiary institutions in the state.