Students shut down LAUTECH over Fee Hike

The Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) have shut down the institution’s Main Campus in Ogbomoso and also its Medical School in Osogbo over an increment in their tuition fees.

The Institution had earlier decided that the fees hike will take effect from the 2018 / 2019 academic session. The students who paid N120,000 for indigenes of Oyo and Ogun states and N150,000 for non-indigenes at the beginning of the 2017/2018 session are now to pay N200,000 as indigenes while non-indigenes are to pay N250,000.

The new fees are against the initial plan of N63,500 for indigenes and N72,500 for non-indigenes who are returning students.

However, as early as 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it was gathered that the students took to a protest, locked the institution’s campus gates in Osogbo and Ogbomoso and are using the hashtag, #OccupyLautech, stating that they will not leave till the school management reverses its decision.

The strike-led closure has disrupted the flow of vehicles and grounded the day to day activities in the school.