Fashola cancels new LASU fees, restores N25,000 tuition

Governor Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Thursday ordered that students of Lagos State University, LASU, should revert to paying the old school fees.

The recent increase led to protests by students and strike by the institution’s lecturers.

Fashola, who made the announcement at LASU’s convocation ceremony in Ojo, Lagos, ordered the fees to be reversed to N25,000, the students paid before the hike in tuition.

 Fashola  said the reversal cuts across all departments and faculties of the tertiary institution.

During Thursday’s event the governor also commissioned the university’s School of Transportation.

 The astronomical increase in school fees pitched the government against the students for several months. 

This led to the setting up of a committee to review the fees.  The committee set up by Governor Fashola was headed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa.

The students had demanded that the governor reduced the fees from N390,000 to N46,500.