Tinubu’s Student Loan Act Was Tactic To Increase Nigerian Universities’ Fees – Civic Group, ERC Rejects UNILAG Fees’ Increment | Sahara Reporters

Tinubu’s Student Loan Act Was Tactic To Increase Nigerian Universities’ Fees – Civic Group, ERC Rejects UNILAG Fees’ IncrementThe group, while vehemently condemning the recent fee increment announced by the University management, called for immediate protests and demonstrations to reject the wave of fee hikes across the country.

ERC which made the call in a statement issued on Monday jointly signed by its Deputy National Coordinator and National Mobilisation Officer, Ogunjimi Isaac, and Adaramoye Michael Lenin respectively, asked Nigerians to demand that government funds public education adequately and ensures democratic management of schools.

"Now we think that the current situation ought to convince the NANS leadership that they had made a terrible mistake. Now we challenge the NANS leadership to immediately and urgently convene a national congress of students so that rank and file students, union leaders, and activists from across the country can hold a democratic discussion on how to resist the onslaught on public education," the statement partly read.

"This increment is happening at a critical point when the working masses are faced with myriads of crises which include petrol subsidy removal and naira devaluation. The purchasing power of many working-class families has been crushed by inflation and other attacks on their living conditions. Therefore, an increment in fees is synonymous with moving thousands of students from a frying pan into a fiercely burning fire.

"It is important to note that the university management is not acting alone in this crime against the Nigerian masses, the Tinubu administration and previous administrations which have also carried out capitalist policies aimed at depriving children of the working masses access to education are all culpable in this crime.

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