LASUSTECH Watch

Safiu Kehinde The management of Lagos State University of Science and Technology (formerly Lagos State Polytechnic) has finally reduced the increased certificate fee   from #30,000 to #10,000 after several backlash from the Polytechnic students in the institution over the controversial increment. As contained in a statement signed by the University's registrar, David Semawon Ogunbe, the management decided to review the sudden 500 percent increment following complaints tendered by the Polytechnic’s Students Union Government and the intervention of the Vice Chancellor who submitted that the increment should not be more than 100 percent of the initial amount. The statement read in part; “Sequel to the complaint expressed by the Students Union Government of the Polytechnic in a letter dated 24 th June, 2023 on the increase in Certificate Processing fee from N5.000 ( Five Thousand Naira) only to N30.000 (Thirty Thousand Naira) only and the intervention of the Vice Chancellor, the...

LaspoSUG Urges  Students to Remain Calm  Amidst Certificate Fee Increment                                SUG President Surakat Muftaudeen By Nurudeen Adebayo and Agbaogun sodiq The Lagos State Polytechnic Student Union government has urged the students to embrace peace and trust them amidst the certificate fee increase by the school management. The School management early last week sent a Memorandum stating the fee will be increased from 5000 naira to 30, 000 naira, which has caused distress among the students. There have been speculations on campus that students want to wage a protest from Ikorodu to Isolo Campus. SUG President Surakat Muftaudeen while addressing Laspotech Press Club yesterday said the stand of the union is there should be no increment and there are plans to make things right. His words "We just received the memo last week and we’ve made our stand clear to the management, tha...

LASUSTECH Third Gate Photo: Moshood Hameedat • Fee skyrockets from #5000 to #30,000  • Management gives forex increase for reason • “Outrageous and inconsiderate” Students react • “We are your fathers. We are not wicked” PRO clears air around controversies Safiu Kehinde, Adebayo Nurudeen, Ibrahim Habeeb, & Bisiryu Hassan Lagos State Polytechnic’s students have decried the sudden 500 percent hike in price of the institution’s certificate fee by the school management as they call on the state government’s intervention over the increment. Sponsored Advert The Polytechnic’s Governing Council had, in a memo circulated earlier last week, announced the change in certificate fee which skyrocketed from 5000 Naira to 30,000 Naira. As contained in the memo, the Governing Council had, in April, held meeting over a proposed upward review of students’ ancillary fees which subjected the certificate fee to change alongside others. The approval of the increment, however, did not augur well fo...