LASU fees: Govt, students to reach agreement soon – Fashola

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday said the state government and the students of Lagos state University; LASU would soon reach an agreeable tuition for the institution, saying “both parties have started holding talks to end the issue.”

Following agitations by the students on the fees increase, the State Governor met with leaders of the students severally and agreed that the students should make their independent study and present to Government a position paper on the way forward.

Fashola who disclosed this while fielding questions at a live television interactive session with media executives at the Lagos Television, Ikeja, weekend, said the seven-man Executive Council was currently studying the students’ paper to the Government on the tuition.

According to him, “I have passed it out to the Council. We have told the students that we are not inflexible and where we see the need for adjustment or amendment, we will do it so that they might understand it better. From the paper presented by the student, they were not against the increase but the parameters used in calculating the fees.”

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