Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Awka to Protest against the school management on recent hike in tution fees and other levies.

The students are not happy with the increase in tution fees, acceptance fee and GST fees for both new and old Students.

However,the school management in a press release described the hike in fees as mere rumour and urges students to desist in any form of protest that may damage school property or cause delay in the academic calendar.

The students are displeased with the hike as new students are made to pay close to Two hundred thousand naira(N200,000).

A new students however disclosed he was shock at the fees being listed out for him to pay which includes;


Acceptance=N47,000, School fees N102,000,GST fees=N16,500, orientation=N5,800 and other levies.The fees for the staylites as well almost double times the amount they do pay before.

The students therefore declared a protest until the VC,Prof Esimone reduces the fees.


A student wrote;

*School Fee Hike: Should you Protest?*



"Freedom obtained without much ado is all the freedom required to keep you kneeling." ~Tsaldari.

Was it not Martin Luther King Jr., who once said that "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. "

Things that matter, for an average Nigerian, is the things that make our already complicated lives more unbearable. For lecturers, it's the non-payment of salaries, allowances, and arrears;  for which we witness intermittent interruptions in academic activities occasioned by the shutdown of schools and consequently, ASUU strike, which lingers for as long as is necessary; for a government retiree, it's the non-payment of entitlements and gratuities; for the average Nigerian civil servant, it's the part or non-payment of salaries- these are the things that matter to us- they are our shared struggle. A struggle we signed up for the second we cried our first in that hospital in Kano, Lagos or Enugu. 

These are the things that make us kick- they make us cry, cringe and thin into utter resignation or a renewed will to keep our heads above the waters in our respective and collective fight for survival- these things make us take to the open chanting "We no go 

gree!" 

We do this not because there's a conceivable fulfillment in unsettling the polity but because it's the only tool we have to earn attention, empathy, regard, and the slightest shift in institutional policy.

Freedom is not given; it is taken!

When deployed to the maximum, protest unsettles anti-people policies that make a mockery of people's sufferings, aches, and challenges at a time when poverty is drilling holes in pockets. 

You may have people paying your bills? But, honestly, they sweat for it; elite or peasant. 

How about that Zikite, whose only source is that side hustle at the school gate, Next Level, Yahoo, Miracle junctions, and Book Foundation? Ever thought about the parent who has to hawk one ware or the other by the roadside, or do odd jobs, just to realize a paltry 7,000 monthly stipend for a ward in Unizik, who has to fill gas, buy clothes, commute to and fro school, buy textbooks and all sorts? For that parent, it's the joy when they say, with such self-satisfying smile: "E jere m na nke onye POS ka m tinyelu nwa m obele oge ọ jị eli nli..." They say it because they believe the poor, too, can go to school. They believe their struggle for four, five, or six years is nothing compared to the joy of raising a human who can take on life with education as the only tool, at a time when their contemporaries are nudging doors open with just an elbow in a highly competitive, elitist and tribalistic society-Nigeria. 

This isn't activism; it is about protecting the interest of a union. Do you not know that you belong to a union? It is the Students Union Government. 

And a little solidarity is all the sacrifice you need to make for others to have a shot at something they'd ordinarily not attain. 

If you care less about mass So, should you protest? Well, it's totally up to you, dear roomie! 

But, never forget that "the man who lives only for himself is no less than the common thief- for they have selfishness in common." ~Tsaldari. 

If we wanted education- the best money could afford- we know where to find one- certainly not here, not in "this our Unizik!"

*_Rebroadcast to encourage more people to join the protest.*_ 

#WeAreStrongerTogether

#EndSchoolFeeHike

©Counsel

 _Concerned Zikite

Many students has been expressing their sadness over the situation as many students are not from a rich home,this is a federal University for Christ sake"a student lamented.

The students still maintain their stand that the protests must hold next week as the press release was just to fool them.

They, there urge students to come out in mass and protest peacefully.


Students also plead with the federal government to do something as parents are complaining.

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