Photos: Obafemi Awolowo University Students Protest 'Outrageous' Rise In Tuition Fees

Vehicular activities were paralyzed for hours on Tuesday afternoon on the ever busy Ilesha-Akure highway. Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, in Osun State, took to the streets to protest against what they called the ‘outrageous incremental rise’ in their tuition fees.
Students numbering hundreds chanted solidarity songs, as they blocked the highways, and local streets, to prevent a free flow of traffic, and easy passage of commuters on the road.
Several travelers plying the road were stranded for several hours, pleading with the students, and their leaders, to open the road for a free flow of traffic.
The Nation reports:

The management of O.A.U., at its last Senate meeting, increased the fee of new students in the Faculty of Humanities/Social Sciences by 322 per cent; Clinical Sciences and Pharmacy by 267 per cent, and Sciences by 253 per cent.
With the increment, new students will pay between N92,400 and N104,000, excluding N20,000 acceptance fee, as against the previous N37,150 and N44,150.
President of the Students’ Union Ibikunle Isaac who led the protesters, said they have negotiated with the management to reduce the fee to no avail.
He said: “Consultations have failed and the whole Nigeria must hear us as they did about three years ago. We want peace but we are not scared of crisis and we will not allow the legacy of our founding fathers to die.”
Isaac said the increase was not justifiable because the school generates fund from various sources.