Indication yesterday emerged that
Lagos state government might today announce between 30 and 40 percent reduction
in the controversial tuition fee of the Lagos State University, LASU that has
pitched the students against the government. This came as the government confirmed
the receipt of the report of the Executive committee set up by governor
Babatunde Fashola to look into all issues surrounding the tuition fee.
The committee it was learnt
submitted its findings to the state Executive Council which subsequently, had over
five-hour deliberation on it. Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Lateef Ibirogba, who spoke with Vanguard at the end of the
weekly Monday Executive Council meeting last night, confirmed that the state
government received the committee’s report and deliberated on it before
adjourning to today. Continue after the cut...
According to Ibirogba, “The Exco
meeting on the decision of the recommendations made by the committee on LASU
has been adjourned till tomorrow (today). Today (yesterday) after the committee
submitted its report, we had a five hours deliberation on it and during the
deliberation, and all the issues raised were looked into. Our government is a
government that has solid structure and we feel that everything must be
thoroughly checked based on its merit.
“On the reduction of the tuition
fees, perhaps when we reach the final conclusion on the recommendations made,
that is when we will be able to decide if the tuition fee will be reduced or
not. At the moment, we are yet to reach agreement on the issues. For us to have
spent five hours deliberating on the issues, it showed that we are ready to
address the issues immediately. It will be premature to reveal what the
committee recommended.”
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