A combined force of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko and Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, both in Ondo State has locked down economic activities in Akure, the state’s capital. The students in their hundreds are protesting and demanding the astronomical increments in their tuition by over 500 percent.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had earlier threatened to “flush” any student who go on the street to protest against the increments when the NANS President, Bamidele Danielson Akpan visited him to agitate for a reduction in the “back breaking fees being charged by the schools raging from #150,000 to #300,000”.
Sunshine Reporters gathered that the students of both universities have been in Akure since Monday but shelved the plan when the State Government mobilised hundreds of security agents to the streets of Akure in anticipation of the protest.
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