NAUTH fees hike: SUG did not authorise protest by students – President, Chukwuelue

The Students’ Union Government, SUG, of the College of Nursing Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, has disowned students who took to the schoolhouse gross connected Tuesday to protestation the hike successful tuition fee.

The students who carried placards successful Nnewi had lamented the astronomical summation successful their tuition from N95,000 to N580,000.

But the student’s national enactment of the instauration successful a property merchandise made disposable to journalists by the president, Chukwuelue Chisom, said the assemblage knows thing of the protestation and was not portion of it.

Chukwuelue said the SUG had already reached the absorption of the instauration astir the hike successful tuition, and had already received a favourable reply astir a roundtable treatment to facilitate adjustment, erstwhile it heard of the protestation by students.

A property merchandise by the SUG president read; “The SUG enactment formally communicated the concerns and apprehensions of students to the Management of NAUTH successful bid to question clarity and imaginable reconsideration regarding aspects of the recently introduced interest structure.

“We took the liable steps to prosecute the due authorities of the institution. During this engagement, the Management acknowledged the concerns presented by the Students’ Union and assured the enactment that the substance had been taken seriously.

“We were informed that a sheet would beryllium constituted by the Hospital Manage...