NAUTH reacts as Nursing students protest tuition hike from N90,000 to N580,000

Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, Nnewi, School of Nursing, connected Tuesday protested what they described arsenic an astronomical hike successful their tuition fees.

The students had protested the summation of their tuition from N90,000 to N580,000.

The increment followed an interior memo reportedly issued connected January 23 by O. I. Ezejiofor, CMAC/Chairman of the Board of NAUTH College of Nursing, announcing an upward reappraisal of the students’ schoolhouse fees, citing the request to upgrade the institution.

The students responded with a protest, carrying placards astatine the schoolhouse gross to explicit their absorption to the hike. Some of the students who spoke rejected the caller fees and besides complained astir the outgo of accommodations successful the institution.

However, the absorption of the instauration has pledged to conscionable with members of the committee and the pupil national enactment to resoluteness each outstanding issues and guarantee bid returns to the institution.

The Chief Medical Director of the institution, Prof. Joseph Ugonna, who spoke with DAILY POST, said helium was distant but had learned of the protest.

“Once I instrumentality to the institution, we volition conscionable with members of the committee who projected the caller tuition and besides with the pupil national enactment to benignant things out.

“As for schoolhouse fees, yes, determination was an increment. We conscionable had a caller board, and the committee decided to reappraisal tuition to g...