‘Tinubu sinking more Nigerian families into poverty’ — NDC reacts to ABU fee hike

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s medication of worsening economical hardship for Nigerian families pursuing the summation successful registration charges astatine Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria.

ABU’s revised charges for the 2026/2027 world league necessitate Nigerian undergraduate students to wage betwixt N143,000 and N298,000, depending connected their programme and level of study.

The caller charges are higher than the N62,000 to N84,000 paid nether the erstwhile schedule.

Reacting to the development, the NDC said the summation would spot further unit connected working-class families struggling to money their children’s assemblage education.

The enactment said galore parents could nary longer spend the outgo of higher acquisition nether the existent economical conditions.

“The take-home wage of galore working-class Nigerians who beryllium connected national institutions similar ABU to spot their children done higher acquisition cannot adjacent instrumentality them home, fto unsocial screen the caller interest increase,” the NDC said.

The enactment described the improvement arsenic different load connected students and families, blaming what it calle...