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AAU: NANS Protests Over 300 Per Cent School Fee Increment, Demands VC, SIT Sack
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EditorThe National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday protested an over 300 percent school fees increment at the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, (AAU) Ekpoma.
The students’ national body, while at the premises of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Edo State council demanded the reversal of the over three hundred percent increment, the sack of the Special Intervention Team(SIT), which tenure is said to have expired on the 24th of June,2023.
They also demanded the sack of the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Sonnie Adagbonyin
Speaking, NANS Vice President, Intercampus Affairs, Comrade Vanessa Egheahie, said should the Edo State Government refused to revert to the old fees paid by the students before the new increment, NANS would move its headquarters to AAU to enforce the reversal, lamentng tha students from poor parents cannot afford to go to school with the new charges.
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She said the new school fees makes AAU the most expensive public university in Nigeria, as law students are expected to cough out 741,5000, as against 185,000, while Medical Science students are to pay 638,000 as against 216 for new students.
“We are angry because the Edo State Government and the AAU Special Intervention Team (SIT) have increased the school fees for AAU students with over three hundred and sixty percent. Those who have right to increase fee are those who have worked to improve the infrastructure in the school.
“It is quite unfortunate that the state government has increased these fees making it impossible for poor people to go to school. What the management of the school is telling us is that before a salary earner in Edo State with just a child who wants his child to study law, he would have to work for 23 months before he can pay one level school fees for his child.
“It is not possible, remember that Edo is 78 percent civil service state. How can children of traders, civil servants and other low income earners pay this kind of school fees. With this, Edo State Government is telling us that it has low education policy and it cares not if we end on the street.”
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She also maintained that the SIT, whose tenure is to end on the 24th of June, 2023 has failed in its responsibility of managing and helping the institution to sort for fund, hence it should be dissolved by the Edo State Government.
“The Special Intervention Team (SIT) has failed in its responsibility, and we also have the Acting Vice Chancellor that is threatening students that if they cannot pay, they should look for universities that are cheap.
“We keep bragging that we are EdoBEST, this is Edo Nonsense. I want to beg our parents not to pay any charges or dues come Monday. We demand the sack of the SIT and the Acting Vice Chancellor,” she said
Also speaking, the Secretary General, NANS Zone B, Comrade Isaac Ogieva, said when the fee was increased, they went to the school management and pleaded that they should consider the poor ones in school, who are the ones sponsoring their education.
“When this fee was increased, we went to them and pleaded that they should consider the poor ones, as many students are the ones sponsoring their education and cannot afford these exorbitant fees.
“Where do you expect a poor parent to bring 700,000 or 600,000 at the case maybe to pay school fees,” He said.
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Court Remands Tenant For Setting Landlord’s House On Fire In Ibadan
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EditorAn Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Dickson Peter, be remanded in a correction facility for allegedly setting his landlord’s house on fire.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police charged the defendant with two counts of felony and arson.
The Magistrate, Mr M. Mudashiru, who did not take his plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in the Abolongo Correctional Facility, Oyo Town.
Mudashiru said the remand is pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
He adjourned the matter until July 23, 2024, for reference.
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Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Femi Oluwadare told the court that Peter, on April 18, at about 12:30 am, was alleged to have unlawfully set fire to the house of his landlord, Cepas Okeme, and destroyed properties worth N6.5 million.
Oluwadare said that after he set the building on fire, it also spread to the next house property belonging to Bose Ali ‘F’ and destroyed property worth N3.5 million.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.
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Officer Who Shot Man Dead During Fuel Queue Tumult Identified — Lagos Police
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May 2, 2024By
EditorThe Lagos State Police Command said it has identified the police officer who shot a young man, Toheeb Eniafe, at a petrol station on Wednesday.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this on Thursday.
He said, “The person behind the shooting has been identified as a police officer serving at Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos.
“Investigation is still ongoing and further findings will be made available.
“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is working with the family of the deceased to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice.”
Recall that Eniafe was shot on Wednesday at a petrol station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.
Eniafe was reported to have been shot dead while he and some others were resisting the move by some security agents to buy fuel without joining the queue.
The Delta State Police Command on Thursday paraded a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwo, for killing her one-year-old son.
The woman said she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.
Also paraded were fake alcoholic producers, murder, kidnapping suspects, and car snatchers among others.
Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abaniwonda Olufemi, frowned at the evil act perpetuated by the woman.
He said, “On April 28, 2024, a case of infanticide was reported at Oleh Division, that a suspect named Sofia Nkwor 24, from Isoko south LGA, dump her child of one year and four month old in a well along the road in Araya community Isoko south LGA.
“Children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating on the well. The mother Sofia Nkwor was immediately arrested and she stated that she dumped the child on 26th April 2024.
Confessing to the crime, Nkwo, said that she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.
On the current kidnappings and killings in Ika North-East and Ika South areas of the state where farmers were being kidnapped and killed by gunmen, CP Olufemi said the command had developed personnel for the area.
“We are aware of the security situation in the Ika area of the state, and I have deployed personnel and directed Area Commander to move into the area and curb the bushes.
“The command is also working with Edo state Command because you know the area is the boundary between Delta and Edo,” he added.
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