Students had stoutly resisted the university’s previous hike in fees, which proposed to raise fees from N9,800 and N7,800 fees to N24,000 and N22,000 respectively. In the end, the management and the students reached a compromise of N14,000 and N12,000 respectively.
“Why are they using it again to ask students to pay more?” one student asked, promising that the student body would resist the latest increase when classes resume.
During the previous increase, UNIBEN’s Vice Chancellor, Osauiki Oshondi, pleaded with the students to accept the increase in NHIS fees in order to help the institution to bridge a revenue shortfall that arose from the cancellation of the university’s revenue-earning part-time programs.
“The N400 per student is a rip-off that will be resisted upon our students’ resumption,” said a student leader, adding, “N400 each from 40,000 students is a lot of money.”
Another student stated that the UNIBEN administration claimed that the new increase was a directive from the NHIS to all federal academic institutions. “But we doubt it. That’s why they announced the increase during our vacation period,” he said, vowing student resistance.
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