Public Universities Pay More

As against public opinion and general knowledge that privately owned universities charge more from their students for tuition, the Pro-Chancellor of Lead City University in Ibadan, Prof Jide Owoeye, has said that fees are in fact cheaper at private universities.

He claims that the government pays up to N700,000 for Arts and Social Science related courses and up to N1.5m for Medical and Technological courses but nobody knows because the government subsidizes those universities.

University of Ibadan Heading for Crisis

The Office of the bursar at the University Ibadan would be vacant on the 18^th of September 2015 as the current occupant would be retiring. By tradition, any prospective applicant must not be over 60 years of age as at the time of appointment, in this case, the 19^th of September and must have had 21 years post-qualification experience. But sources have it that there are moves in some top management quarters to appoint a person with just five years’ experience as the principal financial officer of the university who would be responsible to the Vice-Chancellor.

All opposition to the move are fast-mobilizing and in top gear to resist the plan.