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Stakeholders frown over increase in fees of Unity schools
By: Adeboye Ado, Akure Fountain Newsbreaker Following the recent increase in the fees of Federal Government Colleges otherwise known as Unity Schools, stakeholders have berated upward review of the school fees. The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education had increased the school fees of new students into Federal Colleges to ₦100,000. “The latest fees/charge increment will affect virtually all aspects and activities of the school, including tuition and boarding fees, uniform, text books, deposit, exercise books, prospectus, caution fee, ID card, stationery, clubs and societies, sports, extra lesson, insurance, et al”, the government said in a statement yesterday. Speaking with PromptNews correspondent on Saturday, a retired Principal, Femi Afolabi, described the increment as an effort to outrightly make education unaffordable for the middle class in the country. Afolabi who argued that that if the government was sincere with its firm stance to reducing the leve...
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