BY MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state on Friday justified the reason for the increase in tuition fees of tertiary institution in the state, saying “the increased fee does not really cover the personnel cost of the each of the institutions.”

Fashola however described the nomination of Mrs. Roli George, the wife of former deputy chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George to represent Lagos state at the National Population Commission, NPC, “as an insult on residents of Lagos state who voted for President Goodluck Jonathan at the last election.” The governor who spoke at the seventh executive and legislative parley held at the Golden Tulip, Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos themed ‘Consolidating Democracy for Service to the People’.

On the increment, he said “Before we took that decision, the state executive council carefully considered the current state of infrastructure and personnel in the institutions vis-a-vis what it should be. And also considered the cost of properly funding the institution as against what currently accrue to it from all sources.”

In order to supplement the hike in tuition fees for students, the governor said that the state government will continue its scheme of scholarship and bursary as it is done all over the world for indigent students.