By IKENNA ASOMBA & JUMOKE OLUOKUN

LAGOS – Following the release of  an additional list of admitted students it offered provisional admission for the 2011/2012 academic session, authorities of Lagos State University, LASU, have extended payment and registration deadline  for increased fees from December 16 till 30.

In a special bulletin by the university,  new and old students were mandated to pay in full, fees, ranging between N193,750 and N348,750; N25,000 and N33,250 respectively before the close of work on the new deadline.

The management, however, warned “new students, who fail to comply on or before the new dealine will automatically forfeit their admission, while old students, who fail to register may lose their studentship.”

On the extension, Public Relations Officer, Lagos State University Student Union, LASUSU,Mr Azeez Olateju, said the extension was due to a dialogue between the student union leadership and management.
Azeez advised new and old students to pay “as soon as possible.”

It was gathered that most old students had complied with the new directive, while a few of the freshers had complied, owing to the high side of their new fees.

Reacting, Pelumi, a fresher of Mass Communication, said she made full payment of N238, 750, before she could be given her pin for registration.

…as Jakande urges Fashola to reduce  fees

Former Lagos State Governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, yesterday,  urged Governor Babatunde Fashola to review the hike in fees at Lagos State University, in the interest of peace.

Jakande, who made the appeal in an interview with newsmen, in Lagos, said the sudden increase was not encouraging, especially for a state that had been in the forefront of mass literacy campaign.

The government had in September hiked tuition fees for the institution from N25,000 to N350,000.

Jakande said, “I am pleading with the governor to review the new fees, so that our heritage would not be destroyed.”

Jakande, whose administration established the institution in 1983, said the high fees would affect the children of the poor.

He said: “Before now, poor people have been struggling to see their children through school, the increase in fees will affect their children.”