University of Calabar Students Protests 100% hike in tuition fees
Hundreds of placard-carrying students of the University of Calabar have taken to the streets of the capital city of Cross River State to protest against the increment of tuition fees of the school.
Lots of Nigerian universities including those ones owned by the federal government have increased their school fees to as high as 200%. The university has also joined its peers to increase the fees.
The students carried several placards with different inscriptions on them. Some went as far as saying, “the poor can also go to school, we don’t have to prostitute (sic) before we can pay school fees. Let the poor breathe”.
The inscription copied partly from President Bola Tinubu’s quote that the poor be allowed to breathe.
Another protester said that “education is not mental slavery”.
The protesting students blocked some roads making a gridlock to occur in the city of Calabar.
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