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Federal Executive Council (FEC) has directed all heads of Federal Universities to enforce ban on collection of school fees, saying that the law banning payment of fees was still in force.
Minister of state for Education, Anthony Anwuka disclosed this Wednesday while briefing State House Correspondents, after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
This is just as FEC also approved the insurance of provisional license for the establishment of Skyline university in Kano, Kano State.
Anwuka disclosed that the application for the establishment of the university by Skyline university has been on for the last year years, adding that ” the National Universities Commission (NUC ) , “after going through the rigorous verification of the claims as to the application, sent a recommendation to the ministry of education, which in turn presented in the request to FEC and it approved.”
“They wanted the NUC through the ministry to provide a status report to FEC on all the nation’s universities in terms of their performance, be they private, state or federal. We stressed on quality of staff on the various universities”
According to him, ” FEC also discussed the issue of school fees in the various universities and noted that as of law, no federal university should charge tuition fees. And, we understand some universities now charge fees per course unit and we are going to make sure that we investigate that properly and stop it.
He however stated that students can pay other auxiliary fees but not in excess.
” Various university councils and management should be able to fix what fees students should pay that is affordable and acceptable to the students.
“That is the position. The federal government does not determine fees for private and state universities, they only take responsibility for fees paid in the federal universities”
Minister of state transportation, aviation – Heidi Sirika, also disclosed that FEC approved procurement of equipment for the completion of control towers in some airports that included Maiduguri, Akure, Benin, Illorin, Kaduna and Ibadan, at the cost of N1.365, 364, 458.75.
The procurement, BusinessDay gathered, was done in 2011. But from 2011, government stopped funding a particular procurements, despite the importance attached to the projects.
” So, we provided for it in 2017 so that we can complete it. And council has graciously approved to complete those control towers which will enhance communications and security of our airspace.
