The students of the University of Ibadan have taken to the streets today, Monday 13th May, 2024 to protest hike in fees and harsh economic condition in Nigeria. According to Victor Igbudu, the NANS Public Relations Officer quoted in the Punch, the 2023/2024 academic session fee increase ranging from #230,000 - #412,000 is unacceptable to the students. Based on this, the students during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Student Union Government (SUG) of the school voiced out their grievances in protests with placards. The students insisted that the fee increment is outrageous at the face of the severe economic challenges that parents and guardians face in the country. What appears to be in reaction to the protests, a team of soldiers from Operation Burst arrested some four students, and took them to the barracks. This has elicited condemnations from a human rights group called Take It Back Movement which posted on X condemning the arrest as despicable. They ...
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