UI Ejects Medical Students From Hostel

Students of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan have been ordered to vacate their hostel after they staged a protest against what they described as unfair introduction of a professional training fee by the school authorities.

The students claimed that the fee, coupled with an increase in accommodation fee, was capable of making some of them abandon their medical training.

They said the university recently introduced the professional fee ranging from N75,000 to N100,000 per student, while accommodation fee in the hostel was raised to N40,000 per student.

Our correspondent learnt from a reliable source in the school that because of reduced funding from the Federal Government, the institution’s senate had approved an increase in various fees paid by the students while new levies were introduced.

From around N14,000, students in the school will now pay between N30,000 and N40,000 as accommodation fee per bed space.

At the Alexander Brown Hall, UCH, Ibadan, medical students were seen leaving the hostel on Sunday as a result of a directive from the school that they should vacate the hostel after staging a protest against the new fees.