LASU reads riot act to external students

 The authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU) yester­day read the riot act to students in its external system in the various campuses, saying they must pay their school fees within the next two weeks or forfeit their stu­dentship.

The management also said that in line with the Lagos State Government directive, the university’s external system would windup by 2016, add­ing that any student, who failed to complete his/her studies would cease to be its student.

The Vice Chancellor of LASU, Prof John Oba­funwa gave the warning during a media briefing attended by the technical partners of the external system and principal of­ficers of the institution. It declared that as at last Thursday, only 5, 333 ex­ternal system students out of over 30,000 had paid their school fees.

Obafunwa and the Di­rector of the LASU Exter­nal System, Prof Tajudeen Abanikanda, explained that the briefing was not in reaction to the recent protest at the governor’s office by some concerned students, stating that those who stormed Alausa were not their students.

The VC said the deci­sion to give the affected external system students two weeks ultimatum was taken during a meeting of the stakeholders of the university’s external sys­tem held recently.

He disclosed that ma­jority of the students who claimed to have completed their studies at the external system had several out­standing results or have not paid their school fees.

“Many people are claiming to be our stu­dents yet they have no re­cords to show. The univer­sity ICT has no records of them. It is common to hear people say they graduated from LASU with nothing to present as evidence. It is either they are not our students or they have out­standing results.

“Our ICT asked students to update their bio data in­cluding photographs, only few complied. Some even claimed to be our students, yet they have not paid school fees for years. We were supposed to conduct the Harmattan semester exam on September 6, only to discover that over 200 had paid the school fees. They are not sup­posed to receive lectures. When they have not paid the school fees, techni­cally, they are not our stu­dents.”

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