Pay Now Or Forfeit Your Admission, LASU Tells Students

Students in external campuses of Lagos State University, LASU, must pay their school fees within the next two weeks or forfeit their studentship, authorities in LASU have announced.


The university management also informed 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.

Disclosing this was the Vice Chancellor of LASU, Prof John Oba­funwa, during a media briefing attended by the technical partners of the external system and principal of­ficers of the institution.

According to Oba­funwa, as at last Thursday, only 5, 333 ex­ternal system students out of over 30,000 had paid their school fees.

It was gathered that 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.



Obafunwa however, stated that most of the students who claimed to have completed their studies at the external system had several out­standing results or have not paid their school feesMany 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 6 September, only to discover that only 200 had paid the school fees.

“Those who are yet to pay school fees are not supposed to receive lectures. When they have not paid the school fees, techni­cally, they are not our stu­dents,” the educationist said.

Also speaking, the Di­rector of the LASU Exter­nal System, Prof Tajudeen Abanikanda, explained that the media 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.

It would be recalled that Governor Babatunde Fashola announced the reversal of LASU school fees to the old rate of N25,000 during the last convocation of the institution in Lagos, western Nigeria.

Prior to the reversal of the tuition fees, LASU students had protested at the Lagos State Governor’s house in Alausa.

Barely two weeks after the reversal of students’ school fees, authorities in LASU said that they are ready to refund over N840 million to students who had paid the new fees before it was slashed.

The Lagos State University – also known as LASU – was established in 1983 by the enabling Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, for the advancement of learning and establishment of academic excellence.

The university caters for a population of over 61,000, enrolled in full-time and part-time programmes at the Diploma, Undergraduate and Postgraduate. Lagos State University (informally LASU), located in the city of Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria, is the only state university in the former British colony.

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