The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, condemned the arbitrary hike in tuition fees of schools of higher learning across the Northern states, threatening to mobilise students in the region to resist it.
Briefing journalists in Abuja at the end of its stakeholders meeting, the national coordinator of CNG’s Student Wing, Jamilu Charanchi, said the increase in tuition fees would increase the suffering of the people, especially in the North.
He argued that the trend where federal institutions such as Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi in the Northeast and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in the Northwest.
He said they recorded over 100 percent increase and state government-owned IBB University in the Northcentral had over 60 percent increase in the cost of tuition was worrisome.
