Lagos State University management has announced extended the deadline date for payment of acceptance other fees (where applicable) by the newly admitted students for the 2015/2016 academic session.

The initial deadline ended on Friday December 25, 2015. According to the university authority, candidates that are yet to make payments are therefore implored to do so before the new deadline, which expires midnight of Sunday, January 3. “All new students are thereby enjoined to utilize this opportunity to pay the prescribed fees on or before the new deadline,” the management said.

Earlier in December 2015, the school authorities reduced the acceptance fees from N20,000 to N10,000. President of Students Union (LASU-SU), Adeyemi Onikoro said the university authority updated its website and advised new students to pay N10, 000. “From our investigation, new students have started paying the N10, 000,” he said.

He noted that in November 2015, the school management increased the acceptance fee for new students from N10,000 to N20,000 and indigeneship fee from N1,000 to N5,000, but the Student Union demanded a reversal to prevent students’ unrest.

According to Onikoro, while the acceptance fee has been reverted, the indigeneship fee is yet to be reversed, adding that the union is still negotiating with the management on reversal of the indigeneship fee.

“The implication of a refusal by the management is that Lagos State indigenes will be paying more than non-indigenes in their state-owned university. This is not an issue affecting students alone but the National Association of Lagos Indigenes Students (NALIS) and the Lagos State traditional rulers will also seek redress,” he said.

While commending the management for reversing the acceptance fee, Onikoro urged them to also reverse the indigeneship fee, stressing failure would result to community rancour.