The Students University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu protested in the school main campus yesterday over alleged increment in their school fees.
After a while peace rain due to the intervention of security operatives who arrived on the scene early otherwise the would have been violence.
At UNN yesterday academic activities were paralyzed due to the restrictions from security operatives including soldiers.
Report form eyewitnesses says that the school authority newly introduce an additional N12, 000 internet fees per student and also increased other fees in the schools, adding that they are forced to pay for Identity card always.
What trigger the protest is that the students wonder paying for internet when over 80 per cent of them had no laptops, insisting that the fee should be exmepted.
According to Comrade Sunday Okafor, the Senate President of the Student Union Government of UNN, the students were out to express their dissatisfaction over the compulsory internet fees.
He also advised the university management to make the internet fee optional on the ground that most students were yet to acquire laptops.
The SUG boss, however, advised the students to embrace dialogue and assured them that they were negotiating with the authorities of the institution.
After a while peace rain due to the intervention of security operatives who arrived on the scene early otherwise the would have been violence.
At UNN yesterday academic activities were paralyzed due to the restrictions from security operatives including soldiers.
Report form eyewitnesses says that the school authority newly introduce an additional N12, 000 internet fees per student and also increased other fees in the schools, adding that they are forced to pay for Identity card always.
What trigger the protest is that the students wonder paying for internet when over 80 per cent of them had no laptops, insisting that the fee should be exmepted.
According to Comrade Sunday Okafor, the Senate President of the Student Union Government of UNN, the students were out to express their dissatisfaction over the compulsory internet fees.
He also advised the university management to make the internet fee optional on the ground that most students were yet to acquire laptops.
The SUG boss, however, advised the students to embrace dialogue and assured them that they were negotiating with the authorities of the institution.
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