Reps move to stop payment of acceptance fee in tertiary institutions

The House of Representatives is seeking to abolish the payment of acceptance fees into tertiary institutions.

In a motion raised by Representative Chinedu Martins, he is asking the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities’ Commission to immediately remove the payments.

He attributed the poor access to tertiary education by Nigerians to the requirement for payment of the non-refundable acceptance fees as a condition for admission.

Honorable Martins expressed worry that if the practice is not checked, the poor in the country will be unable to access tertiary education, especially considering examples of schools demanding as high as N70,000 as admission fees, compared to the minimum wage of N30,000.