The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University tells all students to discard rumours of School hike.

The attention of the authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile - Ife, have been drawn to a news item as
published on page 8 of the Sun Newspaper of Tuesday, 27th
June, 2017, captioned: "38 Varsities increase tuition fees,"
where OAU was listed among the Universities that have
increased their tuition fees.
A release by the Public Relations Officer of the University,
Abiodun Olarewaju, stated that although there may be paucity of
funds from the Federal Government in running the Institutions of
higher learning, which might have prompted some Universities
to upwardly review their fees, but the situation in OAU is quite
different. For the avoidance of doubt, there is no meeting, either
of the University management or Senate, where the fee
increment was announced, and the Vice Chancellor of the
University, Professor Tope OGUNBODEDE, has not contemplated
on increasing any fee in OAU. In actual fact, his administration
is poised to making the welfare of staff and students a topmost
priority.
Accordingly, the Vice Chancellor has advised the students, their
parents and, or guardians to completely disregard as unfounded
rumour, the said news item. He added that the administrative
and academic affairs of OAU will not be run in secret, stating
that he will not renege on his pledge of running a very open and
transparent administration.
The release, therefore, urged the gentle men of the press to
crosscheck their facts before publishing stories that are capable
of plunging the Universities into avoidable crisis.