COLLECT UNAUTHORIZED FEES AND GET SACKED- MINISTER WARNS PRINCIPALS

COLLECT UNAUTHORIZED FEES AND GET SACKED: MINISTER WARNS PRINCIPALS

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR PRESS FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
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COLLECT UNATHORIZED FEES, GET SACKED – EDUCATION MINISTER WARNS PRINCIPALS
1. Following incessant media reports that some Principals of Federal Government Unity Colleges are collecting school fees well over the amount authorized by the Ministry, Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu has warned Principals of Unity Colleges to adhere strictly to authorized fees or get sacked.
2. Speaking today in his office in Abuja, Malam Adamu Adamu advised parents whose wards are in Unity Colleges to report any infraction to this directive to the Federal Ministry of Education for appropriate sanctions.
3. The Minister said one of the pillars of his Ministerial Action Plan“Education for Change”, which will soon be launched is to make education accessible and affordable to all Nigerians, maintaining that he will not tolerate any act capable of sabotaging this goal.
4. According to the Minister, time has come for Nigerians to enjoy the benefits of Change which they voted for and that he will stop at nothing to deliver same in the education sector.
5. Furthermore, the Minister said part of the reasons for the recent harmonization of fees in Unity Colleges was to ensure that parents pay averagely less as well as eliminate indiscriminate collections that made parents in some Unity Schools to pay much higher than their counterparts in other Unity Colleges.
6. Malam Adamu Adamu directed that all authorized cost items, including boarding fees must be communicated to parents in writing and copied to the Ministry before any payment is demanded, adding that any Principal who does otherwise will have his or herself to blame.
7. For the avoidance of doubt, the authorized schools fees for Unity Colleges for the 2016/2017 academic year has been placed on the Ministry’s website – www.education.gov.ng
8. Any school Principal who collects or has collected a penny outside the authorized fees as clearly stated must refund same to affected

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