Subsidy: Wesley University slashes tuition fee by 50%

The administration of Wesley University, located in the town of Ondo in the state of Ondo, has announced a 50% cut in tuition.

According to the institute, the development was a part of its efforts to advance humans.

This was revealed on Monday in a statement provided to our correspondent by the university’s vice chancellor, Prof. Samuel Obeka.

He asserts that the institution’s departments of Natural and Applied Sciences, Education, Agriculture, Finance and Investment, and Economics are the ones offering some of the programs with a 50% tuition discount.

The VC outlined how despite the affected programs’ importance to national growth, students do not frequently enroll in them because of their “expensive tuition fees and supposed abstract or ambiguous nature.”

“The gesture was implemented to encourage parents and guardians to permit their children and wards to enjoy the benefits and endowments inherent in the institution,” the speaker stated. This is also done to fulfill the commitment made when our institution first opened to provide all Nigerians with opportunities for professional and academic development and, in turn, help foster national development.

As part of its attempts to foster an effective and strong national ethos and the effective implementation of national development objectives, the Methodist Church of Nigeria judged it wise to create Wesley University, Ondo.

According to the Don, the university has nine colleges and 44 academic programs that have all been accepted and certified by the National Universities Commission.

He stated that some of the programs were in the colleges of law, the arts, education, natural and applied sciences, environmental design and management, agriculture, food science and technology, health sciences, and social and management sciences.

Wesley University also operates a school for postgraduate studies, a school for continuing education, and an institute for agricultural research and training, all of which are prepared to produce the knowledgeable and skilled labor force needed to advance Nigeria’s efforts to make significant developmental strides and to secure her place among the comity of developed and progressive nations.

He stated: “These colleges provide programs in community health, early childhood education, special education, library and information science, law, and nursing science.”

Obeka pointed out, however, that rather than raising tuition at the publicly funded universities, the government should first address the elimination of fuel subsidies and the practicality of the suggested palliative measures.