Union directs OAU students not to pay N15,000 portal charge

The Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has actually directed that the N15,000 portal gain access to and upkeep charge need to not be paid. The union directed trainees to suspend all payments on the university website pending more conversations with the school management.

The union provided the regulation in a declaration on Tuesday and required the suspension of all balloting activities up until the matter is solved.

“All trainees, consisting of Freshers and STAYLITES, are encouraged to stop all payments on the University website (school charges, balloting payments and associated charges) up until additional notification,” it stated.

The union likewise required that the university management delay the proposed balloting workout and seek advice from the acknowledged Students’ Union management and other appropriate agents before continuing.

“If management earnings without post ponement, trainees will hold a tranquil presentation throughout school tomorrow, November 11, 2026,” it stated, prompting trainees to stay calm and abide by its regulations, guaranteeing them that additional updates would be offered as conversations with the management advanced.

The advancement followed a 24-hour demand by the Great Ife League of Presidents, an association of department, professors and native association presidents, requiring that the Students’ Union openly mention its position on the N15,000 charge.

In a declaration on Sunday, the association turned down the charge, declaring that university management presented it without appropriate assessment with trainees, and criticised the union’s management for staying quiet on the matter, explaining its silence as a failure to represent the trainees who chose it.

The association cautioned that if the union stopped working to react within 24 hours, trainees would stage a tranquil presentation at the union’s structure and contacted the university management to withdraw the charge and speak with trainees before presenting more cost boosts.