UNILAG students deny being charged N5,000 for dockets

Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, are being asked to pay between N5,000 and N10,000 for dockets before being allowed to sit for the ongoing examinations, investigations by our correspondent have revealed nothing of such is the case.

Some people have alleged that some UNILAG departments demanded that students pay up to N10,000 for a docket to enter the examination hall.

However, checks by Vanguard showed that students are only mandated to pay between N500 and N2,500 for dockets

Also, fees charged at departmental levels for the ongoing semester were not usually up to N10,000.

In a chat with Vanguard, some students denied such allegations.
According to Kingsley Eze, the school management or department did not demand that students pay such an outrageous amount.

His words: “No, it can not be that students are asked to pay N10,000 for the docket. However, I heard some departments charge as much as N2,500 for a docket. In my own department in the Faculty of Arts, we just paid N500 for the docket. And not that it is compulsory, but that we pay it.”

When asked if one would be refused entrance into the examination hall if such a student did not pay the above fees. Eze answered: “Not at all.”
A student representative in one of the departments in the Faculty of Management Science explained that the dues students were complaining about were dues expected to have been paid since the beginning of the semester.

According to the 300-level student, who craved anonymity, “These dues are required since the beginning of the semester. And it is not up to N10,000. For my department, the total dues we are expected to pay this semester is just N9,000. Here is the breakdown. We have Faculty dues at N1,000 and departmental dues at N2,000. The Faculty has the Management Science Association dues, which is N2,000. Then my main department, Actuarial Science, is N2,000. Then my club is N500. So, the total is N9,000.

“We were not charged the N500 for the docket for the semester. So if one has paid them from the semester, these dues should not be an issue.”