Ebonyi State: Parents Raise The Alarm As David Umahi Fed University Jerk Up School Fees To N1.5m
From Omaka OKOH, Abakaliki
Parents at David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu in Ebonyi state have raised the alarm over the increase of school fees to about N1.5m for the 2025/2026 academic session.
A document obtained by THE BEAGLE NEWS showed that students in the departments of Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Physics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Biology/Biotechnology, Industrial Mathematics, Public health and Microbiology/Parasitology will pay N550,500 as school fees for the 2025/2026 academic session.
The document issued by the Bursary department of the university further showed that new students will pay the sum of N1.5m while Nursing Science and Pharmacy students are to pay N1m each as school fees.
According to the document, students of Medical Lab, Optometry, Physiotherapy, Dentistry and others are to pay N750,000 each as school fees.
Checks by THE BEAGLES NEWS revealed that at the NELFUND portal, the school fees is about N120. 000 per session while the internal circular is saying a different thing.
Further checks revealed that all the staff of the institution are paid by federal government like every other federal institutions.
It was gathered that while other federal universities' undergraduates pay between N100,000 and N200,000, DUFUHSU pay between N750, 000 and N1.5m.
New updated school fees for various departments
Further checks revealed that at DUFUHSU, if a student fails any professional exam, he or she will pay 50% of the school fees to re-sit the professional examination.
Reacting to the development, some of the parents, who spoke to THE BEAGLES NEWS off record, expressed dismay at he high school fees being charged by the institution even as it is a federal university.
According to them, they feel disappointed at the way and manner they institution increases school fees as if they are private university.
They wondered how some parents, especially from Ebony state, will cope in this harsh economy, calling on the ministry of education and federal government to look into it urgently to save some students from being withdrawn.
The parents wondered why a university that was built with Ebonyi state government money is turning out to be out of reach of Ebonyians even as the federal government has taken over the institution.
"It is not acceptable that a university that was built with tax-payers money has become unaffordable for Eboyians. How can a federal university charge such an exorbitant school fee? What is the difference between DUFUHSU and a private university?
"How can our own federal university be different from others? We call on management to look into it or we may be forced to withdraw our children from there and take them to another federal University," some of the parents said.
