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Late Registration: 'Impossible to afford': UniAbuja Students React to 5k Late Registration Fee

The University of Abuja students react negatively to 5k late registration fee released on the school portal by the school management This comes after the statement released by the Deputy Registrar (Academics) on the school email community on Thursday The statement titled, 'Notice to all students on 2019/2020 registration'. The statement read 'Registration and fees payment for 2019/2020 academic session has ended'. "All students who paid their fees but have not registered can go ahead and complete teir registration as the portal has been extensively opened for them for a period of one week only" the statement stated. The portal opened for late registration with 5k charges The new charges has cause a lot of reaction on social media  thousand of UniAbuja students express dissatisfaction with the new charges  A 400 level students who refused to disclose is identity describe the charges as hash policy that is not favouring students, imagine no registration and paym...

TETfund Applauds FIRS for Increased Remittance of Education Tax

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETfund, has commended the present management of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, over increased remittance of education tax to it Its Executive Secretary, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, said this when he led the management team of his organisation in appreciation to FIRS in Abuja. Bogoro said: “It is good to acknowledge the goose that lay the golden egg as we are very comfortable in this house. Each time we meet in FIRS this is what we tell ourselves. This is because we witnessed the highest jump in the collection of the FIRS collection of two per cent of Education tax fund.” He added:“The management of TETfund and the Board of the trustee is very excited and we have agreed that I should lead the management team to come and formally expressed our appreciation”. “We are veritable partners in executing our mandate of applying the two per cent education tax which came to be in 1993 but the funds were applied in 1999 to 2010 under ETF. In 2011 it was refocu...