Students of the Kaduna State University on Tuesday blocked the main road leading to the Government House in Kaduna, the state capital, in protest over an increase in their tuition fees.
The state-owned tertiary institution recently announced an increase of its annual school fee of N26,000 by almost 600 per cent.
According to the proposed new tuition fees, indigenous students studying social science courses are to pay about N150,000 while their counterparts in medicine and other science courses will pay between N170,000 and above as annual fees.
In quest for their demands to be met, the students blocked the road leading to the Kaduna State Government House displaying placards with various inscriptions and chanting songs of solidarity.
The students also observed their Suhr Muslim prayers (2pm) on the road.
They blocked all the major roads to the government house, thereby preventing the free flow of traffic. They insisted that their demands must be met by the state government.
Security operatives were also on the ground to ensure that there is no breakdown of law and order.
The students lamented that the hike in some courses to N300,000 and N400,000 from N36,000 will force many of them to drop out of school.
They, therefore, demanded a reversal of the tuition fees.
They called on the state Governor Nasir El-Rufai to Education to intervene in the matter.
The population of Kaduna State University is about 19,000, close to 17,000 of them are indigenes.