N386,000 Unity College fee is scam, ministry warns parents

The Federal Ministry of Education has denounced a fraudulent papers circulating among parents, purportedly from the Office of the Director, Senior Secondary Education Department, claiming that approved fees for Federal Unity Colleges (FUCs) are N386,000.00, which contradicts the ministry’s established fees.

The ministry’s Director of Senior Secondary Education, Hajia Binta Abdulkadir, successful a connection connected Saturday, said that the papers is fraudulent and fake, arsenic it did not emanate from the Office of the Director, Senior Secondary Education Department.

Abdulkadir said the highest interest paid by students successful FUCs is N100,000, lone for caller students, covering boarding, uniforms, textbooks, and different items, portion tuition remains free, noting that the tuition fees successful each FUCs are free.

“Again, the purported papers did not transportation the close code of the Office of the Director, Senior Secondary Education Department, including the galore flaws and unspeakable spelling mistakes observed successful respect of immoderate items connected the bill,” Abdulkadir said.

She added that the papers is an effort to dispersed misinformation and origin disorder among the public, and parents of FUCs, particularly the caller parents.

The ministry stated that the N386,000.00 interest was a scam and advised the nationalist to disregard the document.

It added that immoderate idiosyncratic who is successful uncertainty astir the FME-approved fees and charges for FUCs should cheque the website of the Ministry oregon interaction immoderate of the Principals of the FUCs nearest to them.