{"id":77611,"date":"2025-10-27T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77611"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:28:09","slug":"unimed-vc-dismisses-tuition-hike-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/unimed-vc-dismisses-tuition-hike-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIMED VC Dismisses Tuition Hike Rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"175\"><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"353\">The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, Prof. Ebunoluwa Adejuyigbe, has denied claims that the institution increased its tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"530\">Addressing journalists in Akure on Monday, Adejuyigbe described the viral reports as <em data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"466\">\u201cfalse and mischievous,\u201d<\/em> clarifying that no across-the-board fee hike was implemented.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"814\">The VC added that all official fee structures are available on the school\u2019s website, stressing that UNIMED\u2019s tuition remains competitive and subsidised by the Ondo State Government.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"816\" data-end=\"962\">On the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), she noted that 87 verified students were submitted last year but are still awaiting enrolment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"964\" data-end=\"1166\">Adejuyigbe also dismissed reports that the UNIMED Teaching Hospital in Akure had been taken over by FUTA, explaining that it was only a collaborative arrangement allowing shared use of facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, Prof. Ebunoluwa Adejuyigbe, has denied claims that the institution increased its tuition fees. Addressing journalists in Akure on Monday, Adejuyigbe described the viral reports as \u201cfalse and mischievous,\u201d clarifying that no across-the-board fee hike was implemented. The VC added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77613,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611\/revisions\/77613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}