UNILORIN staff get 25% school charges rebate for their children
The management of the University of Ilorin has announced a 25% special rebate on the school charges payable by their biological children.
In a memo dated December 7, 2023 and signed by the Registrar of the University, Mr Mansur Adeleke Alfanla, a copy of which was made available to UNILORIN BULLETIN, the management said that the development was informed by the need to alleviate the economic hardship being faced by staff of the University and boost their welfare.
The Registrar, said that the special rebate takes off in the 2022/2023 academic session, and it covers both the newly admitted and returning students of the University who must, however, should not be more than a maximum of four children per staff member.
Mr Alfanla explained that only children who have been documented in the staff personnel files would be considered for the purpose of the rebate.
Concerned staff members were, therefore , enjoined to fill a goggle form sent to their email and submit same and appropriately on or before Friday, December 8, 2023.
These development elicited positive reactions from a cross section of staff members of the University who spoke to UNILORIN BULLETIN over the weekend.
They commended the management of the University for introducing the rebate, which they said would be of great relief to them, particularly at this time of economic crunch.
Mr Sunday Fadesire, an Operational Manager at the University’s Computer Services and Information Technology Unit (COMSIT), said that the rebate is welcomed and timely.
He, however, enjoined the management of the University to bring more relief to the staff members of the institution who are feeling the pain of the present economic hardship.
In his reaction, a Senioir Lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication, Dr Oba Abdulkadir Laaro, commended the management of the University for introducing the rebate.
Dr Laaro equally commended the leadership of the institution’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for championing the introduction of the rebate, which, he said, would encourage more staff members to enroll their children in the University.
He encouraged the University management to renew the offer of free data on monthly basis to all staff members of the University and also provide free transportation to employees of the University as done a few weeks ago as he said that the support would also go a long way in stimulating productivity and industrial harmony.
On the part of a Deputy Director at the Academic Planning Unit of the University, Mr Gidado AbdulRasheed Dauda, “the rebate is a very good imitative by the management. Things are hard and no palliative is small. 25% of the charges is not small and I commend the management for coming up with it”.
He, however, appealed to the management to grant staff who don’t have children studying at the University what he callede “13th month salary”.
Also speaking, a Lecturer at the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Dr Haleema Funmilayo Babamale, explained that the rebate is a big relief to the potential beneficiaries.
Dr Babamale expressed the hope that the University would continue to have the capability to sustain the rebate, which she described as “a fascinating policy”, saying that it will be another great feather on the cap of the Better By Far University.
Mr Ahmed Yakub, a Quantity Surveyor at the University’s Works Department, said that he was happy that the prayers of many of his colleagues had been answered with the new welfare package.
He noted that staff who have one or two children undergoing one course or the other at the University would no longer go on borrowing before settling their children’s school charges.