During a radio programme held at UNILAG, Governor of Lagos State-elect, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, said: “‘I want to assure all the students of LASU, we would not increase school fees.” Lagos State University (LASU) school fees had been reduced by the governor Babatunde Fashola administration from N170, 750 to N25, 000. On his plan for higher education in Lagos State, Ambode stated that what is worrisome now is the quality of graduates Nigerian institutions of higher learning are churning out. As stated by him, the kind of attention government has been giving to higher education necessitate the low quality of graduates churned out every year. ‘’I am happy we have taken over the centre now,” he also stated. “We have a major programme for higher education in our manifesto; we will pursue that together with the national government.” On LASU fees, he reiterated: “If there is anything we must do, we would sit down together and see what can be done, and even review the fees they are paying now. I am a product of a lot of Ivy League schools. I have been to different schools, and I understand and know the kind of standard and quality of education I have been able to benefit from those schools. “If we say Lagos is a centre of excellence, we must then strive, deliberately, to ensure that whatever we are providing in terms of infrastructure, curriculum and content, the students actually benefit, because they are actually the future leaders of this country. “The truth is that if we don’t start a succession plan from our higher institutions, then we are joking, because it is not about the people who are almost getting to 50 or 60 years and are going away. It is actually about the younger ones whose capacity we really need to start to build and then allow them to take over from us. I am going to take advantage of my social capital, being in the party at the centre, to allow us use it for the improvement of higher education in Lagos State.”
