What changed
Parents in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Katsina and Benue are facing school bills well beyond tuition. Those charges include textbooks, graduation ceremonies, costumes, feeding, extra lessons, photographs, parties and other activities.
Why it matters
The cost of schooling is arriving as a stack of smaller demands, not one neat fee. A family may have to pay for learning materials, food, lessons and ceremonies separately, making the real cost of keeping a child in school harder to see and harder to plan for.
That matters because these charges cover both essentials and optional-looking events. Textbooks and feeding sit alongside photographs, costumes and parties, but each demand can still weigh on a household budget. The sharper point is that “tuition” may no longer describe what parents must actually find to keep pace with school life.
The scale of the problem remains unclear: the charges have not been quantified, and their effect on enrolment has not been established. But their appearance across five locations shows a pressure parents are encountering in more than one part of Nigeria.
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