Nigeria, May 9 -- Kano State students at the Federal University Dutse in neighboring Jigawa State, on Wednesday, held a protest over the failure of the Kano State government to pay their tuition fees.

The students, who are members of the National Association of Kano State Students (NAKSS), said over 3,000 of them at the university have not paid the fees.

During the protest at the Government House in Kano, the students urged the state government to redeem its promise to help them pay the fees to enable them sit the first-semester examination.

The leaders of NAKSS in the school told reporters that Kano indigenes studying at FUD were allowed to sit the second-semester examination for the last academic session after the state government re...