The authorities of Lagos State University, LASU, yesterday gave a two-week ultimatum to part-time students at satellite campuses to settle their outstanding bills.

Henceforth, they warned, defaulters will forfeit their studentship.

Vice-Chancellor John Obafunwa gave the ultimatum yesterday in a press conference at the Ojo campus of the university.

He said only 5,333 students of about 36,000 on the external programmes, including those who had left the school, had updated their fees.

The VC said the development had necessitated the university shifting its harmattan semester examination earlier scheduled to hold between September 6 and November 1, and to end in 12 days.

He added that the institution could no longer wait beyond the two-week grace, beginning from yesterday, for those concerned to do the needful.

Obafunwa lamented what he described as a “terrible state of LASU external system” inherited by his administration in 2011.

He said, so far, 33,486 students from the external system had been graduated in the last two years, while several others who had shown up were discovered to be fake students because they could not provide genuine matriculation numbers.

According to him, there are still many who students presumed to be genuine but were yet to show up for reasons best known to them.