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UNIBEN Denies Increasing School Charges For New Students, Opens School Fees Portal

Hendrix Oliomogbe 

Authorities of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have dispelled rumours making the rounds of an increase in school charges for any category of students.

In an official circular by its registrar, Mr Ademola Bobola on Sunday, November 23, 2025, the university announced the opening of its upgraded payment portal for newly admitted students for the 2025/2026 academic session.

He emphasized: “Students, parents/guardians and other stakeholders are by this medium informed that the university has consistently maintained the regime of school charges adopted in the previous sessions as applicable; hence, it has not effected any form of increase in the approved charges for all categories of students, including the current 2025/2026 academic session."

Mr. Bobola said that the institution's portal is now accessible to all 100-level students as well as newly admitted 200-level Direct Entry students.

For the payment of school charges for the new students, he advised them to go to portal.uniben.edu and click on Login Menu, after which they Login with their User ID (Student ID) and Password (their password).

Continuing, Mr. Bobola said that to pay their school charge, students should click on PAYMENT menu and then select SCHOOL CHARGES, under PAYMENT TYPE, then click on PROCESS PAYMENT button and follow the REMITA Payment instructions to conclude their payment.

The registrar advised students to use only the official payment link provided by the university.

He advised students and parents with enquiries, to contact the institution’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) Unit.


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