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The coalition of Northern Groups, Students' Wing (CNG-SW) has threatened to shut down the region over the recent hike in tuition fees by tertiary institutions across the Northern states. The group also demanded the Northern elite and other stakeholders to speak up against the passage of the Education Loan Bill as the sustainability of the loan is not guaranteed. The group has taken time to assess the dangers the hike in tuition would pose to Nigerians, especially to the Northern region, which has been abandoned to the mercy of rampaging banditry and insurgency. The North is being held to ransom by bandits, and the hike in tuition is part of a calculated plan to weaken the region educationally and pauperise it economically. This will lead to massive dropouts and return millions of youth to the streets, while returning students will have to give up their dreams of higher education.