Imo state Governor rochas Okorocha yesterday announced a 50% reduction in tuition fees of non-indigenes in state - owned tertiary institutions.

The governor said his administration would see the balance as an extension of its free education programme.

The gesture is for non-indigenes in Imo state university, Imo state polytechnic and college of health science, Amaigbo, whose counterparts of Imo origin are enjoying free education.