According to NANS South-West Zone Coordinator, Sunday Ashefon the students are protesting against the hike in fees of the Lagos State University (LASU).
About 200 of the students stormed the governor's office chanting songs and carrying placards with various inscriptions.
Some of the inscriptions read "Education is our Right,'' Fashola Reduce LASU fees'' and "What have the poor done wrong?''.
Reports say security details manning the governor's office gate had a hard time controlling the students as they attempted to gain access to the Government House.
Gov. Babatunde Fashola, however, later ordered that the protesters be allowed to come and express their grievances.
On their entry, Ashefon, who led the protest, described the increase in LASU fees from N25,000 to N250,000 as prohibitive.
He said the increase had taken its toll on the students of the institution as some of them had dropped out because they could not afford to pay.
Ashefon described the situation as appalling, saying Nigerian students want a reduction of the "arbitrary fees''.
"The fees are not just affordable; some of our colleagues have opted out of LASU simply because they cannot pay from N250, 000 to N350, 000 school fees.
"These prohibitively high fees are some of the highest paid by any university in the country. Children of the poor can no more attend LASU and this is sad.
"What Nigerian students want therefore, is nothing but reversal of the fees to the initial N25, 000. APC as a political party promises change, we want that change in LASU too,'' he said.
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