UNI ABUJA STUDENT PROTEST OVER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TO MEET ACCREDITATION DEADLINE FOR SOME COURSES

University of Abuja Gate

  University of Abuja student on Monday protested the failure of the University Management to meet up with the six months period given to accredit some of its courses. The courses are Engineering, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

Some of the protesting students, who spoke to the Newsmen said the University Authority should be blamed for the delay in the accreditation process.The protesters, who are mainly students of engineering, claimed that other faculties were ahead of the Engineering Faculty in the accreditation process.

Protesting Student at School Gate

A 400-level male engineering student, who pleaded anonymity, said that the protest followed the failure of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. James Adelabu, to keep his word over the accreditation of some faculties.
“It will be wrong for the university management to say that the students are not patient enough, considering the fact that the promise was given since April by the vice chancellor.“As I speak to you, there are no equipment in our laboratory and the facilities are not enough to even invite the relevant authorities to commence the accreditation process,” he said.

He said the patience of the students had run thin considering the implication of the actions of the university management on the future of the students.

Reacting to claims by some of the students Information Officer of the University Waziri Garba, said efforts were being intensified by the university management to ensure the accreditation of all the faculties as promised by the vice chancellor. He said the accreditation of the Faculty of Engineering was capital intensive, adding that the protest followed a claim by the students that other faculties were ahead of engineering.

According to him, the process of inviting the Nigerian Universities Commission for resource verification had been concluded and the commission was being awaited for the exercise. Garba also dismissed reports that the University of Abuja had been closed down.