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UNIPORT: No Life Was Lost During Students’ Protest – Police

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The Rivers Police Command on Monday denied that there were casualties during a protest by students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT).

 

The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt.

 

He said that there was no casualty on the part of the police or students during the violent protest by the students over a “no tuition fee-no examination fee” policy introduced by the UNIPORT management.

 

“No student or policeman lost their lives during the UNIPORT protest.

“The policeman reported dead had nothing to do with UNIPORT, because the deceased policeman was shot dead by armed robbers in an isolated case.

“Similarly, no university student was killed to the best of my knowledge.

“All roads earlier blocked by the protesting students have been reopened by the police,” he said.

 

Muhammad said the police was cooperating with UNIPORT management to ensure that normalcy was restored on campus and host communities.

Earlier, UNIPORT’s Deputy Registrar (Information), Dr Williams Wodi, told NAN that two persons, including a policeman lost their lives in the violent protest.

The spokesman said the policeman was shot dead at a junction along the East West inter-state road, close to the university.

“Also, another person whose identity had not been confirmed was also shot dead on Monday during the protest which lasted for several hours,” Wodi said.

NAN reports that management of UNIPORT had announced the closure of the university for one month following the students’ protest over new tuition fee policy on Monday in Port Harcourt.

UNIPORT management had in 2015, adopted a policy which made tuition fee a prerequisite for students’ participation in examination, a policy which compelled defaulting students to repeat a whole academic session.

The protest which initially started on a peaceful note, later turned violent with students destroying school property worth millions of naira.

They demanded the withdrawal of the policy, which they argued, was unfair to poor students.

 

(NAN)

Protest: Kwarapoly Orders Students To Proceed On Break

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The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has directed students to proceed on a semester break following students’ protest over the N5000 payment for late registration.

 
As early as 8am yesterday, students barricaded the entrance to the institution and other major parts of the state capital in continuation of the protest.

 
During the protest, scores of the students reportedly sustained injuries during a clash with the police.

 
In a statement by Deputy Registrar, information and Communications of Kwarapoly, Allh Moshood Amuda asked the students to proceed on mid-semester break.
Though, no reason was given for the management’s decision, it might not be unconnected with the violent protest by some students which started on Tuesday.

 
The management equally advised parents and guardians to ensure that their children and wards vacate the institution’s campus as directed.

 
Recall that there was pandemonium in Ilorin, Kwara State on Tuesday morning as hundreds of students, took to major streets to protest the management’s decision to charge N10,000 fee as penalty for late registration.

 
It was gathered that the management of the institution had fixed December 11, 2015 as deadline for the registration of students with the calculation that whoever fails to meet the deadline would be made to pay N10,000 as extra fee.

 

 

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LASU Students Union Protests Increment In Acceptance Fee

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The Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) on Tuesday urged the institution’s Authorities to revert the increment of the newly-admitted students’ acceptance fee from N20,000 to N10,000.

 

Mr Adeyemi Onikoro?, LASUSU Chairman, told newsmen in Lagos that the reduction should be with immediate effect.

 

He said that such policy, if not reverted, may lead to a looming crisis from the students.

 

Onikoro said that the increment was another strategy devised by ?the authorities to exploit the students and a technical way of increasing the school fees.

“Such a policy was initiated sometime ago at the Obafemi Awolowo Universit?y (OAU), Ile-ife, but it caused crisis which led to the closure of the university for six months.

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“We do not want such to happen in LASU, so that the academic calendar will not be distorted; that is why we are calling on the new governing council and the acting Vice-chancellor? to do the needful.

“Any attempt to sustain the increment will be vehemently opposed by the students,” he said.

According to Onikoro, the authorities need to reverse ?the increment so that it does not add to the existing problems already on ground between the staff unions and the management.

He noted that the acceptance fee for the new students was ?initially N10, 000 and N25, 000 for tuition fee, while returning students were to pay N25, 000 as tuition fee.

“This means that all the new students need to pay a total of N35, 000 and nothing more,” he said.

All efforts to speak with the University’s Registrar, Mr Akin Lewis and the Dean of Students Affairs, Prof. Kabir Akinyemi, on the issue proved abortive, as? calls put through to their lines were unanswered.

 

(NAN)