The University Of Abuja has been shut indefinitely
following a protest by students on the two campuses.
The institution was closed down
on Monday by the University’s Governing Council while the students were ordered
out of the hostels and campuses.
The university, which has been in
existence for almost three decades, had been enmeshed in a series of crises,
which had also impeded its growth.
It was gathered that an
industrial action recently embarked upon by a faction of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities in the university also contributed to the crisis in the
institution.
Some of the students, who took
part in the protest at the Gwagwalada mini- campus, said they were chased out
of the campus and the school put under lock and key.
At the main campus, notices were
placed on all notice boards in each department, ordering every student to leave
the school immediately.
The notice, signed by the
Registrar, Mohammed Modibbo, read, “I am directed to inform you that given the
situation in the university, the Vice Chancellor has approved that the
university be closed down until further notice.
“You are therefore directed to
vacate the university until further development is communicated to you.”
As of the time of filing this
report,some of the students were still packing their luggage and heading home.
The Director of Information Unit
of the university, Waziri Garba, confirmed the closure of the school, saying it
was shut down over the protest by the students, who were agitating for the
conduct of their semester examination.
“The school was shut down because
the students were demonstrating and demanding the conduct of examination, but
examination is not something you demand through demonstration,” he stated.
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