The management of the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) has announced an indefinite closure of the institution, suspending academic activities following series of protests by students over the closure of its school fees portal and the introduction of a dress code for students.
The university, in a statement signed by the registrar, Mr Benjamin Joffa, on Wednesday, said that “all students are directed to vacate the university campuses and its facilities on or before 3.00 pm Wednesday, July 7, 2021.
Tribune Online gathered that as a result of alleged poor funding of the university by the state government, the institution has taken its fundraising drive beyond limits, forcing all students to pay schools fees within a stipulated date or have their admission withdrawn.
Some students who spoke under conditions of anonymity claimed that even 300 level and final year students and that this is one of the major reasons the students staged a protest against the management of the university.
It was further gathered that the protest further escalated when the management of the university announced that students must wear uniforms to school.
According to a notice by the Faculty of Engineering obtained by Nigerian Tribune, students are expected to wear “carton colour trouser/skirt and white shirt with carton colour tie/scarf on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursday. Tuesdays, blue jeans and a red T-Shirt. Fridays, simple traditional attire.”
However, the state Commissioner for Education, Dr Gentle Emelah, said the government had intervened on the issues being canvassed by the students.
As at the time of filing this report, the management of the school is locked in a crucial meeting with members of the State House of Assembly at the Assembly complex in Yenagoa.
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