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Uniabuja students emback on protest, demand reopening of university

Students of the university of Abuja today blocked the Main Gate of the University, preventing other students and staff from gaining access into the campus to demand the immediate reopening of the university.

The students in their numbers also said they were demanding the reopening and extension of school fees payment portal, cancellation of late registration fee, and postponement of exams till 8th of March 2021.

The action of the students bright vehicular movements on the ever busy Abuja airport road to a standstill for several hours until security men were dispatched by the FCT police command to calm the situation and reopen the road fir free flow of traffic.


Reacting to the development in a rraleaee signed by the spokes person of the school Dr Habib Yacoob, said that the release of 2019/2020 Academic Calendar by the Senate of the University, and the registration of students was to be done in four weeks.


He said Following the expiration of this process, the University closed the portal in February 2020 in line with the 2019/2020 Academic Calendar.


Yet after pleas from the students’ union, the Vice-Chancellor, in his magnanimity, twice directed the reopening, at different times, of the portal to accommodate those who didn’t register on time.


In the last one week, a couple of meetings were held with the students’ union which again demanded the re-opening of the portal. The University administration held emergency meeting with the union at 2.00pm on Sunday 31st January 2021, and considered their appeal.


Consequently, the portal was reopened on Sunday 31st January 2021 for registration, for another two weeks – till February 14 2021, and the students were duly informed.

Again, the late registration fee for those who had not paid their school fee as well as those who paid but did not register, was waived; and late registration fee of N5, 000 was to be refunded to students who had earlier paid.


The University Management, is however, surprised that while so many of our students were excited to be resuming to campus today after ten months at home, they were held back by some elements among students who are protesting the same issue that had already been addressed by the University.
The University appeals to all law abiding students to not partake in disrupting the 2019/2020 Academic Calendar, considering the amount of time lost to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and Covid-19 pandemic; and that it is putting all necessary measures in place to address this unfortunate development.

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