Nasarawa University Students Raise Concern Over Capacity of Management to Handle Academic Affairs
The students of Nasarawa state University, Keffi (NSUK) have expressed deep concerns over the capacity and capability of the new management of the institution to handle academic affairs in the institution.
The students spoke to newsmen on Wednesday in Keffi on the condition of anonymity for fear of been reprimanded accused the new management under Prof. Sa’adatu Hassan Liman led administration for not living up to expectations in terms of promoting academic activities.
They said management is rather focusing on collaboration with local and foreign organizations to solicit funds.
The students lamented that the academic activities are so poorly handled by the management to the extent that lectures are not taking place frequently in line with the general academic standard.
One student told newsmen that management always sit in their various offices receiving visitors and abandoned their primarily responsibilities of monitoring and supervision of academic activities.
He added that since Prof. Sa’adatu took over as VC, nothing has changed positively.
“Since we resumed this semester, we have only received lectures three or four times.
“In fact, some lecturers have not even started their lectures. They will fix lecture and when we go, only to hear the announcement from course reps that it has been cancelled without given us any congent reason,” he said.
Another said “These people don’t care about our knowledge, we paid school fees to acquire knowledge and not to come and eat our food or move around the campus without learning anything”.
The students then advised Prof Sa’adatu led management to sit up by ensuring that students acquire requisite knowledge which is the primarily aim of establishing the university.
“Anytime they go for an event, what they always discussed is collaboration and how to attract revenue or income to the university.
“Yes collaboration is also a good initiative but they should not forget academic affairs. Let them ask, are lecturers perform their duties as expected? As a head, if you don’t care about what is happening, it means you are not ready to lead,” One student stressed.
Our correspondent also observed that Lack of lecture halls, is another major challenge facing the students and the university, as some of the students received lectures while standing due to lack of space and over population.
Our correspondent also interviewed some female students who are living in the hostel who also lamented that the hostel Is in bad condition with no proper maintenance effort by the management.
“Sometimes there is no water and power supply and this sometimes pose serious danger to our lives. We are calling for urgent steps to address these issues,” she said.
All efforts by our correspondent to speak with the head of Information and Protocol Unit of the institution proved abortive as at the time of filling this report.
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