University of Abuja Shut Down following Students’ Protest

University of Abuja have shut down the institution following students’ protest. the students’ protest which led to major roads and huge traffic congestion resulted in the institution being shut down.

According to Sahara Reporters, the students went on a rampage to protest the non-accreditation of some of their courses. The accreditation panel of the National University Commission had recently refused to certify some of the courses being run by the university. Some of the courses are in the Faculty of Engineering, Agriculture and Sciences.

Some students said the university is in poor condition as inhabitants of the girls hostel lack of water supply which forces them to fetch water from the boys hostel. Student leaders of the protest said the school is also bedeviled with overpopulated classes, cancelled lectures, lack of library facilities and lecture halls as well as the refusal of the school authorities to allow for independent student union elections.

The students had protested the suspension of four courses offered by the University - Medicine, Veterinary medicine, Engineering and Agriculture which failed to get accreditation from the NUC.