UNIJOS Crisis: Council Approves Fees Hike, Directs Reinstatement of Dissolved Student Union

This was contained in a Press Release signed by Abdullahi Abdullahi, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Information and Publications in the office of the Vice Chancellor exclusively obtained by CityMirrorNews.

The Council noted that the hike was a “Federal Government approved school charges for all Federal Universities”.

According to the press statement: “The 12th Council directed the University Management to implement the payment across all levels of studentship for undergraduates in the University.

The Council at its 11th Regular Meeting deliberated extensively on issues surrounding the implementation of school charges as directed by the Federal Government and met with executive members of the UNIJOS Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)”.

Meanwhile, Council observed that the management goofed in an earlier memo conveying resolutions reached with Staff Unions over the hike and urged the Unions to disregard it.

The statement reads, “Memo conveying resolutions reached with Staff Unions over the payment of school charges by students was not authorized by it or the Federal Government and therefore should be disregarded”.

The Council also discussed issues of the dissolved Students’ Union Government and “directed that the union should be reinstated”.

However, it gave conditions for the reinstatement stating, “subject to the condition that each member of the dissolved SUG writes a letter of apology to the University Management for tarnishing the image of the University in the public domain, that each dissolved SUG member pledges to be of good behavior and to maintain good discipline and that they do not introduce any discussion on the approved new school charges of Forty-Five Thousand Naira (N45,000)”.

The conditions are considered dictatorial by students and the public.

Efforts to get the reaction of the dissolved executive members of the union was unsuccessful.