Following protests by students in its two campuses, the University of Abuja has been closed until further notice.
The University’s Governing Council closed the campuses on Monday, ordering the students out of the hostels and campuses.
The university had been entangled in a series of crises, which had terribly impeded its growth. An industrial action recently embarked on by a faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the university has also added to the crises bedevilling the school.
According to the protesting students at the Gwagwalada mini- campus, the students were pursued out of the campus, after which the gates were locked. While in the main campus, notices were placed on all notice boards in each department, directing all students to leave the campus immediately.
Notice was issued by the school’s Registrar, Mohammed Modibbo.
It read: “I am directed to inform you that given the situation in the university, the Vice Chancellor has approved that the university be closed down until further notice. You are therefore directed to vacate the university until further development is communicated to you.”
Waziri Garba, director of information unit of the university, confirmed the school’s indefinite closure, explaining that the institution was shut down because of students’ protest. Garba also revealed that the protest was to demand the first semester examination.
“The school was shut down because the students were demonstrating and demanding the conduct of examination, but examination is not something you demand through demonstration,” Garba said.
