“This school needs comprehensive intervention, and this is a
matter of urgency”, a female student told our correspondent.
Yaba College of Technology sits along two other
higher institutions; the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and
the Federal College of Education (FCE) in Akoka, making
the vicinity a concentrated academic district.
Recently, the Yaba College of Technology became notori
ous with news of cult clashes. Some students had alleged that
the College’s Management is involved in grooming secret
cults on the campus.
At present, the students are reporting an increasing rot in the
College. They alleged total neglect by Management of the
College and also complained that they are exploited.
“They banned our Student Union and began to increase fees.
The Management now imposes levies on us indiscriminately”,
the students complained.
“We are calling to inform of what degeneration that our
campus now is”, one female student said.
While some student complained about extortion, others were
concerned that infrastructures are dilapidating from
Management’s neglect. “We now go out of campus to nearby
restaurants and banks just to use their toilets. We can’t enter
toilets of our own on campus. They are rotten.
“They [the Management] would have us hold impression that
our school is free, whereas we are paying various
inexplicable dues that are way too high”, the students said.
In another email to our correspondent, the students said the
school has no definite program completion plan; “We are not
sure we have a school calendar; it takes more than two years
to complete either our National Diploma or Higher
National Diploma..”
The email also says in part; “School resumed May 25th 2015
and some departments started lectures that week, [but] a new
calendar just came out from the Management stating we
[have just] resumed 22nd of June and Exams starts on the
12th of October 2015″
“WE SAY NO TO THIS!!! ENOUGH OF
*Bedbugs in classrooms *Sleeping in Classrooms
*Congested rooms in the Hostels * Paying for spaces
(hostels) that is Dilapidated, No Renovation, No
Rehabilitation!!!! * Lack of Conducive restrooms within the
school premises and hostels * Poor Health care services, the
rooms are not well cleaned, condemned mattresses…”
“Doctors and Nurses attend to students like we are begging
them to work or we didn’t pay for their services. Students
are intimidated and purposely taken off their rights by
suspending the Student Union Government of the College.
We do not portray our popular saying of “THE FIRST
AND STILL THE BEST” Neither are we leading the
frontline”, the College students’ message to protested.
Source: 9ralife blog