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  • Nigeria ranks lowest in education budget in West Africa – ASUU

    Nigeria ranks lowest in education budget in West Africa – ASUU

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decried the neglect of the education sector, saying Nigeria ranks lowest in education budgets across the West African sub-region.

    ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this at a One-Day Workshop on ‘Emerging Areas of Students Needs in Beneficiary Institutions’, organised by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in Abuja on Tuesday.

    He also reiterated the union’s call for an upward review of education tax to 10 per cent, saying it would increase TETFund funding from the current N600 billion annually to N3 trillion.

    “We have done survey of West African countries. The least budgetary allocation to education by any country in West Africa is 15 per cent. The highest is 32 per cent.

    “We are in a country where we give 4.5 to 7 per cent out of which less than 70 per cent is released. But the Awolowo government was allocating over 30 per cent to education,” he said .

    He singled out Enugu, Abia and Oyo states for earmarking more than 20 per cent of their budgets to the sector.

    Osodeke berated many Universities Vice Chancellors for their failure to carry necessary stakeholders along in the utilisation of TetFund allocation to their schools.

    “The TETFund inviting us as stakeholders to this meeting is an example of how it should be.

    “But, you remember that when you were allocating money to universities VCs, we agreed that they would call stakeholders meeting before that money is utilised.

    “We had our National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting some days ago, less than 10 per cent have called for that stakeholders meeting.

    “I want to plead that any university that does not take the stakeholders along, should not be allowed to have access to the fund. The funds belong to the Nigerian people,” he said.

    Earlier, the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono said funding educational activities required careful consideration of different needs and expectations.

    Echono said that funding must also be directed at essential programmes which align with the strategic objectives in terms of outcomes of investment in either physical or content development that the funding usually supports.

    “The provision of physical facilities must be accompanied by corresponding programmes that will ensure maximum impact and benefit to the target group.

    “As such, the Fund is constantly and critically reviewing its operations and interventions with a view to ensuring that the interventions meet the actual goals that are intended at conception,” he said.

    The executive secretary noted that new programmes and intervention lines were introduced, and some innovation or alterations were carried out regarding some existing ones, adding that, where necessary, non performing ones were dropped.

    “In the year 2024 disbursement cycle, the Career Services Centre was introduced to complement other programmes in tertiary institutions.

    “The Fund considers the establishment of these centres necessary for the development of students careers and their employability, which is the raison d’etre for establishment of tertiary educational institutions.

    “Career services centres have helped students in advanced nations to make informed decisions regarding their career paths.

    “The centers provide information for students on trends in the job market, opportunities, and requisite skills as well as linkages with the employment industries including the alumni of the institutions,” he said

    Echono said the centres also provide students with tools for self-assessment to identify their interests, strengths, weaknesses and prospects as well as counselling, guidance, and support to all student.

     

  • UniAbuja: ASUU says strike continues

    UniAbuja: ASUU says strike continues

    The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), University of Abuja (UniAbuja), says the union will not call off the strike until all issues are addressed.

    The branch Chairman, Dr Sylvanus Ugoh, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja that the members were not working.

    “Those against the strike may possibly be beneficiaries of what the union is fighting against. Any member found breaking the strike will be subjected to disciplinary procedure.”

    According to him, 90 to 95 per cent of lecturers are on strike.

    UniAbuja, ASUU branch had on May 2 declared an indefinite strike to draw attention of the school management to issues bordering the union.

    One of the issues listed by the union was the University’s refusal to conduct elections for the office of the Deans of Faculties and Provost, College of Health Sciences.

    The Union also accused the University of carrying out promotion of some members of staff without following due process.

    Other reasons for the strike, according to the union, include: “Advertorial for the vacancy of the post of Vice Chancellor without following due process, among others.’’

    The chairman said that ASUU as a body in the university had withdrew the services of their members in the university.

    “ASUU do not lock university, what ASUU did was to withdraw the services our members render to the university.

    ”What we are saying is that our members are not working,” he said.

    On the issue of some lecturers indicating interest to lecture, he said that even in a national strike some would still want to go against the action.

    However, Dr Habib Yakoob, the Acting Director, Information and University Relations, said the management was not aware of any strike.

    Yakoob said that many lecturers have indicated interest to lecture, adding that students were also prepared to receive lectures.

    A correspondent, who was at the university’s permanent site reports that students were seen on campus to officially resume for their second semester academic activities.

    At the time of the visit, no academic activities was seen going on in the lecture halls.

    A Student, Adenike Owolabi, said students were just resuming for their second semester and hopefully lectures would commence soon.

    Owolabi, who said the students were not ready for any strike, added that they have wasted so much time as a result of incessant strike.

    She, therefore, called on the school management to resolve whatever the problem was to avoid the school being shut down.

  • ASUU rejects FG’s wage award

    ASUU rejects FG’s wage award

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted on negotiating the salary of its members with the Tinubu-led administration, thereby, rejecting the N35,000 wage award.

    ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this in Ibadan on Thursday at the inauguration of the secretariat of the University of Ibadan (UI) branch of ASUU.

    Osodeke stated that the union had agreed that whatever was legally sent to members’ accounts should be spent but not to be taken as the negotiated salary.

    “We told them we should negotiate our wage, but they said we are giving you an award of N35,000; we have told them that it is not our own.

    “We are still insisting that there has to be negotiated salary,” he said.

    He identified the renegotiation of the existing agreement, payment of withheld salaries, earned academic allowance and release of the Needs Assessment Funds as some of the pending issues with the Federal Government.

    While commending the UI ASUU branch for the edifice it built using the expertise of its members, Osodeke decried the use of external or foreign consultants to handle projects in the country.

    He said the government should rather hire experts within the country, especially from within Nigerian universities as consultants.

    Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor, UI, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, represented by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnership, Prof. Yemisi Bamgbose, had commended the union.

    Adebowale said the secretariat would serve as a hub of intellectual discussion, collaboration and solidarity among the union members “as it continues to strive for a better future for our universities and our nation.”

    The UI ASUU Chairman, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, said the secretariat was built without donations from external people or bodies.

    He commended members of the union who gave in cash and kind to see to its completion.

    The inauguration had a session, titled, “Challenging NeoLiberal Narrative in Nigeria’s Education Sector: ASUU’s 2022 Strike and Matters Arising”.

    Speaking on the theme, Akinwole, said the impact of neoliberalism on education was complex and multifaceted.

    He noted that the lecture was appropriate “at this period in our nation’s march toward self-reliance and independence in the right sense of the word.

    “Expectedly, the lecture beams light on the way forward in continued relevance for scholars and all concerned leaders of the progressive movement in Nigeria.”

    A Professor of Botany, Odoje Biodiversity Centre, Ogbomoso, Prof. Omotoye Olorode, spoke on the foundationality of the neoliberal narrative as expressed in the Nigerian ruling class response to ASUU’s strike.

    He said, “ASUU’s struggles arise out of the necessity to build a country in which every citizen shall be free, educated, well fed and healthy.

    “We cannot abandon these struggles and yet be worthy of being called ‘intellectuals’.

    “This is where we stand. This is where we ought to stand.”

    The union’s building at Olajuwon Olayide Extension, Ajibode, University of Ibadan, has a secretariat building, scholars’ chalets as well as other modern facilities.

  • ASUU raises alarm over looming industrial crisis in Kano varsity

    ASUU raises alarm over looming industrial crisis in Kano varsity

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),Yusuf Maitama University, Kano branch has raised the alarm over the looming crisis should the state government fail to address its demands.

    The union alleged that the state government had for months reneged in meeting their demands.

    This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the branch Chairman and Secretary, Mansur Sa’ id and Yusuf Gwarzo, respectively,  on Thursday in Kano.

    It said their demands are three-fold which include enhancing conditions of service for their members.

    Others are boosting and hastening the university’s growth through sustainable funding, strengthening and protecting university autonomy and academic freedom.

    The union said they were constrained to bring the issues to the public after several efforts to make the state government attend to their demands failed.

    “On Condition of Service, the branch demands the immediate payment of the outstanding Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), totaling N178 million.

    “The union reached an agreement with the state government to pay this sum in four installments starting from April 2024, however, there has been no release of the first installment to date.

    ‘’The union also demands the payment of the outstanding Consequential Adjustment Arrears, which stands at N111 million.

    ‘’Furthermore, the union is requesting the implementation of the newly-approved Consolidated Universities Academic Salary Structure II (CONUASS II), set on Jan. 1, 2023 as effective date,” the statement said.

    According to the union, the salary structure had already been implemented in all federal universities, except in their university.

    The statement said that the union was also requesting the payment of a provisional Wage Award of ₦35,000 for six months, as approved by the Federal Government.

    On university funding, he urged the state government to expedite action towards completing ongoing projects as well as supplementing TETFUND funding for academic staff training.

    On university autonomy and academic freedom, the union called for the reconstitution of the university’s governing council.

    It added, “We emphasise the strategic importance, as per the law, of the University Governing Council and the extent to which its absence undermines the university administration.’’

    The union urged the visitor to the university to intensify efforts in resolving the brewing issues in the interest of industrial harmony.

    When contacted the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry for Higher Education, Sanusi Abdullahi, said the Commissioner has traveled out of the state.

  • Reps call for truce over UniAbuja face-off

    Reps call for truce over UniAbuja face-off

    The House of Representatives, has called for a truce between the Academic Staff Union (ASUU) and the management of the University of Abuja, over the current strike.

    Rep. Abubakar Fulata, the Chairman, House Committee on University Education, said this when he received the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah and a team of ASUU members from the institution at the National Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja.

    “The need to ensure non-disruption of academic activities led to the intervention, which made the Federal Government to remove universities from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

    “When we came on board, we promised that there should be no disruption of academic activities in Nigerian universities. We observed that university managements were in complex condition under IPPIS.

    “We made the appeal, and President Bola Tinubu listened to us and removed universities and other tertiary institutions from IPPIS,” he said.
    Fulata appealed to ASUU to suspend the indefinite strike that began on May 2.

    He promised that the National Assembly would soon come up with a bill that would address the problem regarding the appointment of a VC and the running of universities in the absence of a council.

    He appealed to ASUU to suspend the strike while further consultations were ongoing to finally resolve the impasse

    Ealier, Dr Sylvanus Ugo, the Chairman of the university’s chapter of ASUU, said the meeting was to find an amicable solution to the problems on the ground.
    Ugod said the issues in contention that resulted in the indefinite strike included the illegal advertisement for the vacancy of the post of Vice-Chancellor.

    He said that it was the governing council that was responsible for the appointment of a new VC, but in the absence of the council, the Senate of the university could elect an acting VC.

    Other issues he raised included the illegal appointment of deans, recruitment of staff without due process, illegal promotion, and the removal of ASUU from the University’s Micro Finance Bank in spite of its numerous investments.

    Na’Allah, in his response, said the 6th Vice-Chancellor of the University was expected to retire from service in June.

    He said the Minister of Education gave the permission to place advertisement in respect of the vacancy for the post of VC of the University.

    Na’Allah said that all appointments, recruitments, and promotions carried out were in consonance with the University Act.

  • UniAbuja: CONUA states position on ASUU strike

    UniAbuja: CONUA states position on ASUU strike

    The Congress of University Academics (CONUA), University of Abuja Chapter has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike  by the university branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    The Chairman, CONUA, University of Abuja Chapter, Prof. Abdul Buba, said this when the group paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah in Abuja on Friday.

    Buba said the University system could not be grounded because it had no Governing Council, a decision that informed the industrial actions.

    “We believe in stable academic calendar and that’s why we believe that there are other ways of handling labour issues rather than strike actions.

    “CONUA addresses issues and not personalities. We also respect opinions of our members and not a predetermined objective of the leadership.

    ”We address issues without sentiments and meet with the right stakeholders in the pursue of our objectives.

    “We are conscious of the negative effects of strikes, and we believe in deploying relevant strategies that will yield positive results in modern age of innovation,” he said.

    He added that CONUA would continue to engage relevant stakeholders to pursue legitimate welfare for its members without dabbling with issues not of the concern to its members.

    “The ongoing strike in place in the university, CONUA is not part of it because we believe in academic and service delivery.

    “All these five points for the strike are baseless. Let me start with the issue of advertorial for the position of vice chancellor, initially if it were that the council is in place everything about employment both the employees and the principal officers start and end with the university governing council.

    “But in the absence of the university governing council, the law has no provision for the vice chancellor to appoint any successor so it is the responsibility of the government to do that. So, there is no way the VC can be accused.

    “This is because even the advertorial, if you watch and other advertorial that were placed by other universities, it was mentioning the ministry representing the government so this is baseless,” he said.

    Also, the CONUA Secretary, Prof. Issa Abdulraheem, urged the union to focus on the welfare of its members which was the sole role of establishing a union.

    “The union is established to cater for the welfare of its members, all the issues raised by the other union are baseless and have nothing to do with the staff welfare.

    “And so we believe that we have ways of handling issues with stakeholders without sentiments of personalising issues. All the points raised by the other unions are not in the interest of its members,”he said.

    On his part, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah,  appreciated CONUA for its stance in not joining the strike, hoping that academic programme by ASUU would commence soon.

    The University of Abuja ASUU branch had embarked on a total and indefinite strike on May 2 over alleged university’s refusal to conduct elections for the office of the Dean’s of faculties and Provost College of Health Sciences.

    The Union also accused the university of carrying out promotion of some staffers without following due process.

    Other reasons for the strike, according to the Union include, “Advertorial of the vacancy of the post of the Vice Chancellor without following due process, among others.

  • UniAbuja ASUU Strike: CONUA dissociates self, says action baseless

    UniAbuja ASUU Strike: CONUA dissociates self, says action baseless

    The Congress of University Academics (CONUA), University of Abuja Chapter has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike  by the university branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    The Chairman, CONUA, University of Abuja Chapter, Prof. Abdul Buba, said this when the group paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah in Abuja on Friday.

    Buba said the University system could not be grounded because it had no Governing Council, a decision that informed the industrial actions.

    “We believe in stable academic calendar and that’s why we believe that there are other ways of handling labour issues rather than strike actions.

    “CONUA addresses issues and not personalities. We also respect opinions of our members and not a predetermined objective of the leadership.

    ”We address issues without sentiments and meet with the right stakeholders in the pursue of our objectives.

    “We are conscious of the negative effects of strikes, and we believe in deploying relevant strategies that will yield positive results in modern age of innovation,” he said.

    He added that CONUA would continue to engage relevant stakeholders to pursue legitimate welfare for its members without dabbling with issues not of the concern to its members.

    “The ongoing strike in place in the university, CONUA is not part of it because we believe in academic and service delivery.

    “All these five points for the strike are baseless.

    “Let me start with the issue of advertorial for the position of vice chancellor, initially if it were that the council is in place everything about employment both the employees and the principal officers start and end with the university governing council.

    “But in the absence of the university governing council, the law has no provision for the vice chancellor to appoint any successor so it is the responsibility of the government to do that. So, there is no way the VC can be accused.

    “This is because even the advertorial, if you watch and other advertorial that were placed by other universities, it was mentioning the ministry representing the government so this is baseless,” he said.

    Also, the CONUA Secretary, Prof. Issa Abdulraheem, urged the union to focus on the welfare of its members which was the sole role of establishing a union.

    “The union is established to cater for the welfare of its members, all the issues raised by the other union are baseless and have nothing to do with the staff welfare.

    “And so we believe that we have ways of handling issues with stakeholders without sentiments of personalising issues. All the points raised by the other unions are not in the interest of its members,”he said.

    On his part, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah,  appreciated CONUA for its stance in not joining the strike, hoping that academic programme by ASUU would commence soon.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the University of Abuja ASUU branch had embarked on a total and indefinite strike on May 2 over alleged university’s refusal to conduct elections for the office of the Dean’s of faculties and Provost College of Health Sciences.

    The Union also accused the university of carrying out promotion of some staffers without following due process.

    Other reasons for the strike, according to the Union include, “Advertorial of the vacancy of the post of the Vice Chancellor without following due process, among others.

  • UniAbuja breaks silence over ongoing ASUU strike

    UniAbuja breaks silence over ongoing ASUU strike

    The Management of the university of Abuja (UniAbuja) says academic and administrative activities on campus will go on in spite of  reported strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    The Vice-Chancellor (VC) UniAbuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, said this at a meeting with Provost, Deans, Directors and Heads of academic departments.

    A statement from the meeting, signed by Dr Habib Yakoob, the Acting Director, Information and University Relations, was made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

    The vice chancellor described the strike as divisive and unnecessary, vowing that the management would never allow the university to be crippled again.

    “As far as the management of the university is concerned, this institution is not on strike.

    “Some people said they have declared a strike but all of us with the management have decided that our normal activities in the university must go on.

    “Our exam is going on, senate meeting will continue, everything we do as a university will continue, our calendar will not be disrupted any longer by the grace of God.

    “It is wrong to cripple the university over issues that are merely sentimental and some of which we have dialogued over and resolved, we are prepared not to allow this disruption again,” he said.

    He debunked all the reported allegations of the union which they claimed informed its declaration of indefinite strike.

    “Take for instance, the advert for the position of the vice-chancellor, we are not the only university that has advertised, we had the support and approval of the government.

    “The advert was done by the Minister of Education, all I did as vice- chancellor was to request, to ask for what is next and they decided this is what we must do.

    “And if you look at the advertisement from the beginning, this fact is very clear. It is only that they had to send it to us for execution that is all,” he explained.

    He also described the union’s allegations of illegal recruitment, promotion, delay in the election of deanship, and microfinance bank establishment as unfounded, adding that the university had followed due process in handling all these matters.

    He said the university ensured that relevant institutions concerned with oversights were contacted.

    On the issue of the election of deans and establishment of microfinance bank, he disclosed that the elections time table had long been publicised.

    He explained that the elections of four deans had been conducted so far.

    Na’Allah also said that the university management had invested over N200 million in the proposed Microfinance Bank over the ASUU’s N4 million.

    He said the investment had been made before the union wrote directly to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop granting the license for our operation.

    The vice-chancellor said his administration had been working hard to develop the university and would not fold its arms and allow a group of people to destabilise its calendar.

    “For over four years, our goal has been to lift this university much higher than it was, and this we have succeeded in doing by taking our academic and infrastructural developments to a world class level.

  • ASUU faction dissociates from UniAbuja strike

    ASUU faction dissociates from UniAbuja strike

    A faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, has dissociated itself from the strike action declared by the Union.

    The faction known as “Anti-Strike ASUU Members”, at a news conference, in Abuja, shortly, after the declaration of the strike by the ASUU chapter of the school on Thursday, said it would not join the strike.

    Recall that the ASUU branch of University of Abuja embarked on indefinite strike in the early hours of Thursday.

    Dr Abubakar Kari, the Dean of Students Affairs and former Convener, ASUU National Political Committee,  said the strike was to satisfy  personal interest, not the larger interest of ASUU members and the university.

    According to him, “Members of ASUU here standing for several other members with like minds but unavoidably absent, rise to reassure students, parents and members of the public that we will protect the sanctity of the University’s robust academic calendar.

    “We will continue to work for continuous opening of the university operations.

    “We vehemently demand that ASUU must work for ASUU and not a hidden cabal out to take the university of Abuja back to the inglorious yesteryears.

    “A decision to go on an indefinite strike without, at any point, seeking members of ASUU’s vote for, or against is absolutely not the ASUU procedure for calling strike.

    “So, the so-called strike remains unrepresentative of the larger members of ASUU and cannot stand”.

    Speaking on the alleged advertorial for the, about-to-be vacant position of the Vice chancellor, Kari said, so far, five federal universities had advertised for the position of Vice Chancellors.

    “The question begging the mind of everyone, staffers and the public is why would ASUU, university of Abuja alone proceed on indefinite strike while University of Maiduguri, Usman Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto, ATBU Bauchi and others sustain the sanctity of stable academic calendar on their campuses?

    “We say, No, to strike over issues that are not peculiar to the University of Abuja,” he said.

    The University of Abuja ASUU branch declared an indefinite strike to draw attention to developments bordering the union.

    The Chairman of the branch, Dr Sylvanus Ugoh, said the union had resolved to embark on a total and indefinite strike with immediate effect.

    He said the strike became necessary, given the University’s refusal to conduct elections for the office of the Dean’s of faculties and Provost College of Health Sciences.

    The Union also accused the University of carrying out promotion of some staffers without following due process.

    Other reasons for the strike, according to the Union include, “Advertorial of the vacancy of the post of Vice Chancellor without following due process, among others.

  • ASUU breaks silence as sex scandal rocks UNN

    ASUU breaks silence as sex scandal rocks UNN

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the union would not oppose any sanction against the lecturer allegedly involved in sex scandal in a video trending in the social media.

    Dr Oyibo Eze, Chairperson of ASUU, University of Nigeria Nsukka, (UNN) said this in Nsukka on Tuesday while reacting to the alleged attempt by a lecturer in UNN to have sex with a female student in his office on Monday.

    “ASUU will not oppose any sanction if after investigations, the suspect is found guilty of allegation to have attempted to have sex with a female student in his office.

    “We should all know that every action has its consequences,” he said.

    He said that ASUU condemned the alleged act by the lecturer identified as Mr. David Udom-Udom of the Social Science Unit, School of General Studies (GS) of the UNN.

    “I saw the trending video of the alleged act yesterday and this morning I went  to GS department and confirmed the incident in the viral video on Monday.

    “Lecturers should see students as their children by displaying high sense of discipline, morality and avoid asking sex for mark.

    “It is condemnable and that is what happens when a dog eats the bone hung on its neck.

    “Our job as lecturers is to teach students not to harass them sexually,” he said.

    Reacting to the incident, Comrade Enoch Utazi, the President, Students Union Government (SUG) of the UNN, also condemned the alleged act by Udom to have sex with a student for mark.

    Utazi said SUG would follow the matter to its logical conclusion to ensure that the affected randy lecturer was punished according to rules and regulations of the university.

    “SUG will ensure this randy lecturer is punished to serve as deterrent to others who exploit female students sexually in order to give them mark,” Utazi said.

    Meanwhile, Mr. Chris Alumona, the Chief Security Officer of  UNN, when contacted, confirmed the incident and said that the randy lecturer Udom-Udom had been arrested and handed over to the police.

    Alumona said his office acted on tip-off from UNN Department of Students Affairs on what was happening on Monday in Udom’s office.

    UNN suspends lecturer over alleged sexual harassment

    Meanwhile, management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has suspended indefinitely its Mr David Udo-Udom, the lecturer, allegedly involved in sexual harassment of a female student.

    This is contained in a statement signed by the institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Chief Okwun Omeaku, and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Nsukka.

    According to Omeaku, the indefinite suspension is with immediate effect pending the outcome of a Disciplinary Panel constituted by the university to investigate the incident.

    He said the affected lecturer, who is of the General Studies division, was allegedly caught in a video harassing a female student.

    The PRO said that the UNN had a zero tolerance for sexual misconducts involving either staff members or students.

    “UNN is among the few universities in the country that has a sexual harassment policy, which guides the relationship between our staff and students.

    “As a university, we are committed to protecting our students from any form of abuse and exploitation.

    ”The university management will not hesitate to punish Udoudom , according to our rules, if he is found guilty by our disciplinary panel,” he said.