NIJ students protest after management bars colleagues from writing exams [PHOTOS]

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Students of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Ogba in Ikeja, Lagos, Tuesday morning staged a peaceful protest within the school premises.

Their action was caused by the refusal of the school management to allow two students, Emmanuel Bassey (ND2) and Okunnu Michael (ND1), write the semester examination.

DailyPost was informed that some months earlier, one of the duo crashed the other's automobile, a Toyota Previa, into a spot that has the school's internet facility installed.

After the incident, the management summoned the students and warned them to fixed the damaged solar powered installation or face the music.

That threat was, however, made real today when the duo were told they could not sit for examination.

The order, which triggered the protest, saw students march within the premises, vowing not to return to classrooms without their colleagues.

A female student, who spoke to DailyPost on condition of anonymity, lamented what she described as mismanagement of funds by the school authority.

"The internet facility was provided by the federal government. Since then, we have not had any access and it is working," she said.

"Also, N5, 000 caution fee is added to our tuition fee. So we had expected that management would use from that fund to carry out repair."

"If they knew there was no need for caution fee, why ask us to pay in the first place?" she quipped.

"Again, the insurance company for the vehicle asked the management to forward quotation to enable them come fix the installation. But the authority asked for the money in cash which is not proper."

Also speaking, the students' leader, Ojebola Mathew Opeoluwa, told DailyPost that their action became necessary because an "injury to one is an injury to all."

"To deny students entrance to the examination hall because of some damage that can be fixed is not fair as they will have to re-sit next year and also pay another tuition fee (around N120,000)"

"We have gone about this peacefully; we are law-abiding citizens and would not keep quiet while our colleagues suffer," Opeoluwa said.

Efforts to reach the Provost, Mrs. Elizabeth Ikem, proved abortive as she was said to be in an emergency meeting with class governors on how to resolve the crisis

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