The Vice-Chancellor of the Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island, Prof Allen A. Agih, and other Management Staff of the University including lecturers of the Institution, have intensified their SENSITIZATION CAMPAIGN: "No School Fees Payment. No Course Registration. No Exams!"
The campaign, which was led personally by the Vice-Chancellor and other principal officers of the University, is to press home their demands for students of the Niger Delta University to pay their school fees and register for their courses as a condition for writing their examinations.
Failure to do that, students are at liberty—as provided by law and enshrined in the Student Handbook—to voluntarily suspend their studies until such a time they are financially capable of resuming.
The affected student(s) can then write through his/her Dean, via his/her Head of Department, to the Vice-Chancellor for resumption of studies. Such applications will be presented to Senate for approval before the affected student resumes.
It would be recalled that the University Authority had gone into various agreements with the Students’ Union and sought intervention from various bodies, including the Bayelsa State Government, all to no avail on this same school fees matter.
Critically, the Niger Delta University is in dire need of finances to run the institution for better service delivery, and hence the payment of school fees has become very imperative.
Consequently, the students on their part must pay their school fees to enable the University Authority run the system and provide basic amenities for the students as a plow back.