… Students begin exams Monday
The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) in Rivers State, that was shut by the management in the evening of April 11 this year, after students’ violent protest earlier in the day, will be reopening on Sunday, with first semester examinations to start the next day.
According to information yesterday from the university’s website (http://www.uniport.edu.ng/resources/calendar.html), the revised academic calendar for 2015/2016 session would be for both full-time and part-time programmes, as approved at the 422nd meeting (extra-ordinary) of the Senate of the higher institution.
UNIPORT’s Deputy Registrar, Information and Public Relations, Dr. Williams Wodi, while announcing the closure of the federal university on April 11, assured that it would be for just one month, but the promise could not be fulfilled, making the students to be at home for over two months.
The protest by UNIPORT’s students led to the death of a final year male student in the Faculty of Management Sciences, who was shot by one of the policemen who came to clear the barricades on the ever-busy East-West Road, where the students were expressing their displeasure over lack of potable water and regular electricity, among others, on campus, with many students also injured and valuable property worth millions of naira either vandalised or destroyed by the students and hoodlums, who later hijacked the protest.
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