Some medical students of the University
of Lagos, Akoka, who were given courses contrary to their choices, have
threatened to take the institution to court if it fails to reverse its
decision within seven days, starting from Wednesday, February 17.
They said they had petitioned the
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rahman Bello, the Federal Ministry of Education,
the Senate Committee on Education, the National Universities Commission,
the Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, among others, on the
development, saying they wanted favourable response before the ultimatum
elapsed.
The students had reportedly met the pass
mark set by UNILAG for them to move to 200 level, but most of them were
not admitted into the College of Medicine in Idi-Araba on the grounds
that the quota given to the school was not sufficient.
Some of the students and their parents on Thursday protested against the development at PUNCH
Place on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, displaying placards, some of
which read, “JAMB, NUC, please save our future, save our career, save
our destiny, come to our aid,” “This scam must stop, we want our courses
at the college of medicine”, “Prof. Rahman Bello, you are a Pharaoh,
allow our children to cross to the promised college.”
“By their performances in their first
year course work and examinations, they met the requirements by having a
Cumulative Grade Point Average or cumulative score average of 50 in the
groupings of courses for the Medicine and Surgery, Medical Laboratory,
Nursing, and Physiotherapy departments; and a 2.00 CGPA for students in
Pharmacology, Physiology and Radiography departments to advance to 200
level and first year in the UNILAG College of Medicine.”
The petition stated further that the
school had raised the requirements from 50 per cent and 2.0 CGPA to
between 2.5 and 4.11 CGPA after the students had met the initial
standards.
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