By ACADEMIC activities at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo State, have been halted and the school shut.
This was a sequel to the insistence of students of the university not to shift grounds on their demands for 24 hours supply of electricity, potable water and more.
The demands, it was gathered, were considered unrealistic by the university’s senate, leading to the indefinite shutdown of academic activities on the campus.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution, Benedicta Ehanire, PhD, in a statement on Thursday, said students were to “vacate the hostels immediately while all the relevant units of the university are to take note and comply.
“However, non teaching staff and staff on essential duties are not affected by the shutdown.”
Recall that an impromptu protests rocked the campus of the institution on Wednesday morning as students took to the gate barricading the road and causing a total shutdown of commercial activities.
The students, in their hundreds, chanted against shortage of potable water and poor electricity supply on the campus.
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