"NO IDENTITY CARD , NO EXAM" SAYS U.I STUDENT UNION

President of the University of Ibadan
Students’ Union (UISU), Mr Aderemi
Ojo, has said the university, which
was shut recently, will not begin
examinations until the identity cards
the students paid for are given them.

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He said: “The power we rely on is the
power of democracy. I can assure
you that exams will not be written if
students don’t get ID cards. There
are several students on campus who
have been assaulted and
embarrassed on the issue of ID
cards.

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"Secondly, there are students who
are supposed to receive scholarships
who couldn’t scan their ID cards and
send, even outside Nigeria.”
Ojo said many students had missed
foreign grants because they could not
present ID cards to prove their
studentship.

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On the school’s closure and
suspension of union activities, the
union president said the vice
chancellor, Prof Idowu Olayinka, did
not tolerate any form of dissent from
students.

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He cited the alleged victimisation of
student leaders by UI authorities and
the expulsion of a student over a
Facebook post, to back his claims.
Ojo said: “We haven’t committed any
crime. We haven’t done anything,
but we are targets.

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These are
academic individuals who blasted
former President Goodluck Jonathan
during and before the 2015 elections.
But then, a student wrote an article
on students’ union page on Facebook
and the boy was expelled.”