The management of Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has reportedly announced the indefinite suspension of all academic activities in the University with immediate effect.
The University, in a memo issued and signed by its Acting Registrar, Ambrose E. Odiase, said the suspension of academic activities became necessary following an emergency meeting of the University’s Senate in Ekpoma on Monday, September 4, to appraise the continued protest by students running into days.
According to SaharaReporters, the management said: “In order to prevent a total breakdown of law and order as well as the need to guarantee the safety of lives and property in the University community and its environs, Senate was left with no other choice than to direct an immediate suspension of academic activities.
To this effect, all students residing in the hostels on campus are to vacate the Halls of Residence without fail within the next twenty-four (24) hours.”
It would be recalled that students of the University have been protesting an alleged 75 per cent increment in tuition fee of returning students and a scheduled commendation service in honour of a late Professor of Economics, Prof. Moses Isunu Aliemen.
The protest staged at the institution’s entrance gate reportedly disrupted academic and administative activities, a situation which led to the dissolution of the Student Union Executive.
Meanwhile, the 40th Matriculation Ceremony of the University scheduled to be held on Tuesday, 5th September, 2023 has also been put on hold indefinitely.
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