Medical Student Sued UNILAG (SEE REASONS)

Medical students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, have pleaded with the Federal High Court to prevent the university senate from going ahead with its plans to change the academic requirement needed by them to proceed to 200-level.

Medical Student Sued UNILAG (SEE REASONS)

The 100 level students described the decision taken by the school as “an attempt to weed them out of the university.”

The aggrieved students complained that they were admitted to study dentistry, nursing, pharmacology and medicine but they have been asked to study other courses like botany and microbiology, Punch reports.

They accused  the authorities of introducing new entry requirements at the point of their  moving to 200 level, despite scoring more than the 50 per cent.

The students accused the university of raising the academic requirement in order to accommodate diploma students, who allegedly paid N500,000 to the institution’s College of Medicine.

The aggrieved students, through their lawyer, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, therefore, urged the court to declare the Senate decision as a nullity.

They added, “The said revision was not carried out with noble and genuine intentions to enhance academic standards in the MBBS and other medical programmes in the College of Medicine.They claimed that upon being admitted to the university, the academic requirements they needed to proceed to the second year were clearly stated in the Faculty of Science pre-Medical and Pharmacy Programmes 2014-2016 Information Handbook made available to them.

“It was also not for the reason of adherence to the admission quota of either the National Universities Commission or of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for the MBBS in the College of Medicine, (which is 150 for the College of Medicine).

“It was for the purpose of creating admission spaces for foundational course students who are given (or more appropriately sold) admission into the MBBS and other medical programmes upon participating in a one-year programme organised by a Joint Unified Preliminary Examination Board for which they paid to the university  a minimum total fee of N400,000 per session.

“The said payment is part of the internally generated revenue of the university, a stream of revenue which has attracted wide criticism in the university system in Nigeria, for lack of transparency and accountability in its management.”

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