Insecurity: UNIJOS Suspends Academic Activities, Shuts Hostels

Following the rising spate of insecurity in Jos and its environs, the Administration of the College of Jos has suspended all tutorial actions within the establishment until
additional discover.

Mr Monday Danjem, the Registrar of the college, unveiled this improvement in a press release on Friday in Jos.

In keeping with Danjem, the choice to droop tutorial actions and shut hostels was arrived on the finish of the assembly between administration and the Committee of Deans, Administrators and Provost of the establishment on Friday, August 20.

“The insecurity in Jos, which led to the imposition of dusk-to-dawn curfew has affected the educational actions and compelled the college to droop its second semester examinations for the 2019/2020 tutorial session.

“College students of the college continued to expertise assaults from hoodlums, a scenario that has led to the demise of a few of our college students.

“Consequently, the administration of the college, after an emergency assembly with the Committee of Deans, Administrators and Provost on Friday, ordered the suspension all tutorial actions within the college till additional discover.

“Administration has additionally directed the closure of all college students hostels till additional discover

“The choice, which is in finest curiosity and for the security of our college students, is topic to ratification by the Senate of the College,” Danjem stated.

The registrar suggested college students to vacates all hostels and return house and different safer abodes till the security situation in Jos improves.

He appealed to security agencies to beef up safety on the varied college students location to allow them vacate to their locations safely.

“College students are additionally suggested to make use of secure technique of transportation to their respective safer locations.

“We want to passionately enchantment {that a} joint patrol workforce of armed troopers and other legislation enforcement businesses ought to beef up safety and be sure that college students are adequately protected as they vacate their varied hostels to safer locations,” he appealed.

He stated that administration would give enough discover of resumption when normalcy is absolutely restored in Jos and environs.

Danjem thanked the federal government of the state and safety businesses for guaranteeing the security of majority of scholars of the college whilst attacks on innocent people persist in Jos.

He known as on the scholars to be legislation abiding and desist from actions that will put them in bother.

Recall that some college students of the college have been killed and others injured within the present insecurity that has bedeviled Jos in final one week.