SHOCKING!!! The Cost of Hostel Bed Space Still N90 After 40 Years, Says ABU

The Ahmadu Bello College (ABU), Zaria has retained the N90 value of hostel mattress area fastened 40 years in the past.

In line with NAN, Malam Auwalu Umar, the general public affairs director at ABU, confirmed the event.

 

Umar mentioned, regardless of the ridiculously low quantity being charged, the establishment was capable of present hostel to 35 p.c of its over 55,000 undergraduate and postgraduate college students.

 

He mentioned as a part of efforts to enhance the efforts of the establishment, BUA Group and the Tertiary Schooling Belief Fund (TETFund) assisted in setting up further hostels within the college.

 

Abubakar-Sadeeq Ali, the president of the Students Representative Council (SRC), mentioned N90 was solely the payment charged for mattress area.

 

He mentioned there was one other N7,000, being quantity charged for hostel upkeep.

 

NAN, nonetheless, quoted a female undergraduate student as saying a lot of the rooms had been all the time congested.

 

“A room meant for 2 college students hosts about 5 folks, whereas a room meant for eight college students accommodates between 12 and 13 folks,” the coed was quoted as saying.

 

She added that some college students sublet their mattress areas, charging between N15,000 and N35, 000, relying on the room and the corridor.