Victoria Mgbanwa
“The University of Benin has shut down academic activities indefinitely. Following the insistence of students of the University to shift grounds on their demands for twenty four hours supply of electricity and more, considered unrealistic by the university’s Senate.
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) made the announcement in a statement released by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire.
The body said the decision comes after students refused to withdraw their demands for improved electricity supply and other issues.
“The university’s Senate had deemed the students’ demands as unrealistic, leading to the shutdown of academic activities until further notice.
“Students are to vacate the hostels immediately, while all the relevant units of the university are to take note and comply.
“However, non teaching staff and staff on essential duties are not affected by the shutdown,” said the university’s spokesperson.
The student of the university had earlier took to the streets, to protest weeks of power outages on campus.
Due to the increase in electricity bills the school was not able to reach an agreement with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) which made the BEDC cut power completely from the school.
