NDU POSTPONES PAYMENT: IYC INTERVENES, AS STUDENT UNION ENGAGES VC.

• NDU Releases new academic calendar, postpones school fee payment (open link to see date and new calendar)

The leadership of the Ijaw Youths Council  (IYC) Central Zone, ably chaired by Barr. Tare porri, yesterday 4th August, intervened in the Niger Delta University August 9th School fee payment deadline.

The plea which was earlier made by the student union president of Niger Delta University, Comrade Kemes Mitin, who in a previous media chat with newsmen in Amassoma, drew the attention of Ijaw leaders and made an appeal for the aid of students in the institution, over a school fee payment deadline proclaimed by the management, asking students to pay 60% of their fees on or before 9th of August or risk withdrawal from the institution.

Mitin in the media chat with Bodmasnewsblog had lamented on the implications of the management's decision.

" I have engaged different groups and held series of meetings with the school's management to seek extension of payment date for the students, but till this moment no positive result

" If the decision  by the school management  to withdraw students who don't pay their fees scales through more than 10,000 students will be thrown out of school.

I have had a sketchy report from a source , only about  5,000 out of a population of about 15,000 students that have been able to meet the payment of fees for this session, let's also remember that thousands are yet to meet payment for last session, the situation is tensed, students can no longer concentrate". He earlier said.

The student union president therefore pleaded with leaders and elders of Ijaw nation to intervene in the issue.

"I call on our elders, Royal father, politician and all peace loving people of the Ijaw nation to intervene in this issues"
"Bayelsa  is a educationally disadvantaged state ,  such decision will further worsen our plight and it may lead to another round of youth restiveness " he added.

Following the plea, the student representative of the leadership of Ijaw Youths in central zone, Comr. Gesikeme fulutu, led a delegation of the entire zonal executives in an interactive session with the vice-chancellor and the management, in a meeting which lasted for hours.

The Chairman of the zone who was represented in the meeting by the vice-chairman, comr. Amiebi Turner, pleaded with the management to consider the plight of student and reconsider the payment deadline.

Amiebi in the meeting said, if the decision taken by the management takes effect, more than 10, 000 students would be stranded, stating that it may spell doom for the Ijaw Nation, noting that the westerners (yorubas) are far more ahead of us in terms of academic.

The management theerefore after resolved, released a new academic calender, postponing the payment deadline to 18th August 2017, with exams to commence from 21st August, while second semester begins September 18th 2017.

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