Isiaq Ibrahim and Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen report
The students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have pleaded to the school
management to extend the period of the screening and verification exercise of the 2022/2023 academic session.
Recall that according to the scheduled time table released by certificate and testimonial verification committee signed by the chairman of the committee, Prof. A. M. Inuwa, the screening exercise will be held on 11th September to 23rd of September, 2023.
However, the students have pleaded with the school management to reconsider its stand and extend the period to a favorable date.
Speaking with The News Digest Press, Abdulrahman saheed, a 200-level student of Chemical and Life Science expressed his dissatisfaction over the short time slated for the verification.
“The school management should consider people who are far away to spend their holiday – Kwara State, Lagos State, among others. I know the stress I went through and the amount of money I had spent for the transport fare, from Sokoto to Ilorin, Kwara state.”
“Let it be exactly the way we usually sign course registration or submit the yellow files, the verification can span the months of September, October and November,” he added.
I Need to Hustle for Money Before I Resume Back to School—Musa
Musa Hussaini, a 300-Level student of Faculty of Education and Extension Services, lamented how the period for the verification will take a toll on his preparation for the second semester.
He said that as a student of the Faculty of Education and Extension Services, at the end of second semester, he has to wait for Teaching Practice (TP).
“The date for the verification will affect my life in the second semester and my school registration in the next session, because I will not be able to gather money as I planned for. I hope the school management should help us to extend the registration by one month.”
Also, speaking with Soliu Ridwanullahi, a 100-Level student of History and International Studies department, and a native of Ilorin, recounted how he spent N11,000 for transport, hoping that he will spent at least three weeks at home to hustle for money, before he resumed back to school.
“I left the school varsity on 25th August to my city – Ilorin, my expectation was to stay long at home, but unfortunately my expectation went astray.”
Kehinde said that he cannot afford to go back to Sokoto at this moment because he has not been able to work as he expected.
Azeez Quadri, a 400-level student of Sociology on his own part said: “I felt depressed the day I saw the notification concerning that verification. That was the day I reached Ilorin. I cannot meet up with the scheduled date unless there is a further extension.”
We Have Met the Management to Deliberate About the Extension—SU CTC
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Chairman of the Students’ Union Caretaker Committee, Ibrahim Sanusi told the News Digest Press
that he had met with the school management to plead on the students behalf to extend the verification date.
“The verification was organized by the school management due to some reasons known to the school. But for sure it is for the betterment and well being of the students and university,” he said.
“As the students’ representatives, we met with the school management regarding the issue, and I prayed we would have a positive response from them.”
“On behalf of the students for the extension of the date, we believe the management will speak to that effect before or after the commencement of the verification,”he added.