UNILAG Medical Students To Be Reinstated on HWN HIGHLIGHT

A Federal High Court Presided over by Justice Sule Hassan has ordered University of Lagos to reinstate some thirty one medical students back to their faculty of choice.

This order was made as a result of the suit filed by before the court by the student that hoping to continue their medical studies on to confronted with an order to resume the new semester in a different department by the school’s authority.

They had their 100 level in the faculty of medicine, but were denied the opportunity to proceed to 200 level of the same course.

In the suit filed on the behalf, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, at the Federal High Court, they student challenged, what they called, ”the senate’s arbitrary decision.”

They demanded among other things, that the court should order the school’s senate to reverse the alleged arbitrary upward review of requirement for 100 level medical students to proceed to the next level of their course of choice and allow them to proceed with their programs.

The university had blocked some of the 2014/2015 medical students from proceeding to the College of Medicine, after introducing the new academic qualifications in the middle of the school’s academic calendar.

Based on the new rules, the school placed the students in departments other than the ones where they had studied in their first year.

Justice Hassan, sitting in Lagos in an interim judgement, ordered the Unilag’s senate to reinstate the students back into the Faculty of Medicine.

He also ordered that the university should maintain the state of affairs before the dispute, pending when the substantive suit would be heard on April 1, 2016.

The student had earlier alleged that the school authorities wanted to get rid of them to accommodate the diploma students, from whom the sum of five hundred thousand naira (N500,000) were collected.

Source: BWN, HWN AFRICA.