The pioneer students of the university of Abuja,
have graduated from the institution after twelve long years.
No less than twelve of the 30 pioneer medical
students of the University of Abuja, who enrolled in 2005, failed their final
examinations, an official has said.
Punch Mero reports that Mr Waziri Garba, the
university’s Deputy Registrar in charge of Information and Publications, on
Monday said that results of the students’ final professional examinations,
released on Nov. 24, showed that five of the 18 successful
medical students
passed with distinction in surgery.
Garba said that the 18 successful students would be
inducted on December 2.
According to him, the induction is significant since
the students were the first set.
“The induction ceremony, which will hold at the main
campus of the university, will feature a lecture by a renowned member of the
medical profession, Prof. Adetokumbo Ademola.
“Ademola is a Professor of Public Health, Obstetrics
and Gynaecology,’’ he said.
Garba said that the pioneer Provost of the
University’s College of Health Sciences, Prof. Jam Otubu, would be honoured at
the event.
The pioneer medical students could not graduate all
the while due to non-accreditation the university’s medicine and surgery course
by the National Universities Commission.
The course has, however, secured full accreditation.
The then Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu
Rufa’i, in April 2012, announced the suspension of medicine, agriculture,
veterinary medicine and engineering courses in the university after a panel set
up to assess needs of universities visited the institution.
The students had staged peaceful protests against
their continued stay in school, demanding to be transferred to other
universities.
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