Friday, 27 June 2014

Uproar over missing student

Wonders they say will never end, as this goes with a recent incident in the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Ogba, has a National Diploma One student, Deborah Abidemi Adedeji has been claimed missing for over three days.
Adedeji, who did not start the second semester examination with her colleagues, has been said to have abscond from her parents' house for the fear of being pregnant.
According to her mother, Mrs Adedeji, who visited the Institute campus yesterday said it might be as a result of her first semester results, which she performed below expectations, that she is not pregnant.
"She is not pregnant and if she is, that does not give room for her to run away, but i suspect that it might be as a result of last semester results, which she performed below expectations" the mother said in Yoruba.
Having earlier linked her absence from home to a full-time student colleague, Onotanemere John, that he usually take her out to church vigils and programmes, Onotanemere, in a quick reaction denied it, saying "I just know her in the class and we don't talk, talk less of taking her out, moreover I always go home every weekend, so that does not give me chance to leave the confines of the school on weekdays".
However, hands are still on deck to know the whereabouts of Deborah, as the case have been reported to the Management of the Institute.

Lecturer denies students to write exam

Over 5 National Diploma one students of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Ogba, were today sent out of the examination hall, thereby denying them to write the exam.
The exam, which is Citizenship Education II, is their fifth paper of the week. The lecturer, Tene John, gave his reason for sending them out, as not meeting up with the 70% attendance requirement.
Reacting to this, a student (who does not want his name in print) said the action was a good one, as it would let students know their purpose of coming down here to learn and not to play.
He also said, it is on the path of the Institute to discipline any student who fails to meet up with the required minimum attendance before writing an exam.
In a swift reaction, the Students' Representative Council (SRC) through its Chairman, Ojebola Matthew, frowned at the action, saying it is not that good, and he tried to pacify the lecturer, and he did not give him the chance to do that.