Twelve of the 30 pioneer medical students of the
University of Abuja, who enrolled in 2005, failed their final examinations, an
official has said.
Mr. Waziri Garba, the university’s Deputy Registrar in
charge of Information and Publications, made this known in an interview with
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
He 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 Dec. 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 told NAN that the pioneer Provost of the
University’s College of Health Sciences, Prof. Jam Otubu, would be honoured at
the event.
NAN reports that 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 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 sometimes staged
peaceful protests against their continued stay in school, demanding to be
transferred to other universities.
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