DAMATURU—Aggrieved students of
Shehu Sule School of Nursing in Damaturu, Yobe State, Thursday storm the
streets, protesting the sale of handouts by teachers, who insist students must
buy them before passing examinations.
The aggrieved students also
blocked major highways, aside from disrupting academic activities in the institution.
The students, in their hundreds,
also accused the Principal of the school, Mallam Musa Amshi, of conniving with
teachers of the institution to deprive them of their rights to pass exams
unless they bought handouts and pamphlets produced by the teachers.
It was gathered that only 30 of
the 95 final year students of the institution passed the end of term
examinations because they bought the handouts, while over 30 were withdrawn as
30 others were asked to repeat due to their inability to buy handouts, which
price ranges from N500 to N1,000.
It took the intervention of a
team of anti-riot policemen, who used tear-gas, to control the protesting
students.
It was also learned that the
principal of the school and some teachers narrowly escaped being attacked by
the rampaging students.
At press time, calm had returned
to the school, with heavily armed security personnel present at the scene.
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