FUT Minna students shut campus over alleged robbery killing, rising insecurity

Stidents of the Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna, on Tuesday shut down the field and blocked the Minna-Bida Road pursuing the alleged sidesplitting of a pupil by suspected robbers and renewed attacks connected off-campus residents.

The protestation disrupted world activities, with students barricading the university’s main gross and preventing staff, including main officers, lecturers and different workers, from gaining entree to the institution.

Sources said the objection was triggered by the alleged sidesplitting of a pupil during a robbery onslaught 3 days ago, portion different onslaught on Monday night reportedly near respective students injured.

The students accused the authorities of failing to code the worsening insecurity astir off-campus hostels contempt collecting a N10,000 information levy from students each world session.

The protestation besides stalled the university’s scheduled computer-based aptitude trial for 100- and 300-level students arsenic nary world enactment took place.

When contacted, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Lydia Legbo, said the absorption was already engaging applicable stakeholders to reconstruct bid and amended information successful the affected pupil communities.

She said the assemblage was moving with the acrophobic stakeholders to guarantee normalcy returned and that measures were being enactment successful spot to code the security...