Hardship: Our condition now terrible, hazardous, UNIZIK students cry out

Justice Bright, Awka

Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, are groaning over the increasing hardship,cost of living and cost of education in the country.

The students said the current economic situation is becoming terrible and that the pressure of surviving as a student in a higher institution is becoming difficult.

A student who identified himself as Promise Benjamin from the Mass Communication department, during an interview with www.odogwublog.com, said the challenges are the high cost of things around the school area.

He said the tuition fee has been increased recently, but with no reflection on the infrastructure and services available to them in his institution.

The student said: “Our lodges are without water despite the outrageous prices we pay. There is power failure within and outside the school environment. The transportation cost is increasing every day making the sun
to hammer us while going and coming back from lectures and other school activities.”

Promise further stated that recently, he has been considering the option of dropping out from school, ever since he got to know that the school is obsessed with tasking students financially at any slightest event.

Another student of Mass Communication, Samuel Chibuike, regretted that the school has failed to give a facelift to facilities despite the increments in tuition fees and developmental levies.

He added: “The school is just being over-hyped by those not on the know what the students go through internally.”

Also, Precious Ifeoma from the Department of Anthropology said she has been fetching water from the outside space down to her lodge for over four days. According to her, “Some of us have even adopted it as a consistent activity, having lost hope in the Students Union Government.

Most of the students wore gloomy faces trekking under the scourging sun. They gave one complaint or the other, lamenting that they could not wait to return to their respective homes as soon as the examinations are over.