Year one medical students of University of Lagos, (Unilag), has urged a Federal High Court seating in Lagos to stop the school’s Senate from effecting an allegedly changed to the academic requirement they needed to proceed to 200-level.
In the suit to be heard by Justice Sule Hassan on Tuesday ( today), the aggrieved students through their counsel, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, wants the court to declare the Unilag Senate’s decision as nullity and without effect.
They claimed that the university senate’s decision to change the requirement for them to proceed to 200 level late in January was an attempt to weed them out of the university in order to make rooms for diploma students who had paid Five hundred thousand naira (N500,000), to the institution’s College of Medicine.
They, among others, also sought an order of “removing and reviewing the decision.”
The students were those admitted to the university in the 2014/2015 academic year to study Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry, Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Pharmacology, Physiology and Radiography.
According to the medical students, their admission followed their successful performance in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and the post-UTME set by the University.
