Public Appeal To University Of Lagos Mgt : ”Please Allow Us Graduate From Your Masters Program After 4 Years”- Unilag MSc Student
April 28, 2015

Public Appeal To University Of Lagos Mgt : ”Please Allow Us Graduate From Your Masters Program After 4 Years”- Unilag MSc Student
A Student of the University of Lagos Post Graduate studies, names withheld reached out to us (www.omojuwa.com) about an issue with his academics that he and students in his class, had with the authorities of Unilag since 2012 and is seeking public help, to reach relevant authorities, to intervene and help them find a possibility of ending this age long school ordeal read his story below.
I resumed for MSc at the department of geosciences, University of Lagos as one of the pioneer student for the department’s first academic post graduate studies, that was in october 2011. Being the pioneer set, there was no existing structure on ground even as regards tuition, we paid the same rate part time students from other departments paid but those didn’t cause any issue because we had the will and we were all willing to commit ourselves so that in the coming years we would be back for our PhDs.
By october 2012, we had finished all the exams (first and second semesters)we had our fieldwork in december of the same year and started our research work. The research work took us more than a year due to the nature of data acquisition and the selfishness of our supervisors. A number of my classmates spent close to 300000 naira (Especially those with geology options) to send samples from the field to canada and Germany since their supervisors discredited sample analysis from Nigeria (Some of these thesis are already being used to write papers in the supervisors name already)
By the second year (2013), we were asked to pay an additional 91000 when we had already paid in excess of 100000 than any other full time student in the university, at this junction, we had to write letters to the dean of students and the dean of postgraduate school this was when the dean of postgraduate school told us we cannot graduate with the numbers of courses we enrolled for and the department was asked to do something about it. And because of this, many of us have been targets by some of the senior lectures in the department.
We were finally able to do our seminar and defense by october 2014 and we were dead certain that we would be presented for graduation but unfortunately our names did not feature in the convocation list as our results were not yet approved. We realized that our results have not even been uploaded for pg school to approve, all efforts to ensure that this issue is solved has been futile as the course adviser who is to do the upload has refused to answer his phone since yesterday after all the efforts that have been put in place by members of my class to liaise with the officer in charge of result uploading and IT in pg school.
We are the first set from this department ( previous postgraduate degrees have been professional degrees), there is at least 2 set on ground now and not one person is been presented for graduation. As much as we desire the anonymity of our message, we want our voices heard loud and clear. This injustice must stop, we should not be made to pay for the failures of others.
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Geoscience - I dread that department
The students concerned should continue complaining and also continue writing letters to the Dean of Student affairs and also I heard they want to conduct elections for the post of a new Dean for PGS and so the present Dean won't attend to you, that's another palava on its own.
But 4 years studying MSc.... Unilag, smh.