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free2ryhme:
You are a nuisance

Hmmm! Endtime boy making an endtime comment.

Practical example of when you have a registrar without a training in educational leadership, only appointed and post had no competition and there is no performance evaluation.
No student deserves to be expelled without facing a board.
But then again its RSUST, this school has all it takes to be excellent in all but it cannot like a curse is on it.
Go to the school and look at the year 1 lectures, its a shame. Lectures held at convocation arena with handheld microphone having all departments in engineering in ONE class, doing what learning physics and chemistry they passed in waec, only from year 2 classes are separated but each class still has about 3 departments in one class except at 300 and 400.
I keep asking,where are their graduates really?

Ibelong2God:
Hmmm! Endtime boy making an endtime comment.

And a nuisance foolish repetition of just two words in any comment

madgoat:
OMG... I AM FEELING SO ANGRY AND BITTER NOW. PLZ LET US ALL PROTEST ONLINE AND GET THIS GIRL RE-ADMITTED INTO THAT SCHOOL. THIS IS A GREAT INJUSTICE DONE TO HER

#bringbackJaneOttah

Nigerian educational system is dominated by educated illiterates and folks with 1612 opinions.

Impunity everywhere........imagine the HOD abi REGISTRAR said that "the letter is infuriating to her".........no hope in Nigeria atall,if the man heads to court it will still be the same thing IMPUNITY EVERYWHERE........... I feel real bad

linearity:
The story clearly state that, she is not special needs and does not require any specifical accommodation; she went to a regular high school and got 3 distinctions and 5 credits....

But it is stated in the article that there was a time she was without her hearing aids and affected her speech and hearing. That makes her a special needs case.

I first saw this post over the weekend. It is highly ridiculous that this could still be happening in this era. When I was studying law in University of Ilorin, we had law students who were completely blind, we had some who were deaf but these set of students did extremely well. There was no discrimination, they were well loved and catered for. Even when other students could not get accommodation on campus, the school usually reserve choice accommodation for these special students. In fact, I finished my LL.M in Unilag last year with one of the aforesaid students. RSUST must apologise to this lady and recall her immediately.

The VC is a useless man.Those who deprived /denied the young lady good thing,may misfortune be their portion.They'll plant and not reapgood thing.May goodness depart from there household.

God bless U.They should forward a petition to the state govt.What nonsense?

Natpat:
I first saw this post over the weekend. It is highly ridiculous that this could still be happening in this era. When I was studying law in University of Ilorin, we had law students who were completely blind, we had some who were deaf but these set of students did extremely well. There was no discrimination, they were well loved and catered for. Even when other students could not get accommodation on campus, the school usually reserve choice accommodation for these special students. In fact, I finished my LL.M in Unilag last year with one of the aforesaid students. RSUST must apologise to this lady and recall her immediately.

She was my junior student at hallel college, I know her very smart girl.

It is quite shameful for a university to act in such a disgraceful manner. Universities like unilorin.unijos,university of ibadan have sign language interpreters to bridge the communication barrier between deaf students and their lecturers.. I am a sign language interpreter and the association of interpreters in Nigeria is sueing the university for denying Jane her rights to education...we have many deaf professionals today who excelled in universities even without interpreters and I know so many that are still in various institutions by virtue of my profession.and the fact is that they are doing very fine.these people are very smart and all they need is encouragement.

EVILFOREST:
He is not half - baked.

He is very sound upstairs.
Just that he is an IKWERRE man.
They are Always stubborn, arrogant and lack aura.
They lack patience, no matter their academic echelon.

Even the Prof. Emeritus among them, still end up marrying upto 4 wives, having long chain of children.
These are people who lived half of their years, abroad.

My definition of 'half-baked' goes beyond academic achievements. Do you think he would survive in a civilized society with this backward mentality?

myners007:
The student opened the letter she was clutching in her hands and felt the walls around her crumble.

As Jane Ottah stood outside her departmental office at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, the reality of what she had just read began to gradually sink in.

“What I saw in the letter was the shock of my life,” said Ms. Ottah, 28, who was in her first year in the Department of Educational Foundation.

“This was a thing I will never believe, this was the one thing that could have taken away my life if it wasn’t for the help of my friends‎ who were there when I was about to faint.”

‎On January 30, 2015, the university terminated Ms. Ottah’s admission over claims of speech and hearing challenges.

“I am directed to state that during your recent medical examination in the Health Services Department, it was observed that you are medically challenged and have hearing and speech difficulties,” read the letter signed‎ by C.M Ewhorlu, Principal Assistant Registrar (Senate) of the university.

“I am further directed to state that as a result of these difficulties our team of medical personnel found it impossible to communicate with you.

“Since the University ‎does not have special communication facilities, the Vice-Chancellor has directed that you be de-registered on health grounds. I am in the circumstance, directed to inform you that you have been de-registered on health grounds with immediate effect.

“You are therefore advised to hand over all University property(ies) in your possession to your Head of Department and thereafter leave the campus.”

A ‘Special’ Student?

‎Despite the university’s claims that she was a special student, Ms. Ottah insisted she had no such challenges.

After initially applying to study Business Administration at the university, Ms. Ottah was offered an admission to read Educational Foundations in September 2014.

When the school reopened a month later, she joined other fresh students for the admission formalities, which included a medical check-up at the institution’s medical centre.

“As soon as I went there and I was asked what is wrong with my voice, I told the doctor that I have a voice problem, that I can talk but at times my voice is somehow,” Ms. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES during a Whatsapp chat.

“I was not with my hearing aid the day I went there., and she (the doctor) didn’t understand me very well but the other younger doctor was there as well who was asking me questions about what happened to my voice and I decided to tell her about my hearing problem as well‎.

“And she asked me some questions like how did it happened and I told her. She seemed to understand me a bit but the elder doctor didn’t‎.

“And she asked about my eyes just because I was putting on glasses‎. And I told her that I do have eyes problem‎ and she checked my eyes and put it down on a book‎.

‎”And she asked me if I was sick as a kid because of my hearing loss. I told her no. It just happened in a way that one can’t tell.

“So she asked about my secondary school, if it was a deaf school. I told her no‎, it’s not a deaf school I went to‎‎.”

According to her West African Examination Council result made available to PREMIUM TIMES,‎ Ms. Ottah‎ finished from Hallel College in Rumuogba, Port Harcourt, with three distinctions and five credits.

At the university medical centre, Ms. Ottah said she overheard the doctors discussing the possibility of her coping with the academic rigours.

“From that day, nothing was bad. I was busy with assignment, project, test, and planning for my first semester exams in February,” she said.

The school went on Christmas break on December‎ 22, 2014, and resumed on January 5th, 2015.

Everything seemed fine for Ms. Ottah.

Until the first semester examination began.

“On the first paper, there was a paper that the lecturer will give you to sign if your name is there, and if you see your name on the list you have to sign there and I did mine,” she said.

Ms. Ottah said she signed against her name during her second and third‎ papers.

However, on the day of the fourth paper, trouble surfaced.

“I didn’t see my name on the list to sign and I was worried that I asked my course mate and she direct me to go to the ICT centre to check,” she said.

“I went there with two of my course mates and we were told that they couldn’t find my name on the list but my name was there and that they‎ couldn’t see the course I requested, and I was told it was from the medical centre. They blocked me from there.

“And I went with my course mate and met with the doctor, crying with a shaky voice which made her not to understand what I was talking about and I decided to call my friend to speak on my behalf. For example, I will talk to her and she will tell them what I am saying‎.

‎”As soon as we were done talking, the doctor said she once one told me that day I was in her office that I should come the other day but I didn’t. I was so busy that I forget about it. She sent me to my Department Office.”

It was at the Department Office that a lady delivered the letter which bore the shattering news to Ms. Ottah.

“‎In school, no one ever knew about my hearing problem, it was just my voice they knew,” she said.

Embarrassed dad

Benedict Ottah, her father, described the letter as a “serious embarrassment”.

“I drove to the school, met the HOD, unfortunately, she didn’t attend to me in a way that she should,” Mr. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone.

“And I put up a letter demanding her (his daughter’s) instant recall. They refused. All of a sudden the HOD sent me back to the Medical Board. Only to be informed by the Medical Board that I should write a letter to the VC.

“I later wrote a letter to the VC, copied the Medical Board, the HOD, and the registrar who wrote the letter.”

‎In his letter to the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Ottah appealed for his daughter’s re-registration, noting that she had been taking her lectures and doing her class assignments without stress or complaints.

“I wish to state that on 2nd March, 2015, in the office of the HOD of Technical and Science Educational Foundations, Jane Ihuoma Ottah demonstrated clearly to the witness of the HOD her hearing and responding ability different from what was stated in the above letter,” Mr. Ottah wrote in the letter dated 2nd March, 2015.

“This demonstratio‎n was made possible while she wore her hearing aids. The same demonstration repeated again when she was referred to meet the Medical Director, Medical Services on same 2nd March 2015 in the office of the Medical Director himself.

“However, Jane Ihuoma Ottah did not attend the medical observation with her hearing, ear-aids the day she was scheduled. Furthermore, I wish the Medical Services may conduct another examination that she should be allowed to use her hearing aids. I am optimistic that this report will be put to rest.”

‎About two weeks after he wrote to the university, Mr. Ottah said he returned to the school only to be told by the head of her daughter’s department that the letter was “infuriating to her”.

‎”I told her what transpired in her office was exactly what I communicated, and then you are blaming me. All of a sudden she demanded that I should leave her office. Honestly I was seriously embarrassed,” he said.

“Only to go back to the VC secretary, I was being turned up, come back today, come back tomorrow. I ended up ‎without no response up till date. They did not respond to my letter.

“The university has just denied her the opportunity to be in school. I know my daughter has a problem‎ but she had every opportunity up till today.”

When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Blessing Didia, said he had never heard of Ms. Ottah’s case.

“The matter happened in January as you said. I came from the University of Port Harcourt to become VC here in August,” Mr. Didia, a professor of medicine said. “This is the first time I have heard about the case.”

When asked whether he would review the case now that he is aware, Mr. Didia said, “They don’t admit deaf and dumb here. And if what you said really happened, the vice chancellor then must have seen reasons why she could not be taught here.”

‎Efforts to reach the school’s Registrar were unsuccessful and an e-mail sent to the school’s official mail address was not replied.

Ms. Ottah said she had remained at home since her dismissal – weeping over her misfortune and praying – while her friends are now in 200 level in the school.

“I never thought that Rivers State University of Science can send me away like this,” she said.

“‎Discrimination needs to stop. Everyone has the right to be educated no matter the conditions one is facing.”

The International Ford Fellowships Alumni Association Nigeria (IFFPAN), which first brought the student’s ordeal to the attention of this newspaper, has condemned the action of the University.

Speaking through its president, Faruk Sarkinfada, a professor, it said, “It is regrettable that a University in Nigeria in the 21st century can discriminate against any citizen on account of her disability.

“Her right to Education has been breached. The aspect of her life that must be telling her she is not wanted in our society will unfortunately impact negatively on her whole being.

“The university should review its decision and reinstate her, so that she can acquire tertiary education like her contemporaries.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/194029-shocking-rivers-university-expels-student-for-having-speech-and-hearing-challenges.html

This is why universities in Nigeria can never be amongst 1000th best universities in the whole world. Myopic lecturers coupled with lazy administration.

And dis gurl went to my sec schl, her WAEC grades r perfect, i will advise de family takes it as a blessing and nt a cures. Cuz RUST will make her loose those grades and nt do so well in schl. Enroll her in a private uni wit less crowd.

slap1:
My definition of 'half-baked' goes beyond academic achievements. Do you think he would survive in a civilized society with this backward mentality?

I get U.
The Prof. Needs to update the anti-virus of his memory

wont this wonderful girl be better than those miscreants who are initiated into cult groups and running around the place missing classes...,,At most rsust should have referred her to a school that would better handle her problem...sometimes i think the lack of fellow human feelings is what has led Nigeria to where it is...

RUST NA SCHOOL?

If dem dey call school too, dem go come out? Most students in RUST are the ones that could not gain admission into UNIPORT.

Please leave that school with Randy Rivers men as lecturers.

I would say sue them, but in Nigeria, the legal system is shit too.

Let us hope since your case has gained media attention, something will be done.

They should transfer her and not expel her

here:
Practical example of when you have a registrar without a training in educational leadership, only appointed and post had no competition and there is no performance evaluation.
No student deserves to be expelled without facing a board.
But then again its RSUST, this school has all it takes to be excellent in all but it cannot like a curse is on it.
Go to the school and look at the year 1 lectures, its a shame. Lectures held at convocation arena with handheld microphone having all departments in engineering in ONE class, doing what learning physics and chemistry they passed in waec, only from year 2 classes are separated but each class still has about 3 departments in one class except at 300 and 400.
I keep asking,where are their graduates really?

you a ust graduate

dabriggs:
RUST NA SCHOOL?

If dem dey call school too, dem go come out? Most students in RUST are the ones that could not gain admission into UNIPORT.

Please leave that school with Randy Rivers men as lecturers.

I would say sue them, but in Nigeria, the legal system is shit too.

Let us hope since your case has gained media attention, something will be done.

the bolded is true...there is no justice fo the ordinary man out there..

SenJoe:
Nigeria educational sector is without void and form and our prospective siblings are hovering around the surface of the deep.

...and what should you say?

free2ryhme:
And a nuisance foolish repetition of just two words in any comment

hmm! Endtime insults

No one calls them DEAF and DUMB, it's an insult. DUMB is even particularly offensive.

These people have no business running an institution.

I wish one of the private universities can give her placement.

Foolish people.

myners007:
The student opened the letter she was clutching in her hands and felt the walls around her crumble.

As Jane Ottah stood outside her departmental office at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, the reality of what she had just read began to gradually sink in.

“What I saw in the letter was the shock of my life,” said Ms. Ottah, 28, who was in her first year in the Department of Educational Foundation.

“This was a thing I will never believe, this was the one thing that could have taken away my life if it wasn’t for the help of my friends‎ who were there when I was about to faint.”

‎On January 30, 2015, the university terminated Ms. Ottah’s admission over claims of speech and hearing challenges.

“I am directed to state that during your recent medical examination in the Health Services Department, it was observed that you are medically challenged and have hearing and speech difficulties,” read the letter signed‎ by C.M Ewhorlu, Principal Assistant Registrar (Senate) of the university.

“I am further directed to state that as a result of these difficulties our team of medical personnel found it impossible to communicate with you.

“Since the University ‎does not have special communication facilities, the Vice-Chancellor has directed that you be de-registered on health grounds. I am in the circumstance, directed to inform you that you have been de-registered on health grounds with immediate effect.

“You are therefore advised to hand over all University property(ies) in your possession to your Head of Department and thereafter leave the campus.”

A ‘Special’ Student?

‎Despite the university’s claims that she was a special student, Ms. Ottah insisted she had no such challenges.

After initially applying to study Business Administration at the university, Ms. Ottah was offered an admission to read Educational Foundations in September 2014.

When the school reopened a month later, she joined other fresh students for the admission formalities, which included a medical check-up at the institution’s medical centre.

“As soon as I went there and I was asked what is wrong with my voice, I told the doctor that I have a voice problem, that I can talk but at times my voice is somehow,” Ms. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES during a Whatsapp chat.

“I was not with my hearing aid the day I went there., and she (the doctor) didn’t understand me very well but the other younger doctor was there as well who was asking me questions about what happened to my voice and I decided to tell her about my hearing problem as well‎.

“And she asked me some questions like how did it happened and I told her. She seemed to understand me a bit but the elder doctor didn’t‎.

“And she asked about my eyes just because I was putting on glasses‎. And I told her that I do have eyes problem‎ and she checked my eyes and put it down on a book‎.

‎”And she asked me if I was sick as a kid because of my hearing loss. I told her no. It just happened in a way that one can’t tell.

“So she asked about my secondary school, if it was a deaf school. I told her no‎, it’s not a deaf school I went to‎‎.”

According to her West African Examination Council result made available to PREMIUM TIMES,‎ Ms. Ottah‎ finished from Hallel College in Rumuogba, Port Harcourt, with three distinctions and five credits.

At the university medical centre, Ms. Ottah said she overheard the doctors discussing the possibility of her coping with the academic rigours.

“From that day, nothing was bad. I was busy with assignment, project, test, and planning for my first semester exams in February,” she said.

The school went on Christmas break on December‎ 22, 2014, and resumed on January 5th, 2015.

Everything seemed fine for Ms. Ottah.

Until the first semester examination began.

“On the first paper, there was a paper that the lecturer will give you to sign if your name is there, and if you see your name on the list you have to sign there and I did mine,” she said.

Ms. Ottah said she signed against her name during her second and third‎ papers.

However, on the day of the fourth paper, trouble surfaced.

“I didn’t see my name on the list to sign and I was worried that I asked my course mate and she direct me to go to the ICT centre to check,” she said.

“I went there with two of my course mates and we were told that they couldn’t find my name on the list but my name was there and that they‎ couldn’t see the course I requested, and I was told it was from the medical centre. They blocked me from there.

“And I went with my course mate and met with the doctor, crying with a shaky voice which made her not to understand what I was talking about and I decided to call my friend to speak on my behalf. For example, I will talk to her and she will tell them what I am saying‎.

‎”As soon as we were done talking, the doctor said she once one told me that day I was in her office that I should come the other day but I didn’t. I was so busy that I forget about it. She sent me to my Department Office.”

It was at the Department Office that a lady delivered the letter which bore the shattering news to Ms. Ottah.

“‎In school, no one ever knew about my hearing problem, it was just my voice they knew,” she said.

Embarrassed dad

Benedict Ottah, her father, described the letter as a “serious embarrassment”.

“I drove to the school, met the HOD, unfortunately, she didn’t attend to me in a way that she should,” Mr. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone.

“And I put up a letter demanding her (his daughter’s) instant recall. They refused. All of a sudden the HOD sent me back to the Medical Board. Only to be informed by the Medical Board that I should write a letter to the VC.

“I later wrote a letter to the VC, copied the Medical Board, the HOD, and the registrar who wrote the letter.”

‎In his letter to the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Ottah appealed for his daughter’s re-registration, noting that she had been taking her lectures and doing her class assignments without stress or complaints.

“I wish to state that on 2nd March, 2015, in the office of the HOD of Technical and Science Educational Foundations, Jane Ihuoma Ottah demonstrated clearly to the witness of the HOD her hearing and responding ability different from what was stated in the above letter,” Mr. Ottah wrote in the letter dated 2nd March, 2015.

“This demonstratio‎n was made possible while she wore her hearing aids. The same demonstration repeated again when she was referred to meet the Medical Director, Medical Services on same 2nd March 2015 in the office of the Medical Director himself.

“However, Jane Ihuoma Ottah did not attend the medical observation with her hearing, ear-aids the day she was scheduled. Furthermore, I wish the Medical Services may conduct another examination that she should be allowed to use her hearing aids. I am optimistic that this report will be put to rest.”

‎About two weeks after he wrote to the university, Mr. Ottah said he returned to the school only to be told by the head of her daughter’s department that the letter was “infuriating to her”.

‎”I told her what transpired in her office was exactly what I communicated, and then you are blaming me. All of a sudden she demanded that I should leave her office. Honestly I was seriously embarrassed,” he said.

“Only to go back to the VC secretary, I was being turned up, come back today, come back tomorrow. I ended up ‎without no response up till date. They did not respond to my letter.

“The university has just denied her the opportunity to be in school. I know my daughter has a problem‎ but she had every opportunity up till today.”

When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Blessing Didia, said he had never heard of Ms. Ottah’s case.

“The matter happened in January as you said. I came from the University of Port Harcourt to become VC here in August,” Mr. Didia, a professor of medicine said. “This is the first time I have heard about the case.”

When asked whether he would review the case now that he is aware, Mr. Didia said, “They don’t admit deaf and dumb here. And if what you said really happened, the vice chancellor then must have seen reasons why she could not be taught here.”

‎Efforts to reach the school’s Registrar were unsuccessful and an e-mail sent to the school’s official mail address was not replied.

Ms. Ottah said she had remained at home since her dismissal – weeping over her misfortune and praying – while her friends are now in 200 level in the school.

“I never thought that Rivers State University of Science can send me away like this,” she said.

“‎Discrimination needs to stop. Everyone has the right to be educated no matter the conditions one is facing.”

The International Ford Fellowships Alumni Association Nigeria (IFFPAN), which first brought the student’s ordeal to the attention of this newspaper, has condemned the action of the University.

Speaking through its president, Faruk Sarkinfada, a professor, it said, “It is regrettable that a University in Nigeria in the 21st century can discriminate against any citizen on account of her disability.

“Her right to Education has been breached. The aspect of her life that must be telling her she is not wanted in our society will unfortunately impact negatively on her whole being.

“The university should review its decision and reinstate her, so that she can acquire tertiary education like her contemporaries.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/194029-shocking-rivers-university-expels-student-for-having-speech-and-hearing-challenges.html

make she apply ABU or UNILORIN asap

I pray she gets the justice she deserves.

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Ibelong2God:
I will come back and read to ascertain if it's an endtime story

if u actually belong to God like ur name implies then u shuld know when to say somfin reasonable, dis is a fellow human being lamenting here and u are trying to make a joke outta it with ur endtime shit, grow up mheen

Wickedness!why can't they give her transfer to a sch with those facility?

dantori, you are a joke, quoting the whole epistle.

dominique:
But it is stated in the article that there was a time she was without her hearing aids and affected her speech and hearing. That makes her a special needs case.

Not really special, in the sense that she has passed all her exams--waec, jamb-- b4 without much qualms/ special material provision 4 the exams. She does nt disturb or rely on any special aid dat disturb/stress any1 to pass her exams/assighment.
Dey should mark d exams/papers she wrote in 1st yr, without bais, and compare with her mates.
I dnt no y many ppl hv hardened- heart.
If d gal is d VC's daughter, will she treat/disregard/dismiss her like dat?
Dat means the school with cancel d admission all d students in the sch dat make use of medicated glasses; as in, student dat can't do without it naaah. Nonsense.
May God help her

dominique:
But it is stated in the article that there was a time she was without her hearing aids and affected her speech and hearing. That makes her a special needs case.

I understand your point, but that is not the definition of special needs, else most people will fall into that category e.g. People who use glasses, etc.

In this situation, special needs will be an individual, who the institution have to make additional accommodation towards that is not done to every other students, in order to meet their needs, and people in this category often request for this type of special accommodation.

She was just fine, did not request for special accommodation, all that happened was she forgot her hearing aid. And here is the real discrimination, if someone who can see moderately but have poor eye sight that prevents them from seeing far off e.g. sitting far off in the lecture theater; walks into that medical examining room without their glasses and they tested their ability to see further, to see if they can cope in the lecture room and that individual fail the test, do you think they will send that person away from school? The reasonable response will be to ask that person to go bring his/her eye glasses, which would have been the same response here.