Academic Requirement: UNILAG Medical Students Get Court Order

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday has ordered the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Senate not to give effect to its decision to upwardly review the academic requirement for medical students in 100 level to proceed to 200 level. The judge, Justice Sule Hassan said it would be in the interest of the institution to hold action on its decision it made on January 27 pending the hearing and determination of a suit filed by some aggrieved medical students to challenge the decision. The Justice gave the order in a positive response to an ex parte application argued by the medical students lawyer, Mr. Jiti Ogunye. The students had approached the judge, claiming that the alleged upward review of academic requirement for them to proceed from 100 level to 200 level was “an attempt to weed them out of the university.” The students also accused UNILAG of raising the academic requirement in order to accommodate diploma students, who allegedly paid N500,000 to the institution’s College of Medicine. According to the students, they were admitted to the university in the 2014/2015 academic year to study Medicine and Surgery, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Pharmacology, Physiology, Dentistry, Medical Laboratory Science and Radiography. And their admission process followed a successful performance in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and the post-UTME set by UNILAG. The students urged the court to hold that the suit they filed would act as an order for the university to hold action on the decision till the case was finally heard and determined by the court. After listening to the medical students lawyer on Tuesday, Justice Hassan, however, ordered both parties to maintain status quo ante bellum pending further hearing. Thanks for reading.

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