One of the students made this known in a series of videos made available to SaharaReporters showing dirty toilets, bathrooms and other facilities in the hostels.
Students of Baze University in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja have lamented the bad state of their hall of residence despite paying over N1 million per session for a bed space, feeding and other hostel charges.
One of the students made this known in a series of videos made available to SaharaReporters showing dirty toilets, bathrooms and other facilities in the hostels.
“See everywhere is dirty. See the toilet. There is no water at all. And even if you look at the rooms, the rooms are so bad. Bad is even like a minute adjective for me to qualify the state of the hostel.
“And even the CCTV camera is not even working. When someone comes to steal from your room, if you go to them that you want to check the CCTV camera, there is nothing. It is not working. It is just for decoration,” the video maker narrated in the video.
He said that students sometimes go to the courtyard to bathe.
In the video, students are also seen brushing their teeth with sachet water.
The narrator went on to say that they pay more than N1 million per year for hostels but receive the services of a N20,000 hostel. He further said that the university misleads Nigerians by presenting photos of lovely hostels while the opposite is the truth.
This comes amid a series of controversies trailing a five-year ban imposed on the university by Nigerian Law School.
Baze University was founded by Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election.
SaharaReporters had reported how the Nigerian Law School banned Baze University from admitting students into its law faculty for consistently violating its admission quota of 50 students per session as approved by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) in November.
The imposition of the moratorium followed the findings of the Council of Legal Education which showed that the university’s law faculty currently had a backlog of over 347 law students waiting to be admitted into the law school.
All efforts made by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the school on the issues were not successful.
Two of the three contact phone numbers obtained from the school’s official website were not reachable.
The only one that was reached was answered by an official of the university who said that he was not in the best position to speak on the matter and refused to provide SaharaReporters with the phone number of the person in the best position to do so.