UNIBEN Female Students & Their Luggage Outside Waiting For Hostel Allocation (Photos)

You’d think that a university as old as UNIBEN would have mastered its act and learnt from its past mistakes right? well that is not the case at all actually. the picture below shows students outside hall 2, a girls’ hostel, throats dry from the sun kissing them right on the head as they waited to enter the hostel. I’ll tell you why this has become a reoccurring event.

UNIBEN doesn’t start it’s hostel application early enough. it waits until the start of a new session before starting its bed allocation process. It is thus forced to provide temporary accommodation for students. Girls are sent to hall 4(a Boys’ hostel) and guys sent to hall 2(a girls’hostel) and then ask everyone out when it has finished allocating bed spaces.
So girls move out for guys who were allocated spaces to occupy the hostel and vice versa. That’s what’s going on in the attached pictures.

Now, coupled with the fact that it doesn’t start its application early, the process is riddled with so much corruption. Only those who have connections in high places are sure of anything. Most times people end up stranded, without accommodation due to the transparency lacking in the process.

More shocking, laughable actually, is the fact that this application is done online. But you don’t get allocated a bed immediately after applying online. Why? then they wouldn’t be able to manipulate the process now, would they? so you have to wait for a list to be pasted showing the names of those allocated bed spaces.

Well, students were asked out of temporary accommodation after pasting just a few lists.
did i mention this happens every year?