Nigerian Maritime University On Verge Of Collapse, Says Ijaw Youth Council

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Nigerian%20Maritime%20University%201 Nigerian Maritime University On Verge Of Collapse, Says Ijaw Youth Council

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has said the newly established Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Delta State is on the “verge of collapse”.

According to the group, the institute is now in a “sorry state” and has been “completely abandoned”.

A statement by Roland Pereotubo Oweilaemi, the IYC President, noted that the pitiable condition of the institution “threatened its continued existence”.

The statement read: “The Council, on our unscheduled visit to the school, was made to understand that the Federal Government only paid N2billion out of the N5billion take-off grant it earlier pledged to pay. Even the N3billion financial appropriation in the 2018 budget for the school has not been released to it. As we speak now, majority of the staff have deserted the school as the institution is unable to pay its staff for many months, while the Vice Chancellor of the…



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