Why are you still admitting people into the MBBS programme?
YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GRADUATED 44 DOCTORS SINCE LAST YEAR!
Everyone on the management board of this university is extremely wicked. Haba na.
In 2024, while serving as the National Secretary General of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association (NiMSA), accreditation-related challenges were among the major issues we addressed, particularly those involving Ambrose Alli University (AAU) and a similar situation at Rivers State University.
River state University situation was ultimately nullified. But at AAU, medical students preparing to sit for their MB examinations were presented with a document to sign on the very morning of their exams. They were given no prior explanation of its contents and, given the circumstances, had little or no choice but to comply. This action was inconsistent with the provisions of the University’s prospectus.
Rather than addressing the underlying accreditation concerns through appropriate institutional processes, the authorities appeared to adopt measures aimed at mitigating the immediate consequences, with the affected medical students effectively becoming the experimental subjects of those decisions.
When this happened, I engaged with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and NiMSA secretariat was invited to the Young Doctor Interactive Session in Borno State where we had to drop our displeasure and write to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) through the NMA. Concerning this matter.
Through the collective efforts of all relevant stakeholders, alongside the support of parents of students at the Ambrose Alli University College of Medicine, a temporary system was established to manage the crisis. Under this arrangement, students within the same class had to be divided into multiple cohorts for their training and examinations.
While this approach was far from ideal and undoubtedly unfair to the affected students, it represented the most pragmatic solution available at the time to ensure that their medical education and graduation were not brought to a complete standstill.
In 2025, a similar issue arrived with Dental Students of the University of Calabar. And I had to the opportunity to meet with the National leadership of the Nigerian Association of Dental Students (NADS) to propose solutions.
After the meeting, myself and Muhammed Abdulqudus Jamilu, a medical student with strong affiliation to the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) wrote a report to the president of NANS on this complaint. Which was carried and enacted, although the problem still prevails but has been suppressed.
Now, in 2026, we are once again confronted with another accreditation crisis, this time involving medical students at the University of Ilorin.
At this point, it is difficult to understand why these situations continue to recur. Unauthorized expansion beyond an approved admission quota inevitably places students at risk. When institutions admit more students than they are accredited to train, it is the students, not the management, who bear the consequences through delayed training, uncertainty, and emotional distress.
I therefore call on the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association (NiMSA), the relevant regulatory authorities, university management, and every other stakeholder to treat this matter with the urgency and seriousness it deserves. This is not an issue that should be handled with complacency.
Medical and dental students should never have to suffer because of administrative incompetence, poor planning, or decisions driven by institutional interests at the expense of educational standards. They have fulfilled their obligations, invested years of hard work, and deserve to receive their education without being made victims of circumstances entirely beyond their control.
Enough is enough.
It is profoundly unfair that students continue to pay the price for failures they did not create.
Enough is Enough!
Quota is 150, but you admitted 300+ in 100L, then 8 years later, you are saying sorry we can only graduate 150. That’s not policy. That’s playing with people’s lives.
8 years of school fees, sacrifice, sleepless nights, parents aging, dreams on hold… only to be told “wait, there’s a backlog”.
The parents that have been saying “my son/daughter is almost a Doctor” for years now don’t even know what to say again. 🥲
It’s not just certificates.
Housemanship delayed, residency delayed, income delayed, marriage plans delayed and life delayed.
This kind of waiting breaks people quietly. The pressure plus the uncertainty is a lot.
I really hope there's something that can be done. This is not a situation anyone should be.
Let’s not forget that Unilorin could not induct 44 graduates since October because they could only induct 150 graduates.
44 medical graduates caught in the thicket of uncertainty for 9 months, watching their colleagues move on while they mark-time.
Someone (some people) did not do their jobs. Their heads should roll for it. Not the innocent students who are now forced into a rat race that will definitely have casualties.
I bought a parfait and forgot to pick it up from the vendor later in the day. I called someone to help me collect it and keep it for me. Ladies and gentlemen, she collected it and also forgot to take it with her. 😂