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Temidayo Awoyemi, a 26-year old student of the department of Chemistry at the University of Benin, Edo state, has been denied graduation for three years despite meeting all academic requirements.
His lecturers and examination officials said they were too busy to compile his records.
Awoyemi's hopes were dashed after he spent three years since completing his studies, without graduation.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, officials in his department and faculty said they had had no time to process his records in the last two years.
The faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan, in charge of scrutinizing students’ records, confirmed that the student had no case to keep him from graduating.
A spokesperson for the school told this newspaper the case was “strange”, and assured it would be resolved quickly.
Despite that assurance, the school has yet to act on the matter more than a month after.
Like many other students of the school, Temidayo’s problem began in his final year when his department said his West African Senior Secondary School Certificate was not in its records. At least five other students in his class had
After losing the 2012/13 school session to a six-month strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, Temidayo hoped he would be quickly let go the next session once he provided a copy of the missing certificate.
He submitted the certificate to the chemistry department and began to wait for clearance since 2013/2014 session. Two years after, he is still waiting for the school to process his result for graduation.
The process of clearing him requires the approval of his course adviser, Wayne Omagamre; faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan; the Head of Department, Professor James Okuo; and Dean, Professor Sunday Omosigho.
Lamenting on the issue, Temidayo explained that the officials consistently said they had been too busy to attend to the case.
“Even after the course adviser claimed that he had done his own aspects of the work, the faculty checker, Prof. Imiavan, especially, has refused to check my results for years now for whatever reasons I don’t know,” Temidayo said.
“From my understanding, the department has no problem with my result. I don’t have any criminal record. But I don’t know why the officials have refused to process my result.”
The university’s spokesperson, Michael Osasuyi, said the case was unusual. Mr. Osasuyi assured that the matter was receiving the vice chancellor’s attention.
“The various authorities that are concerned with this matter are now working on it. Once the vice chancellor gets a report on it, you will be able to get a feedback,” Mr. Osasuyi promised, more than a month ago.
Source: Premium Times
His lecturers and examination officials said they were too busy to compile his records.
Awoyemi's hopes were dashed after he spent three years since completing his studies, without graduation.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, officials in his department and faculty said they had had no time to process his records in the last two years.
The faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan, in charge of scrutinizing students’ records, confirmed that the student had no case to keep him from graduating.
A spokesperson for the school told this newspaper the case was “strange”, and assured it would be resolved quickly.
Despite that assurance, the school has yet to act on the matter more than a month after.
Like many other students of the school, Temidayo’s problem began in his final year when his department said his West African Senior Secondary School Certificate was not in its records. At least five other students in his class had
After losing the 2012/13 school session to a six-month strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, Temidayo hoped he would be quickly let go the next session once he provided a copy of the missing certificate.
He submitted the certificate to the chemistry department and began to wait for clearance since 2013/2014 session. Two years after, he is still waiting for the school to process his result for graduation.
The process of clearing him requires the approval of his course adviser, Wayne Omagamre; faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan; the Head of Department, Professor James Okuo; and Dean, Professor Sunday Omosigho.
Lamenting on the issue, Temidayo explained that the officials consistently said they had been too busy to attend to the case.
“Even after the course adviser claimed that he had done his own aspects of the work, the faculty checker, Prof. Imiavan, especially, has refused to check my results for years now for whatever reasons I don’t know,” Temidayo said.
“From my understanding, the department has no problem with my result. I don’t have any criminal record. But I don’t know why the officials have refused to process my result.”
The university’s spokesperson, Michael Osasuyi, said the case was unusual. Mr. Osasuyi assured that the matter was receiving the vice chancellor’s attention.
“The various authorities that are concerned with this matter are now working on it. Once the vice chancellor gets a report on it, you will be able to get a feedback,” Mr. Osasuyi promised, more than a month ago.
Source: Premium Times
