- Anxious students besieged portal
- Students pay up to N20,000 to middlemen to secure accomodation
The authorities of the University of Lagos on Thursday opened the school’s accommodation portal to enable both ew and returning students bid for on-campus hostile accommodation for the 2021/22 academic year.
The bidding however looks tougher this year than the previous ones asore students seems prepared to bid for hostel as a result of the fallouts of the COVID-19 challenges which put squatters and those who were unable to secure hostel accommodation at a disadvantage.
Sunrise News investigation however showed that many of the students have not been able to log into the portal https://accommodation.unilag.edu.ng/ to bid for the hostel, while few ones who succeeded discovered that only one or two hostels, Jaja Hall or Sodeinde hall, and an off campus hostel, opened for bidding.
The situation got many of the students in edge, forcing the Dean of students Affairs (DSA) to issue a statement which confirms that the portal is having some challenges and solicited the understanding of students to be patience while the school’s engineers work on the site.
He said; “we hereby acknowledge that the accomodation site is presently down and our engineers are working to ensure that more hostels come up on the site rather than just one that presently appears. We appeal for students to give us about one hour to put this in order”.
But an anxious student who does not want his name published said the statement might be fake and may not have originated from the DSA.
“That message may not have originated from the DSA. For all you know those who wanted to have students go off the site might just have sent the fake news, stopping traffic to the site.”
He said the one hour break being sought by the dSA is enough for all the halls to be filled ponce the traffic thinned out for people to access.
Indication that the site may be facing serious challenge however, is that the site is down as at press time.
Sunrise News gathered that some students paid between N10,000 and N20,000 to some centres to secure accommodation.
