Editorial: Closure of Registration May Dash Students' Hope, Reasons Management Should Listen to Students' Clamours

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At UDUS, the cock of the hen awakens humans drumming to the ears a worrying tone and personifying the wailing of thousands of students. With what seems to be lost voices, students cry internally with raining tears rolling from their eyes, passing the cheeks and down to the legs. Now, the student community is heavily plagued with sadness, with a few who are privileged smiling and less concerned. 

This situation is an undesired expression following the closure of the students' registration portal by the University management. To be fair, the university management should be appreciated for the consecutive extensions of registration for returning students. However, the students want more echoing their plights to the magnanimous heart of the management. 

Recently, a circular released by the University authority noted that the fate of any student unable to complete registration within the windows of extension will risk deferring his or her admission. The implementation of the notice has since begun following the closure of registration portals, a development that has thrown many students into sadness and mental crack. 

It is reasonably safe to believe and conclude that any moral and serious student will be interested in paying his or her school fees and completing his/her registration at the appropriate time without persuasion from any quarters. With all efforts required, students who have hope in education are expected to pay attention to what they believe will facilitate a future of blessing.

Unfortunately, many excellent and serious of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto have not completed their registration. While the Management has tried its best by extending the deadline for registration three different spacious times, some factors compel many students to have failed to meet the deadlines as they necessitate the mercy and listening ears of the management. 

The first ground leading students to miss the deadline for registration despite several extensions by the management is the economic situation of the country. The increment in the registration fees further compounded the issues. While there are many students who rely on their always-under-sun parents for their school fees, there are a quite number of others who struggle independently and work tediously to ensure their stay on campus and academic responsibilities are free of any glitches. This set of students deserves to be considered but are trapped in the current situation.

A few days back at a closed WhatsApp platform, the Director of the Management and Information System (MIS) of the University, Mallam Isah Chafe raised an alarm that about 60% of the student have not completed their registrations. Aside from the financial factor mentioned above, the next issue that warrants students failing to complete registration before the deadlines is traced to the fact that some Departments (or Faculties in some cases) take long in releasing results of the previous session without which registration cannot be completed even if school fees are paid. Here, students may not be at fault or held responsible.

Associated with the above are a couple of many issues related to unreleased previous session results, the incoherence of units on the portal with the departmental students' handbook, and a lot of others responsible for such a resistant act from the students. In this case, it is right to say students are not to be blamed. 

With the closure of the portal and deferment of the current session as the fate of students who are yet to complete registration, the above-listed grounds and factors may be sufficient for the management to consider a further extension with a wide window than before. We believe the management will listen to the plights of its appealing students. 


Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi,

Editor-in-Chief, Vanguard Press Board, UDUS.

Thursday 22nd June, 2023.

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