04/09/2025
How RATS And ROTS Have Taken Over Unfinished Buildings In UNN.
¶ New V.C Has Lots On His Table.
You can see these buildings dotting the skylines of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) from a distance.
One of the sections of the uncompleted structures shares a boundary with the Nnamdi Azikiwe Library. Most students who are either reading or researching in the Library come to the rendezvous to answer the nature's call.
When The Employeronline Entrepreneurship Newspaper (TEEN) visited the area recently, a stretch of road leading into the unfinished structure with students streaming in and out attracted attention. On closer observation, and taking a step further, here comes the home of rats and rots as students and others who are on a daily "pilgrimage" to this place relieve themselves heedlessly.
A brief dialogue ensued when TEEN noticed a female student coming out from the uncompleted structure: Are you a student here? "Yes, I am". Did you go there to urinate? "Yes". I guess you don't have a choice. How long have these structures been standing here? "I am a first year student, so I wouldn't know". Thank you.
TEEN also interviewed a male Post Graduate student who admitted that the unfinished structures have been standing there for more than ten years. Some staff in the University Library confirmed that they met the unfinished structure when they were employed.
At the Department of Fine and Industrial Arts beside the UNN Post Graduate School, huge abandoned projects have been in a state of neglect for years.
Every attempt made by TEEN to find out why those structures were abandoned and what these projects were meant for did not yield positive result.
Without waiting for positive answers on why they were abandoned, the new Vice Chancellor should wave his magic wand of sterling performance combined with his Midas touch to restore the dignity of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and by implication, the whole dignity of man.
Time has come for UNN to regain it's lost glory by upscaling its infrastructural development. The new V.C needs to partner with the private sector to bring about much desired development to this great Citadel of Learning.
Let the Lions roar once, again!