Make provisions for Post-UTME candidates from flood-ravaged states – Ex-NUJ chairman begs NUC

A former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Imo State Council, Ben Osuagwu, has called on the National University Commission, NUC, to beckon on the tertiary institutions in the country to make provisions for Post-UTME candidates frjom the flood-ravaged and riverine states to take their examinations at a later date.

Osuagwu’s appeal followed reports of heavy flooding of the highways in and out of the affected states to the point that everyone in these states can no longer leave their homes for anything.

Osuagwu, who was speaking in a radio programme in Owerri on Thursday, said the most affected states are those in the South-South, North Central, North West and parts of South East.

The ex-NUJ chairman observed that because of the flooding and its attendant ravaging effects, their children and candidates for this year’s Post-UTME may miss their being admitted into any tertiary institution in the country over the disaster.

He said that the flood has kept everybody in the affected areas indoors, especially those from Bayelsa, Delta, Kogi, Kano and Oguta in Imo State. The flooding has led to closure of all schools in these states.

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