The University of Maiduguri has both female and male hostels located within the campus. The hostels serve as a second home for the students while away from their homes and a place to stay in order to have a conducive learning environment. The hostels have numerous rooms and toilets. The students are provided with both water and electricity for their own use.
Unfortunately, the hostels have become an inconvenient place to stay as things have gone wrong, Electricity and sufficient water have become a problem. The students, both female and male residents of the hostels have expressed their displeasure about the poor maintenance of the hostels. From insufficient electric power, insufficient water for livelihoods, dirty toilets to the unkept environment which makes their studies in-conducive.
The state of the hostel depicts poor maintenance of the bathrooms and toilets, lack of ceiling fans and stable switches, uncleaned drainage and water passages.
According to sources, the toilets sometimes aren’t washed by the hostel workers. They haven’t been performing their duties. Sometimes students have to go in and wash it before they can use it and this results in difficulty and
Inconvenience as it affects their learning process.
Likewise, most of the rooms don’t have a working ceiling fan and some don’t even have a ceiling fan in their rooms at all, and it’s really affecting them considering the weather in Maiduguri and request that the matter should be looked into.
Students living in the university campus urge the university management to solve the issue of electricity saying that if there is electricity in the hostels, students won’t find it difficult to get water and the scarcity would reduce.
Other looming concerns include improper maintenance of drainage systems which puts students at risk of contracting diseases including malaria and sabotaging their health and well-being.
Students in hostels like The Aisha Hall hostel, Murtala, among others, also
lament issues of water shortage and power outages. A stable electricity in the hostels is essential for ease of life and studies.
I therefore urge the students’ affairs division to look into the issues with
immediate effect and without hesitation.
Also, the student relations officer should endeavour to assist in the maintenance of the rooms particularly those rooms without a ceiling fan especially during unfavourable weather, for comfort and good health.
Hadiza Ibrahim Ngulde,
Department of Mass Communication, University of Maiduguri, Borno state
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