MOUAU management science students want courses restored


Following the restoration of non-agriculture related courses in sister institutions by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, students for Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia (MOUAU) have cried out for assistance to also restore the courses in the university.

Based on the policy, further admissions into Accounting, Banking and Finance, Marketing, Economics, Entrepreneurial Studies, Industrial Relations and Business Administration departments in MOUAU have been halted.
 Consequently, the management science courses are not listed in the JAMB brochure for MOUAU while they are listed for Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUNAM) and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB).

Expressing the frustration of the affected students at MOUAU, Mr. Uzoma Onuoha, President, Association of Management Science Students (AMSS) of the university, said that they were disturbed by the scrapping of the courses and the discriminatory stance of the Federal Government.

“The scrapped management programmes were approved by relevant professional bodies and they have been in existence in MOUAU since 2003,” Onuoha said.

The students protested to the office of the Dean of the college, Prof. John Ihendinihu, and called on the management of the university to initiate steps toward the restoration of the courses.

Responding, the dean said the law “provides for a tripod mandate of teaching, research and extension in agriculture and related/allied disciplines.”

Ihendinihu said MOUAU established six colleges for core agricultural programmes and six other “complementary colleges”, which included COLMAS, to provide foundational courses in “related/allied disciplines.”

He appealed to Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, to order the immediate restoration of the scrapped COLMAS programmes in MOUAU as done for the others.


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