Professor Okogbule announced this while inaugurating the 2023-2024 post graduate students Association and Students Union Government at the faculty of law auditorium of the university.
He noted that the move was necessitated to safe guide the lives of students, and directed the Dean of student’s affairs to ensure strict compliance of the directive.
The vice Chancellor however, charged the new Excos to be committed to their core mandate of service and obey rules and regulations of the university, adding that the high academic standard recorded today is as a result of non-disruption of the school calendar.
In his remarks, the new president of post graduate students Association, Sokari Minapakate pledged that the leadership will work in line with the Constitution and promised to justify the confidence reposed in them.
In the meantime, the chairman of elders forum of post graduate students Association, Keme Omonibeke said the welfare of students in various departments is Paramount, stressing that as elders in their midst, they owe it a duty to guide and support them Excel in their leadership roles.
Meanwhile; a student group under the aegis of Indigenous Rivers State University Law School Candidates of the class of 2021 cum 2022, has called for urgent intervention of the current administration of Governor Siminalayi Fubara to assist indigenous Rivers State University Students duly admitted to undertake the one year program.
The group in a communique read out by its Coordinator, Wele Promise-Tochukwu, said the call became necessary following the over one hundred percent school fees increment by the management board of the Nigerian Law School from the initial two hundred and ninety-seven thousand naira to four hundred and seventy-six thousand naira.
Promise-Tochukwu said their request is predicated on the fact that majority of the students are of humble backgrounds and find it difficult to meet up the huge financial responsibilities associated with the program and may withdraw from it if left unaided, thereby negatively affecting the human capacity of the state in comparison with its contemporaries.
Promise-Tochukwu said in view of the current economic realities of the nation, the governor should approve two million naira per student, which they said would cover the basic tuition fees, purchase of textbooks and other academic materials, transportation, the compulsory medical tests, purchase of laptops and other logistics associated with law school program.
He also said they are highly impressed and gratified by the visionary leadership of the governor following his impactful projects, policies and programs which have set the state in an enviable trajectory of collective prosperity, growth and development.
Other affected Law School Students of the academic years also appealed to governor Fabara to intervene.
