Guard your utterances while using social media – Yobe VC tells students

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By Muhammad Maitela, Damaturu

The Vice-Chancellor of Yobe State University, Prof. Mala Mohammed Daura, has charged the newly elected members of the Executive Council of the Student Union Government (SUG) to be honest and be good ambassadors of the University.

This was contained in a statement signed by Abdulmumin Kolo Gulani, information officer, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Yobe State University.

He said the Vice-Chancellor made the call on Friday, while inaugurating the new EXCOS of the union at the Geidam Hall of the University.

Prof. Daura who was represented at the event by the Dean, Student Affairs, Prof. Sani Isa, expressed his dissatisfaction on some students over their unguarded utterances about the activities of the University on social media platforms.

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He said it’s good for the students to always seek for clarification through the appropriate channels of communication in the institution so as to avoid sharing fake news and hate speeches that will implicate them.

In his address, the University Acting Director of ICT, Dr. Idi Mohammed, advised the students to properly apply for the students’ NELFUND in which he said, some students are making mistakes while applying for the loan.

In their separate remarks, the Head of Geology Department, Prof. Adam Zarma, and his counterpart from Public Administration, Dr Hadiza Mali Bukar, charged the students to concentrate more on their studies than student unionism.

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