Niger varsity worries over rising campus robberies

From Mathew Jwantu, Minna

The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), Niger State has summoned a security meeting to end rising robbery attacks on its student accommodations.

Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Nasir Maiturare, expressed concern over the increasing attacks by hoodlums on students staying off-campus.

Maiturare sympathised with students who sustained injuries in ‘gruesome’ robbery attacks in some off-campus lodges recently, assuring of an immediate end.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Lapai Police Division, Superintendent Yakubu Yusuf, and Officer-in-Charge of Lapai Office, Department of State Security (DSS), Mohammed Yahaya, pledged to cooperate with the university to safeguard lives and property