Abia State School Of Nursing Immersed In Scandal Of Admission Racketeering

 

It is necessary to put an end to the corruption at Abia State School of Nursing, particularly on the Amachara Campus. Otherwise, the schoo reputation is under threat and her certificates will amount to toilet tissues. 

The entrance form is purchased from the Ministry of Health at the cost of ₦10,000 paid to UBA.

Some students paid a ransom fee between ₦80,000 and ₦150,000 to the school administrators to secure admission.

The results are released two weeks after the exam, and those who 'pass' paid additional ₦15,000 to collect admission letters and ₦245,000 for tuition, hostel, books, and uniforms. But no book was given to the students.

The selected students are registered as PTS students. Then, after two to three months of phantom lectures, the students paid ₦30,000, called the examination fee. Unfortunately, the so-called examinations are stage-managed whereby the school administrators/teachers collected between ₦500,000 and ₦1 million for any students that want to scale through.

Imagine the school admitting over 400 students, only to select 70 through the concocted PTS exam. The PTS exam this time was conducted on CBT, but it took over two months to release the results, and only those that paid the ramsome of ₦500,000 were selected.

The government should please address this injustice. Credible students should be allowed to become professional nurses, and those who want to be night nurses can go for hotel management courses in the appropriate institutions.

I advocate that the exam be retaken, which should be conducted by reputable lecturers who may be selected from ABSU. And, sack all the so-called teachers in the school, Amachara in particular.