The Unspeakable State of Hostels in University of Nigeria, Nsukka
For the sake of this article, let me re-introduce myself. My name is Chisom Juanita Mefor, a 300 level undergraduate student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I live in Tafawa Balewa Hostel, a place students are reduced to inhuman conditions. Let me assert that everything written here is thematic, though there are cross-references, it is wholly based on facts. Personally, I think if Human Rights are Rights we get for being Humans, then decent accommodation should at least be Rights we get for being students. I live in Balewa Hostel, 200 series on the right wing. This hostel was built by Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1955 during the golden era, a time in which individuals who now serve as Heads of these same Institutions lived in single rooms, had acce...