Two die, UNIPORT shut as students protest fee payment

TWO students of the University of Port Harcourt were on Monday feared killed during a protest over an alleged policy by the management of the institution that school fees must be paid before they would be allowed to take their first semester examinations. One of the students identified as Peter Ofurun, who was said to have been hit by a bullet from a policeman, died instantly. Another student also hit by a bullet was rushed to the hospital, even as sources claimed that she died on the way to the hospital. The UNIPORT students’ protest had halted academic and administrative activities in the institution as they demanded that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sunday Lale, should address them and reverse the policy Ofurun was a student in the Faculty of Management Science before he met his untimely death. His corpse was later taken to the African Independent Television station in Port Harcourt. Sources told our correspondents that the two students were hit by the bullets when policemen...