Inside Bingham University

Inside Bingham University

By Balami Lazarus

Situated and being at 26 kilometres Abuja- Keffi Expressway Karu Nasarawa state. Bingham University (BHU) was established in 2005 by Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) and named after a Christian Evangelist Roland Bingham one of the founders of SIM- Sudan Interior Mission who and two others came to Africa in 1893.

This university is one among the success story of private universities in Nigeria, with good academic standards, the harvest of lecturers and scholars, intelligent and brilliant students who are dotted with some questionable behaviours. When I went on a fact-finding mission recently I was able to exhume a can full of Magu- maggots clandestine in indiscipline and immoral acts among students caged in social vices like drugs, alcoholism and sex on the one side.

While some lecturers are secretly involved in grades trading on the other. To most students I asked, Bingham University is socially bankrupt and is likened to secondary schools where you are treated with strict and embracing rules and regulations. “These are not meant for a tertiary institution like Bingham. You cannot beat those of us who are interested in social life as young people full of life we will and shall always have our ways” happily said, one student.

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Looking at the body language and disposition of some of the students, it is crystal clear that most of them are made without their liking to enrolled in Bingham University by their parents. Inside Bingham is also mafia-like where intrigues, treachery and fear grips you with terror. ( Remember Thriller by Michael Jackson). Bingham is partially run by some groups of families spread across different departments who are staff of the institution where they operate in a closed fraternity reporting every bit and inch of happenings in and around Bingham to the Management for a favour.

The university is also faced with salary carryover of 2017 and the case of undue delay in payment as confirmed by one member of staff. I have long learnt that the face value of a thing is at times deceptive and Bingham has proved this assertion. The university is headed by Professor William Barnabas Qurix as Vice-Chancellor.

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