Religious Injusice In River State University of science and technology

According to the report reaching us:  The Muslim Students of Rivers State University of Sci & Tech, Port Harcourt are facing lots of challenges in the school, problems ranging from Demolition of the only makeshift mosque on campus, threatening and harassing of
Muslim students by the lecturers, fixing lectures
during Jumaat time, Examination on Eid day( Muslim festival day).

There is no freedom of worship as a Muslim in the school, whereas there are more than 28 fellowships on campus with over 4 gargantuan building for their worship. This is a sideline as the Muslims constitute all the departments in the school even in the faculty of law.

The struggles for the acquisition of land for worship started back in the late 19’s and early 20’s, since then there have not been favorable response from the school
management. The chief Imam of the University, Imam Oloyede Muhyideen & Our Staff Adviser Engr B.I Bakare have tried their capable best for us to secure a place of worship but all have been fruitless.

Different letters were written to state governor, the NUC (National Universities Commission), NSCIA (Nigeria supreme council for Islamic Affairs), but all ended like a blowing wind.

After a period of time, a space (no structure) was adopted by the Muslim community after which they erected a canopy, by this medium, Muslims on campus converge in their large numbers to observe their prayers, until a day which cannot be forgotten in the history of the Muslim students in the school which was the demolishing of the makeshift mosque on 25th Jan 2012.