100 Students of Unizik enjoying work aid scheme

www.odogwublog.com reports that no fewer than 100 students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University , Awka the Management  of Unizik at its 323rd meeting held on Monday, 26th of January, 2015 considered the to engage some students under work aid scheme and followed this criteria below in engaging 100 of them, if not more now …………………
a.       Many applications have been received from indigent students for the Work-Aid Scheme
b.       There is presently no clearly defined schedule/functions and assessment for the work-Aid students
c.Hostels, faculties, Halls, Departments, Classrooms and other University environment/lawns could be maintained and kept clean by the students in the work-Aid scheme and the five thousand Naira (5,000) stipend to the work-Aid students was too small and could be reviewed upwards.

Management, therefore decided as follows
i.         To engage the services of its students in the Work-Aid scheme
ii.       The students in the Work-Aid scheme should be involved in keeping the classrooms, halls, hostels, auditorium in the University clean and they should also be charged with the responsibility of ensuring environmental cleanliness and management of their Departments/faculties by picking of litters and throwing them into the waste bins.
iii.      The qualification and application for recruitment into the students work-Aid scheme should be CGPA of 2.5 and the appointment should be renewable on a yearly assessment of the students performance and
iv.      The University should restrict its recruitment into the work-Aid scheme to a maximum of one hundred students per session/year.

It, therefore approved the upward review of the stipend for work Aid students from five Thousand naira to Ten thousand Naira monthly.
Management also directed that the student’s work-Aid scheme should be advertised in the University Bulletin.