Accommodation chaos at BIUST
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Mmegi leant that undergraduate students were moving door-to-door in search of accommodation in the village. Since some students had nowhere to sleep, they were desperately forced to sleep in the university’s common rooms, something seen as an untidy situation that did not befit the stature of an institution like BIUST.
It was apparent that poor planning on the side of the university precipitated the accommodation crisis at BIUST.
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