Professor Rahamon Adisa Bello - Unilag VC

The qualifying examinations for candidates seeking admission to the University of Lagos postgraduate school have been disrupted because of power failure, the PUNCH gathered on Monday.

Some of the candidates, who particularly were to write the Computer Based Tests, had the excercise disrupted on Saturday evening following the inability of one of the schools generators to power the computers and other facilities for the examination.

The schools Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr. Oluwatoyin Adebule, who described the development as minor, however, linked the disruption of the examination to server problems.

Confirming that the challenge had not been resolved as of Monday, he promised that the university would fix another date for affected candidates.

He said, It was a fact that the generator went off and that is the generator of the centre. But the university also has a back-up from the main campus. But that (power failure) was not the issue. After they connected to the university generator, it was discovered that the server was down.

It was when they (Post-Graduate School) realised that it was becoming dark around 6pm that they asked the candidates to go home. In fact, they are still battling with the server. As soon as we are through with it, we will reschedule examination. The university will inform the students of the rescheduled date through print media.

Many of the affected candidates were seeking admission to study M.Sc. Economics and Master of Public and International Affairs.

The test, which began about 9am, was disrupted abruptly after the generator used to power the computers became faulty in the afternoon.

Our correspondent gathered that attempts to shift over to inverters as an alternative power source to ensure the continuation of the tests were futile as they also packed up after about five minutes later.

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Power failure disrupts UNILAG PG entrance exam