I’m in my final year studying business administration in ABUAD, and I can’t wait to leave!!! The founder of the school is such an authoritarian, and your rights will be outrightly trampled upon… People who go online to share the horrible experiences they had in the school are shut up through the founder’s influence as a well known lawyer in the country. Imagine this… the school sets the time table, and puts some days as lecture free days, of course, some days. You might not have classes but every student is expected to be out of their hostels and will not be allowed back into the hostel until 12 noon. So let’s say you don’t have ant class from 8:30 till 12 and you have a class by 1:30, you will be forced to go out of the hostel. And if you don’t have any class that day, you will be forced out too and won’t be allowed back into the hostel till 12 noon. The porters and guards are so rude, and they’re ready to physically abuse you if you as much as talk back to them, cause they are all yoruba people with archaic mentality. The 4 man male toilet are so few for the students that approximately 5 students are assigned 1 toilet.
Also, water does not get to the second and third floor, so people on the second and last floor have to go to the ground floor to get water. On top of this, as early as 6:30 am, a porter loudly starts telling everybody to leave their hostels, the speakers are really loud and it gets so annoying at that early hour.
ABUAD is a business and not a school at all. If your things are stolen, even thought there are cameras, it takes them ages before you get the appropriate attention. Also you can’t leave the school casually… you have to go through the VC who is not Always available, to get a permit, and you have to get a couple of other signatures too… your parents can not come into the school to see you, except they personally know someone high in the administration or something. Things on campus are expensive, and an average student needs between 40 to 50 thousand naira per week for feeding and upkeep… you have to wear the uniform College wear strictly.
You won’t get the worth of your money in ABUAD. Only very few classrooms have ACs and not always is the electricity in the colleges. Sometimes in my college, (SMS) all the toilets are shut and none is accessible to students!!! Really, go to PAU, American University of Nigeria or even a STATE school, but not ABUAD!

Gerally, in Nigeria, the school is thought to be a really “cool” and “posh” place to be
But on getting there, you don’t find this to be entirely true… firstly there is a strict curfew that students shouldn’t be outside the hostels after 10pm. Secondly tough restrictions on male students wearing ear or nose rings(if caught, the rings are seized). Beards are meant to be shaved cleanly and people who like to keep theirs can’t. Male students can’t braid or lock their hair. This causes a lot of rude attitudes from the enforcers and the administration when there is no absolute compliance… Food on campus is expensive, and students aren’t allowed to cook or buy from outside the campus.
There are dress codes for going to classes as guys are meant to wear ties and a specific shirt colour according to their fields of studies, with suit pants, tucking in the shirt. Lecture rooms are conducive, and some are AC fitted. The founder, is seen as a god around here by his employees…
Students are forced to go for congresses where they aren’t allowed to speak their minds…
Generally, it’s not a place where you expect freedom totally.
The hostels are not well furnished. It only takes someone with an average expectation to stay in the hostels, cause it’s not so bad, but also not sterling.
The fun parts are the parties
Parties happen occasionally and artists come on campus(but not the mega stars tho) but all parties end before curfew (10pm)
The school is so strict on education that it leaves out other important parts of students, like mental health, social life, student’s personal freedoms…
Girls are not allowed to keep long hair, or else they’ll have to cut their hair… When going for classes dress codes have to be strictly complied with, or students are sent back to their hostels…
Students are not allowed back into their hostels until it’s 12pm even if they finish classes before then… When there is a congress meeting, all the students are expected to be there, and students are chased out of their hostels…
Here, students aren’t treated like adults at all. Sometimes students are even treated in a way even kids should be trained…
Smoking or drinking is a very serious offence here, and students caught are faced with either expulsion or suspension…
Personally, I thought it was gonna be a really cool School, until I got here… But now I just can’t wait to get out and have the degree
It could be an okay choice for people on budget, with the average school fees being 1.5 million naira but for average Nigerians, it is too steep. For we students here, we’d say the school is okay generally, because we’re getting used to it, and getting along. And as long as you comply with the rules and restrictions, it’s not a bad place to be. The lectures are normal, and there is a range of courses for students… apparent from the restrictions, the place isn’t that bad to study… as for the hostels, students with the best hostels pay extra…
Sexual relationships are also very prohibited BTW, and students aren’t allowed free exit off the campus.