UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS (UNILAG) ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE OF BALLOTING FOR 2023/2024 HOSTEL ALLOCATION FOR FRESHERS

UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS (UNILAG) ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE OF BALLOTING FOR 2023/2024 HOSTEL ALLOCATION FOR FRESHERS

DEAR STUDENTS,

THE HOSTEL BALLOTING EXERCISE BY NEW STUDENTS (100 LEVEL UTME & DIRECT ENTRY) WILL HOLD AS SCHEDULED BELOW:

DATE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2024

TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 1PM

ELIGIBILITY: FRESHERS ONLY (AS SPECIFIED ABOVE)

IMPORTANT NOTES

1. YOU CAN ONLY MAKE ONE RESERVATION AT A TIME. YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO MAKE ANOTHER APPLICATION UNTIL A DECISION HAS BEEN MADE ON YOUR INITIAL SUBMISSION.

2. ONCE YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED, YOU CAN TRACK THE STATUS OF YOUR APPLICATION BY CLICKING THE “Accommodation Application Status” ON THE ACCOMMODATION MENU

Below are the possible Statuses and their corresponding description:

a. Successful: This means your application was successful, and you have been allocated a bed space in your selected hostel. An email notification would be sent containing the hostel and bed space information. You would be required to make payment for the bed space within 7 days or risk the allocation being revoked and reallocated.

b. Accommodation Quota Exceeded: The limited number of spaces available have been distributed across all levels of the various departments in the ratio of their respective student population. As soon as hostel allocation assigned to a particular level/department is reached, all subsequent applications would get the “Accommodation Quota Exceeded” notification.

c. Extra year students are not allowed to reserve accommodation: Extra-Year Students are not eligible to participate in the hostel balloting exercise

d. Sorry, you can only have one active reservation at a time: This means you have a pending submission that is yet to be processed. You can, however, reapply once a decision has been made on your previous submission.

e. Sorry, there are currently no available rooms in “Hall Name”. You may try again later: This means there are no more rooms available for allocation in this hall

f. You must register for the 2023/2024 session before making an accommodation reservation: This means you are not registered for the current session and therefore not eligible to participate in the hostel allocation exercise.

3. IF YOUR APPLICATION STATUS IS “SUCCESSFUL”, YOU HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED A BED SPACE, A NOTIFICATION WILL BE SENT TO YOUR EMAIL, CHECK YOUR MAILBOX ONCE YOUR APPLICATION INDICATES SUCCESFUL STATUS .

4. THE BED SPACE ALLOCATION MUST BE PAID FOR WITHIN 7 WORKING DAYS FROM ALLOCATION OTHERWISE, IT WILL BE REVOKED AND REALLOCATED

5. IT IS AN OFFENCE TO SELL YOUR BED SPACE TO ANOTHER STUDENT OR SQUAT ANOTHER STUDENT.

6. CHECK YOUR MAILBOX FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND INFORMATION.

DSA