- Suspends 24
Authorities of the Delta State University, Abraka, have expelled twentyone students and rusticated thirty-three others for alleged examination malpractice. Twenty-four others were also suspended by the institution for similar offences. The university also withdrew the approved Senate results of two former students, who studied at the Agbor affiliate centre of the school. The disciplinary measures taken by the university against the erring students were contained in the summary report of its Examination Malpractices Mobile Disciplinary Committee, which was published on the institution’s website. The report said that nine other students earlier arraigned before the committee were discharged but strongly warned to be more careful during future examinations. DELSU Vice Chancellor, Professor Victor Peretomode, said that the expelled students were found wanting when they committed of fences ranging from impersonation, illegal possession to the use of the university’s answer booklets in the examination halls. Peretomode added that a larger number of the students were rusticated for six academic semesters over offences such as cheating, aiding and abetting malpractice, taking extraneous materials into examination halls and similar charges. He said, “The suspension penalty was handed over to the 24 students over their failure to appear before the committee that held its meetings between July 8 and 29 2016, the suspended students were required to appear before the committee on the 30th of August 2016”. Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students, in a swift reaction, faulted the management of DELSU and the university’s Examination Malpractice Mobile Disciplinary Committee, accusing them of insincerity in handling allegations against students’ indiscipline and
