Daily Trust

UNIZIK clamps down on fake exam results

- From Emma Elekwa, Awka

A total of 15 students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State have been expelled from the institutio­n.

The students were expelled over cases of armed robbery, harassment, cultism, results forgery, Indian hemp smoking among other vices.

A release from the office of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, said the decision was reached at the management’s 335th regular meeting, following a report of the Students Disciplina­ry Committee, indicting the students.

The expelled students were directed to surrender their identity cards and any other property of the institutio­n in their custody to the security department and to keep off entirely from the university premises.

The university management also suspended one Victor Mbaegbu of the Department of Science Education for two years over a case of phone theft.

Mbaegbu, who was directed to visit the psychology department for both psychother­apy and counseling, was asked to provide evidence of having received adequate counseling before being recalled to the institutio­n.

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