… approves backlog of examination results, establishment of School of
Agricultural Technology, constitution of Committees. The Academic Board of Kogi
State Polytechnic, Lokoja, has approved the expulsion of 25 students for
involvement in examination misconduct.The decision which was taken at the
meeting of the Board held on 13th August, 2020, was in line with the
recommendation of the Student Examination Malpractice Committee.In statement
signed by the head of Public Relations and Protocol of the school, Mrs. Uredo
Omale, the expelled students who were of the School of Management Studies were
found guilty of various forms of examination misconduct during the Second
Semester Examination for the 2018/2019 academic session.The Board, at the
Meeting, also approved backlog of results across all Schools beginning from the
2016/2017 academic session.The Board also considered and approved the
establishment of the School of Agricultural Technology at the Itakpe campus of
the Polytechnic.The approved School of Agricultural Technology which is to
commence academic activities with National Diploma (ND) programmes in the
2020/2021 Session, will feature programmes such Animal Health and Production
Technology, Agriculture and Bio-enviromental Technology, Horticultural
Technology and Agricultural Technology.The Board, in addition, considered and
approved the constitution of three (3) committees to handle pressing academic
and disciplinary issues in the Polytechnic.The Committees are Result
Verification Commmitee chaired by the Deputy Rector, Dr Lamidi Kehinde, the
Central Examination Misconduct Committee, chaired by Mr S. A Rowland, of the
School of General Studies, and the Student Disciplinary Committee, chaired by
the Director of Academic Planning, Mrs Ruth Haruna.The Results Verification
Committee is mandated to thoroughly verify results from Schools after
Departmental and School Board meeting before recommending to the Academic Board
for approval.The Central Examination Misconduct Commmitee is mandated to
critically scrutinize cases of Examination Misconduct/malpractice and report to
the Academic Board for approval.
The Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council, Kogi State, Faruk Adejoh-Audu says he cannot congratulate Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello because Kogi State was turned into a war field during the Saturday election.Adejoh-Audu said the election was marred by violence, claiming that nine PDP members were killed during the election.He also explained how the PDP women leader of Ochadamu Ward in Ofu Local Government Area, Salome Abuh, was burnt to death in her home by political thugs.“I will have congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello but unfortunately, I cannot because he won no election. What he won was a war waged by him and the Nigerian Police, so I cannot congratulate him.“His claim that there were just pockets of violence is incorrect. There is hardly any ward in Kogi State except a few that did not experience violence.“Violence is not necessarily when people die, but in this case, people died. At least nine people died, all of them were PDP members. The 10th pe...
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