{"id":57039,"date":"2024-11-26T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57039"},"modified":"2024-11-26T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:52:05","slug":"students-to-face-indefinite-suspension-for-bullying-says-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/26\/students-to-face-indefinite-suspension-for-bullying-says-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Students to Face Indefinite Suspension for Bullying, says FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Education has warned that any student found guilty of physical assault resulting in bodily injury will face indefinite suspension from Unity Colleges.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by Dr. Tunji Alausa, Minister of Education, on November 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A memo signed by Permanent Secretary Nasir Gwarzo expressed the ministry&#8217;s deep concern over the increasing violence among students.<\/p>\n<p>To address this issue, the ministry has adopted a stricter stance, emphasizing that such behavior will no longer be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>This warning follows the suspension of 13 students from the Federal Government College in Enugu on November 7, 2024, for their involvement in bullying incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension, set for six weeks, was intended to allow for a full investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The directive came after a disturbing video circulated on social media, showing students physically assaulting another student.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the ministry has decided to enforce harsher penalties to curb the rise in student violence.<\/p>\n<p>The memo stated: &#8220;The attention of the ministry has been drawn to cruel and inhuman acts of physical assault that inflict bodily injury on other students by fellow students or groups of students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to existing penalties outlined in the ministry\u2019s uniform guidelines for offenses, any student or group found guilty of physical assault resulting in bodily harm will face indefinite suspension.<\/p>\n<p>College administrators have been directed to ensure strict compliance with this directive and to communicate its contents to Student-Based Management Committee members and parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Federal Ministry of Education has warned that any student found guilty of physical assault resulting in bodily injury will face indefinite suspension from Unity Colleges. The announcement was made by Dr. Tunji Alausa, Minister of Education, on November 26, 2024. A memo signed by Permanent Secretary Nasir Gwarzo expressed the ministry&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57041,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57039\/revisions\/57041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}