{"id":68832,"date":"2025-06-23T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68832"},"modified":"2025-06-23T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:18","slug":"kogi-poly-expels-6-withdraws-273-students-over-exam-malpractice-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/23\/kogi-poly-expels-6-withdraws-273-students-over-exam-malpractice-poor-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Poly Expels 6, Withdraws 273 Students Over Exam Malpractice, Poor Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Board of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, has expelled six students and withdrawn 273 others following various academic offenses, including examination malpractice and poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued on Monday by the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Uredo A. Male, the decision was taken during the board\u2019s 120th meeting held on April 17, 2025, after reviewing the first semester results for the 2024-2025 academic session.<\/p>\n<p>The expelled students, including two for impersonation and four for being caught with unauthorized materials, were sanctioned in line with the institution\u2019s handbook on examination misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The students were from the Business Administration, Accountancy, and Mass Communication departments.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 273 students across 42 programmes in 20 departments, including Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Library Science, and Office Technology, were withdrawn due to unsatisfactory academic performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Rector and Chairman of the Academic Board, Professor Salisu Ogbo Usman, commended the Result Verification and Examination Misconduct Committees for their diligence and urged continued efforts to uphold academic integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Affected students have been instructed to return all polytechnic property, including ID cards, before leaving the institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Academic Board of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, has expelled six students and withdrawn 273 others following various academic offenses, including examination malpractice and poor performance. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Uredo A. Male, the decision was taken during the board\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68832","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68834,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68832\/revisions\/68834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}