{"id":73738,"date":"2025-08-20T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73738"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:01:58","slug":"unizik-bans-final-year-signing-off-over-violence-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/unizik-bans-final-year-signing-off-over-violence-disruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIZIK Bans Final-Year \u2018Signing Off\u2019 Over Violence, Disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, has banned the popular \u201csigning off\u201d ritual among final-year students, citing chaos, violence, and disruption of academic activities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Tuesday and signed by the Registrar, Dr. Chinenye Okeke, the university said the ban takes immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university management wishes to inform you that, effective immediately, all forms of orchestration (\u2018signing off\u2019) related to final examinations by final-year students are completely and indefinitely banned from the university premises,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Okeke noted that the exercise had become a threat to safety and security, often drawing in unauthorised individuals who cause disorder on campus.<\/p>\n<p>She warned that any student caught engaging in the ritual would face severe disciplinary action, including possible rustication, while outsiders found disrupting the peace would be arrested and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Reassuring the university community, the Registrar stressed that UNIZIK remains committed to a safe and secure learning environment and urged students to focus on their academic responsibilities while reporting any misconduct to the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, has banned the popular \u201csigning off\u201d ritual among final-year students, citing chaos, violence, and disruption of academic activities. In a statement issued Tuesday and signed by the Registrar, Dr. Chinenye Okeke, the university said the ban takes immediate effect. \u201cThe university management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73738","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=73738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73740,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73738\/revisions\/73740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}