Poor results: Kogi poly withdraws 193 students

By Esther Innocent

The management of Kogi State Polytechnic in Lokoja has withdrawn the admission of 193 students of the institution over poor academic performance in the 2019/2020 academic session.

The institution’s head of public relations and protocol unit, Uredo Omale, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

According to her, the affected students were from four departments namely; Business Administration, Mathematics and Statistics, Science Laboratory Technology, Library and Information Science. 

Omale further stated that nine students were pulled out from ND I, Mathematics and Statistics, one from ND I Science Laboratory Technology, 130 from ND I Business Administration, 31 from HND I Business Administration, two from ND II library and Information Science and 20 from ND I Library Science.

Omale stated that the academic board of the polytechnic deliberated over the issue and approved the withdrawal of the students during an emergency meeting. 

She said the deputy rector, Kehinde Felix Lamidi, who presided over the emergency meeting, also approved the second semester results for 2019/2020 academic session alongside other pending results.

The deputy rector applauded the central result verification committee for a job well done and thanked members of the academic board for their support.