Oyo Govt Suspends Student For Slapping Corps Member

One Roqeeb Ojo, an SSS 2 student of Anglican Commercial Secondary School, Orita-Mefa Ibadan, has been suspended from school for allegedly assaulting a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member.

Reports made available to newsmen on Tuesday (today) by the Oyo State Government confirmed that the teenager slapped the serving Corps Member during school hours.

It was unclear what happened between the corps Member and the student, Naija News understands, however, that the accused has been banned from coming to school for the next one month.

Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Barrister Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem made this disclosure on Tuesday.

The Commissioner said that the “student slapped the corp member resulting in the immediate issuance of one-month suspension to the student.”

Abdu-Raheem who claimed to have visited the school, ordered that a letter of suspension be given to the parents of the student.

He also directed that on his return from suspension, the student, must apologize to the assaulted corps member and sign an undertaking.

The Commissioner while addressing the students warned them against every act of indiscipline, he charged them to be of good behaviour, maintaining that the state government will not condone any act of indiscipline.

He sternly warned that any student caught, acting in an uncivilized manner, will be dismissed from schools in Oyo State.

Meanwhile, the Senate has approved the creation of six additional campuses of the Nigerian Law School by passing a bill that seeks to increase the number of Law School campuses in the country from six to twelve.

This follows the adoption of the recommendation of the Senator Opeyemi Bamidele led Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters that considered the Bill.

The report of the committee was presented during plenary.

The Bill titled “A Bill for an Act to amend the Legal Education (Consolidation, etc) Act by establishing the campuses for the Nigerian Law School, and for other related matters” was sponsored by Senator Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West).

Naija News reports that the Law School currently has campuses located in Lagos (Southwest); Abuja (North Central); Yola, Adamawa State (Northeast); Kano (Northwest); Enugu (Southeast) and Yenegoa, Bayelsa State (South-South).

The locations for the new campuses as contained in the passed bill are: Kabba Law School Campus, Kogi State (Northcentral); Maiduguri Law School Campus, Borno State (Northeast); Argungu Law School Campus, Kebbi State (Northwest), Jos Law School Campus, Plateau State (North Central); Okija Law School Campus, Anambra State (Southeast); Orogun Law School Campus, Delta State (Southsouth) and Ifaki Law School Campus, Ekiti State (Southwest).