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UNIVERSITY OF BENIN SUSPENDS STUDENTS UNION IN THE INSTITUTION

The authorities of University of Benin, has now announced the suspension of members of the three arms of Students’ Union Government in the institution.

The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Benedicta Ehanire, in a statement issued in Benin, said that a caretaker committee would be put in place to manage the affairs of the union.

Ehanire said that the institution’s Senate took the decision to forestall breakdown of law and order, following the planned protest by the students’ union body against the shift in the school’s academic calendar.

Ehanire noted that the senate, however, commended the students for resisting attempts by the students’ union executives to drag them into unwarranted agitations.

Adeyinka Arutu

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