BREAKING NEWS:

Pandemonium broke out on Thursday at the Federal
Polytechnic, Auchi, as scores of rampaging
students sustained various degrees of injuries
following a violent protest over the alleged refusal
of the management of the institution to allow
students who had not paid their school fees to sit
for examination.
Over 50 vehicles belonging to some staff and
management were said to have been destroyed by
the angry students while some offices had their
louvres smashed in the riot that lasted for over four
hours. Trouble was said to have started when security
personnel at the polytechnic prevented some
students from sitting for the examination in
accordance with the directives of the management.
Consequently, some of the students who were said
to have forced their way into the examination hall
had their examination booklets torn by the security
officials.
They were said to have resisted the security agents
on ground and insisted that they should be allowed
to write the exams like other students, a
development which led the violent protest.
Some of the irate students were said to have
lamented the new policy of no school fees, no
examination by the new Rector of the school.
The Public Relation Officer, Auchi Polytechnic,
Mustapher Oshiobugie, who confirmed the incident,
however said the situation has been brought under
control and blamed students who had not been
properly registered by paying their fees for the

violent protest.