The Senate of the University of Port Harcourt has approved the expulsion of 23 students for various offences.

UNIPORT Registrar, Dorcas D-Otto, confirmed the expulsion of the students in a statement obtained by DAILY POST.

The Registrar noted that the “expelled students were found to have engaged in various acts of misconduct, including cultism, assault on lecturers and open threat to law and order in the university.

“Eight of the expelled students were discovered to be members of cult groups; two assaulted a female lecturer and disrupted a congress meeting; while twelve others were former presidents of faculty associations.”

Similarly, the UNIPORT Senate also proscribed a body known as Faculty Presidents Forum for allegedly hijacking the functions of the elected Students’ Union Executive as well as threatening the peace on campus.

The statement also announced the closure of the University of Port Harcourt for the Christmas and New Year holidays with effect from Thursday, 22nd December.

It also indicated that the university would resume for the 2016-2017 Academic Session on 3rd January, 2017.

The Registrar said the decisions were adopted at the 426th Senate meeting of the university, which held on Wednesday, and chaired by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ndowa Lalle.

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