Covenant University Expels Over 200 Students For Missing Church Program

     Report Reaching us has it that Covenant University has suspended over 200

students for missing its just concluded Easter Youth Alive? programme. the students were placed on compulsory suspension for not being part of the religious retreat during the Easter celebrations.

    One student of the school, currently in his 4th

year, has this to say:  "We were going for the

services in the morning and night and people

were getting tired of it because we were also

preparing for exams. So, the Vice- Chancellor

got angry and ordered that those who missed

the services be sanctioned."

   Some were suspended for four weeks and those who had missed eight services for the four days got a year.

     Another student in his 3rd year said that

some of them have been prevented from

sitting for exams and they had no means of

protesting the sanctions, which he said was

unfair.

The school environment is really tensed. Though

students are not protesting but they are angry

because you are preparing for an exam you?re

not sure you will sit for, until the paper starts.

   They stopped me from sitting for a paper last

week because I did not go for a service and I

dont know if I will be allowed in today either

he added.