AAU cancels final year exams over ‘Wild Jubilation’

The management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) in Ekpoma, Edo State, has announced the cancellation of final year examinations written on January 29 by graduating students from the institution’s Faculty of Arts.

The university’s Registrar, Mr Ephraim Isiraojie, in a memo on Thursday, said the decision followed the ‘wild jubilation’ and celebration by graduating students which violated the university’s directives.

Isiraojie said that despite memos prohibiting such celebrations, students from the departments of Mass Communication, English, History, and International Studies contravened the university’s extant laws by engaging in car displays.

He said the students used sirens, sprayed money, and blocked access roads leading in and out of the university.

“The university management, in an emergency meeting held on Wednesday, 29th January 2025, has decided to invoke the extant laws on wild jubilation/celebration.

“The management has thereby cancelled all the final year examinations written on Wednesday, 29th January 2025, including but not limited to the following: ELS41I; MAC 414; IIIS416.

“The university management shall decide in due course when such cancelled examinations shall be rescheduled,” the registrar said.

Isiraojie said this should serve as a deterrent to all graduating students, who were yet to complete their final year examinations.

He stressed that the university’s management was keen on maintaining order and discipline on campus