Wednesday, October 14, 2026 -The Senate of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has expelled a final-year student, Onyewuenyi Chiamaka Nora, over a viral social media video in which she allegedly claimed that a lecturer was handling her final-year research project for N150,000.
The video, which went viral on social media last week,
showed the student discussing her research project.
She struggled to provide further details about the topic and
said her supervisor was handling the work alongside those of other students.
In a statement issued on Monday, October 12, 2026, the
institution’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Ngozi Okiridu, said the decision
followed its Senate meeting held last Wednesday at the Postgraduate Hall, where
members considered the content of the video and the student’s claims.
The university said the Senate found aspects of the
student’s account unacceptable, particularly her description of her project
topic as “Citizenship” and her allegation that her supervisor was writing the
project for her.
The university maintained that there was no project topic
titled “Citizenship” in the Department of English Language and Literary
Studies.
“Senate has expelled Miss Onyewuenyi Chiamaka Nora with
Matriculation Number U/2022/19900, a final-year student of the Department of
English and Literary Studies, over damaging content creation,” the statement
read.
"Recall that the said student had, in an interview that
went viral, claimed that her project topic was Cotizenship' when there is no
such topic as Citizenship in the Department. She also claimed that her
supervisor was the one who wrote the topic project for her.”
The statement added that the expulsion was intended to deter
other students from engaging in similar conduct.
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