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Video: Lecturer Suspended For Assaulting Male Student

Video: Lecturer Suspended For Assaulting Male Student
  • PublishedMarch 14, 2025

The management of Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, has suspended Mr. Okoroafor Ifeanyichukwu, a facilitator at the institution, following an assault on a male student.

The lecture was captured in a viral video which surfaced on social media on Friday.

The video showed Mr Ifeanyichukwu physically assaulting the male student identified as Chidera.

The facilitator slapped the student and then kicked him, causing him to fall heavily on a cemented walkway before he (the lecturer) then walked away.

In a formal notice dated March 14, 2025, and referenced FPN/TEDC/80/1, the Polytechnic’s administration announced the suspension of the facilitator.

The letter revealed that Mr. Ifeanyichukwu’s suspension will remain in effect pending the results of an ongoing investigation into the event, which occurred on March 13, 2025, during an entrepreneurship training session at the Technical and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (TEDC).

The suspension notice was signed by Dr. Okoye P.C., Director of TEDC, and was distributed to key members of the institution’s leadership, including the Rector, the Dean of Student Affairs, and the Student Union Government.

The letter read, “You are hereby suspended from duty as a facilitator in the Technical and Entrepreneurship Development Centre pending the outcome of investigation into the incident that occurred yesterday 13th March, 2025 at the site of your entrepreneurship training.”