FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY MINNA, NIGER STATE PROF. TURKUR SA’AD (VICE CHANCELLOR) FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA, NIGER STATE. MALLAM MOHAMMED DATI USMAN (ACTING REGISTRAR) FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA, NIGER STATE A. N. KOLO (THE ACTING SECRETARY) FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA, NIGER STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA, NIGER STATE V. BUKOLA OLUWASEUN OLUTAYO

EKO JSC: (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The respondent was, at all times material to this appeal, a student of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, particularly in the Department of Agric Engineering within the School of Science and Engineering Technology. In May 2004, she sat, as she claims, for the 2003/ 2004 First Semester Examination in Chem.III. She claims also that before the examination, she signed-in, and later signed-out after the examination. The custom is that no student must leave the examination hall, after the examination, until he had duly submitted his answer sheets, and had mandatorily signed-out. The results of the said first semester examination were later released and pasted at the notice board. The result posted showed clearly, that the respondent got 37 marks for Chem.III. That result was later withdrawn from the notice board, and replaced with another result which showed and suggested that she was absent and did not write Chem.III examination. The res…