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The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has reacted to a violent incident involving students of the institution and Nigerian soldiers. On.

This led to resistance from the students and subsequently a clash with the soldiers. Below are some of the reactions on social media. Efforts by some spirited Nigerians and the Divisional Police Officer, Ugbowo Division, eventually restored calm.

By Jethro Ibileke. Some angry students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Thursday clashed with a soldier from the nearby S & T Military Barracks, ...

A statement by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. “Management also calls on the students to constantly engage dialogue in resolving issues that concern them rather than taking to protests, at any provocation, thereby causing more injury and damage to themselves and other citizens,” she admonished. The vice chancellor however advised the students to learn to resort to dialogue in resolving issues that concern them rather than taking to protests, at the slightest provocation, as such actions cause more injury and damage to themselves and other fellow citizens.

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Lilian Salami, has expressed worry over the attack on her students by soldiers.

2, resulting from alleged resistance of students to the soldiers’ attempt to jump ATM queues on campus has been brought under control. Lilian Salami, has expressed worry over the attack on her students by soldiers. In a statement she issued on Friday, Prof.

The University of Benin was on Thursday thrown into pandemonium when some soldiers attached to the Army Supply and Transport (S&T) Barracks, Ugbowo, ...

One of the students who spoke on condition of anonymity said the soldiers are in the habit of doing it The soldiers, according to eyewitnesses who spoke on the drama were said to have had an altercation with the students over whose turn to withdraw from ATM, owned by one of the banks at the university premises. The students who felt cheated by the act decided to stop the soldiers and a fracas ensued on the institution’s premises.

The alleged 'reprisals' came last night following Thursday's clash between some UNIBEN students and soldiers, resulting from resistance of the students to ...

Some of the injured, this Reporter gathered, were taken to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) for urgent medical attention. Things, however, escalated quickly after the soldiers reportedly attempted to forcefully abduct the student to their barrack apparently to ‘deal with her’ but for the quick intervention of the school security department. This, however, did not go down well with other civilians on queue who attempted to mediate or intervene.

It was tales of woes, sorrow and blood for some students and staff of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Edo State when unspecified number of yet-to-be.

The soldier was eventually said to have escaped from the university campus through the fence. A security officer on campus, who was said to have intervened in the ensuing melee, was allegedly assaulted by the angry soldiers. The soldiers were said to have descended on a female student, who they assumed was video-recording the act.