The Senate of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has expelled final-year student Onyewuenyi Chiamaka Nora over a viral social media video about her research project.
The video, which circulated last week, showed Nora discussing her final-year project. She struggled to explain the topic in detail and claimed her supervisor was handling her work alongside those of other students.
In a statement released on Monday, October 12, 2026, the university’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Ngozi Okiridu, said the decision was reached during a Senate meeting last Wednesday at the Postgraduate Hall.
The university said it found her claims unacceptable, especially her description of the project topic as “Citizenship” and her allegation that her supervisor was writing the work for her. It also stressed that no project topic titled “Citizenship” exists 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 university added that the expulsion was meant to discourage other students from engaging in similar conduct.
