The Senate of the University of Ibadan has taken decisive institutional action, directing 226 undergraduate students to withdraw after failing to meet the university’s minimum academic standard.

Authorities say the decision followed a Senate meeting held last Monday, where results for the 2024/2025 academic session covering both graduating and non-graduating students were formally reviewed and approved.

At the centre of the decision is a clear policy threshold: students whose cumulative grade point average fell below 1.0 were deemed academically ineligible to continue, triggering an automatic advisory to withdraw from the programme.

How the decision is enforced is equally firm. University officials confirm that affected students have been locked out of the school’s online portal, effectively halting further course registration and academic activities.

The withdrawals cut across the institution, affecting students from 100 to 500 levels and spanning nearly all faculties, underscoring that the rule is applied system-wide rather than targeting any single department.

Breakdowns released by the university show the Faculty of Science recording the highest number of withdrawals with 79 students, followed by the Faculty of Technology with 45 and the Faculty of Agriculture with 35, while Medicine and Education recorded 18 cases each among other faculties with smaller figures.

University sources describe the exercise as a routine but necessary quality control measure aimed at preserving academic standards, noting that similar actions have occurred in previous years, including a larger withdrawal of 408 students in 2018 an episode students themselves famously nicknamed “tsunami.”