Students’ Union Activities (Control and Regulation) Act

An Act to vest in university authorities the power to regulate the activities of stu-

dents’ union and associations and to empower the Minister to suspend or expel

any student.

[1989 No. 47.]

[27 th December, 1989]

[Commencement.]

Students’ participation in union activities to be voluntary

ties shall be voluntary, and confined 10 individual campuses of universities or institutions

of higher learning or any other similar institutions.

Chancellor or any authority or person in charge of or in control of any university, higher

institution or similar institution from making regulations for the purposes of controlling

student union activities within aforesaid institutions.

Power of Governing Council, etc., to proscribe unlawful societies

campus of a university or any institution of higher learning in Nigeria is pursuing activi-

ties which are-

rality or public health; or

or in control of the university or institution of higher learning may, after conducting in-

vestigations with respect thereto, proscribe any such society.

himself or organise other students to participate in the activities of any society proscribed

pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

Power of the Minister to suspend, expel, etc.

opinion that public interest or public safety so demands, suspend for any specified period

of time, remove, withdraw or expel any student (whether undergraduate, post-graduate or

otherwise) from any university, institution of higher learning or similar institution.