Viral video: Excel College explains what happened, steps taken

By Adesina Wahab

The absorption of Excel College, Ejigbo, Lagos State has said that 2 abstracted incidents were merged successful the viral video that depicted immoderate misconduct connected the portion of immoderate students of the assemblage who graduated past June.

Briefing newsmen astatine the weekend, the Director of the college, Dr Dele Oke, besides listed immoderate of the steps truthful acold taken by the absorption successful respect of the development.

Oke said connected May 11, 2025, a woman, whose lad was marking his day connected that day, came to the schoolhouse requesting to spot her lad successful the hostel.

“It was connected a Sunday and the pistillate came astatine astir 7pm requesting to spot her son. The students were preparing for the SSSCE introspection and it was the past day that lad would people arsenic a pupil of our college. We obliged her arsenic she came with a non-alcoholic wine. The lad and his friends conscionable popped the vino and thing more.

“The 2nd incidental was successful April 2025 during the vacation hold people for the SSS3 students. The students had rolled papers and were experimenting with smoking done a crippled called Pass and Puff. They recorded the scene. The signaling was imaginable due to the fact that we usually don’t let them entree to their phones, they had entree past due to the fact that we wanted them to show the update connected their UTME centres. They shared the video connected their Whatsapp group. The incidental was brought to the attraction of the absorption successful June by a acrophobic parent.

“Parents of the indicted students were promptly invited to the schoolhouse and the students progressive were banned from attending the Class of 2025 Graduating Students ceremonies. The students were besides sent location and lone allowed backmost a week to the commencement of their NECO exams.

“The House Masters were besides issued stringent informing letters and they were made to suffer immoderate allowances. We don’t condone misconduct successful our college. In each of this, we kept the enactment of the Parent Teacher Association successful the know,* helium said.

To forestall a recurrence of specified incidental successful the future, Oke said up of the resumption of a caller session, the hostel for boys has been moved to wherever it would beryllium adequately monitored.

He added that the absorption with the Lagos State Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Youth, the constabulary and different investigating agencies.

Speaking connected the matter, Sir Ndubuisi Udeagu, the PTA Chairman, said the absorption of the assemblage did not fell thing from parents.

He noted that specified a happening has ne'er happened successful the schoolhouse wherever his children person been students for years.

He added that it was unfortunate that youthful exuberance had been turned into different issue.

Speaking successful the aforesaid vein, Victor Anyali, Adewale Ogunlari and Judith Ekwebelem who are besides parents, described Excel College arsenic having zero tolerance for misconduct and non-conforming societal behaviours.

The station Viral video: Excel College explains what happened, steps taken appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.