Provost of the School of Midwifery in Minna, Niger Mrs Aisha Maikudi, said the school has rusticated 50 students during the 2016/2017 session as a result of academic incompetence. ‎

She ‎said the students were withdrawn because they were not academically competent to cope with the academic and professional standard of the institution. ‎

Maikudi however noted that the action did not go down well with some parents and guardians ‎as they claimed that their wards finished from the best schools in the country.

The provost said that the internal screening of students by withdrawing the incompetent ones had helped the school in achieving a success rate of 98 and 100 per cent, respectively.

She explained that the measure they were taking to withdraw incompetent students had helped a lot in charting a better part for the students, school and the state.

According to her, mass failure at the external examination will have been catastrophic for the school and the state but for the internal screening via the internal examination. ‎

Maikudi therefore called on parents and guardians to believe in the measure they were taking as they had to go by standard via examination to sanitise the system.

She also urged parents and guardians to encourage their children and wards not to compromise their studies, saying that their bright future lies in education.