Nigeria, July 11 -- The Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan on Wednesday burnt over 1,000 mobile telephones worth millions of naira.

Our correspondent gathered that the mobile telephones were seized from students during various examinations conducted in the institution in the last year.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered on Thursday that the telephones were seized and subsequently burnt in order to reduce examination malpractices through the use of information and communication technology.

The mobile telephones, with prices ranging from N10,000 and above, include Nokia, Tecno, Samsung, and BlackBerry products, among others.

The burning of the items was supervised by a senior lecturer and the immediate past Deputy Rector of the institution, Bayo...