Nigeria, Oct. 5 -- Some students have called on the management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) to discipline a lecturer, Adebambo Somuyiwa, who allegedly extorted students in 2018.

Mr Somiyiwa, who is the Head of the Department of Transport Management, reportedly requested all the 2017/2018 final year students to pay N3000 each for him to append his signature on their clearance forms.

Failure to be 'cleared' meant a delay in the mobilisation of the students for the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.

About 400 graduating students were made to make the illegal payment.

It was also gathered that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) intervened and the faculty was tempor...