The management of the Federal Polytechnic Idah has announced a total ban on students’ graduation ceremonies known as the ‘sign-out’ ceremony across all its campuses.

Management said the ritual by graduating students to embark on celebrations after their final exams was becoming wild, excessive, and unacceptable to the Polytechnic community.

In a statement yesterday in Idah, Dean of Student Affairs, F.E. Omagu, said the decision to ban the ceremony was aimed at curbing such disruptive behavior and restoring peace within the school community.

The statement described students’ final year exam parties on campus as unruly behavior and said the ban was a direct response by management to sanitize social activities in the institution.

“Such activities, which include signing on shirts, spraying water, spraying of cash, reckless motorcycle/vehicle rides, and excessive noisy jubilation, are considered wild and have been deemed unacceptable within the campus and the surrounding community.

“The ban on the so-called sign-out ceremonies by any of our students and any other social activities considered inappropriate within the campus and the area of polytechnic jurisdiction by the management will no longer be tolerated.

“The ban stands as a stern warning to individual or groups of students, including their guests, that any of them found defying this directive will face appropriate disciplinary action.”

The statement advised final-year students to conclude their academic programs quietly and take their ceremonies far away from the school community.

“The management joins graduating students in congratulating you for the successful completion of your second-semester examinations, wishing you positive outcomes.”

The Guardian reports that sign-out ceremonies upon completion of semester examinations or final-year examinations often lead to instances of violence, destruction of school property, disruption of peace on campus, and generate tension and apprehension within the polytechnic community. Oftentimes, such sign-out ceremonies attract displays of cultic activities.