The Federal University of Technology, Owerri -FUTO, has reinstated nine student activists expelled in February last year for their involvement in a protest against tuition fees hike.
In a recall letter issued to each of the affected students on Friday, the university said it had reversed its decision during a meeting of the Senate in July.
The recall is subject to the paying of surcharges and signing of an undertaking along with their parents, to be of good behaviour for the rest of their studentship in the University.
Some of those affected are Collins Ogbonna, Elvis Onuoha, Ebuka Odunze, Kenneth Megwa, Nnamdi Madu and Collins Ugwu.
The students had approached a court to press for their reinstatement before the school pardoned them. The fees hike that triggered the demonstration on February 17, 2017, was not reviewed despite the protest that got them expelled.