Plateau Polytechnic Rector, John Dawam, made the clarification at a news conference on Tuesday in Barkin-Ladi.
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The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dan Manjang, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos.
The students trooped out in large numbers and blocked the Yakubu Gowon Way, a major highway leading into and out of Jos.
He had invited a 23-year-old girl to his house for a birthday party before he sexually assaulting her, the prosecution said
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited the school, found the students camped at the gate which they locked, preventing movement into or out of the campus.
The fire, which started around 8.30am, raged on till 11.44am, throwing the entire school into confusion as students and staffers scurried to safety with some bold students making frantic but fruitless efforts to quench the inferno.