Benue State Polytechnic
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The Benue State Polytechnic is a tertiary education institute in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu
Okpokwu
Okpokwu is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Okpoga.Benue State Polytechnic is located in the town of Ugbokolo in this LGA.It has an area of 731 km² and a population of 176,647 at the 2006 census....

 LGA, Benue State
Benue State
Benue is a state in the Middle-Belt region of Nigeria with a population of about 2.8 million in 1991. Tiv, Idoma, and Igede are spoken predominantly. There are other ethnic groups as well. These include Etulo and Abakwa...

, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

. It was originally known as the Murtala College of Arts, Science and Technology, established in 1977 by the military governor of Benue State, Colonel Abdullahi Shelleng
Abdullahi Shelleng
Colonel Abdullahi Shelleng was the first Military Governor of Benue State, Nigeria from 3 February 1976 to July 1978 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo, after Benue State had been split from the old Benue-Plateau State.-Background and education:Abdullahi Shelleng was born on...

 (1976-1978).
In 1983, the college's Department of Agriculture of the College was merged with Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture
Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture
Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture, Yandev is a tertiary educational institution in Yandev near Gboko, Benue State, Nigeria.The college dates back to 1926 when the British government established a farm training center at Yandex, then in Tiv province of the Northern Region.In 1973 the Benue State...

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The school is approved as a state-owned polytechnic by the National Board for Technical Education.

Following violence elsewhere in Benue State in March 2006, during a peaceful student protest at the polytechnic about a student killing and against higher fees, the chairman of Okpokwu Local Government urged students not to take the law into their own hands. At the 29th Matriculation Ceremony of new students later that month the rector urged students to shun all social ills.
In November 2008 the polytechnic's school of Business and Management Studies organized its first annual national conference with the theme: Imperatives of Prudent Resources Management in Nigeria for Sustainable Development.
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