Benue State Polytechnic

{{Short description|Educational institution in Ugbokolo, Nigeria}}

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| city = Okpokwu

| state = Benue State

| country = Nigeria

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| motto =Excellence and Relevance

| campus = Urban

| type = Public

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| website = {{URL|www.benpolyonline.edu.ng}}

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The Benue State Polytechnic is a tertiary education institute in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu LGA, Benue State, Nigeria.{{Cite web|title=Current List Of (NUC) Approved Polytechnics in Nigeria|url=https://alluniversity.com.ng/polytechnics-in-nigeria/|access-date=2021-06-01|website=Latest JAMB News {{!}} All Nigerian Universities News|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214325/https://alluniversity.com.ng/polytechnics-in-nigeria/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Nigeria|first=Media|date=2018-02-06|title=Polytechnics In Nigeria With State & Location|url=https://www.medianigeria.com/polytechnics-in-nigeria-with-state-location/|access-date=2021-06-01|website=Media Nigeria|language=en-US}} The current Rector is Dr. Usman David Kuti.{{cite web|title=Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokola|url=https://www.benpolyonline.edu.ng|accessdate=27 May 2017}} 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 (1976–1978).{{cite web

|url=http://odili.net/news/source/2006/jan/31/220.html

|title=Benue State at 30: The people and their struggles

|author=Tyodzua Atim

|date=2006-01-30

|publisher=ThisDay

|accessdate=2010-03-21}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

In 1983, the college's Department of Agriculture of the College was merged with Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture.{{cite web

|url=http://aocayandev.org/about.asp

|title=About AOCAY, Yandev

|publisher=Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture, Yandev

|accessdate=2010-03-21

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213082132/http://aocayandev.org/about.asp

|archivedate=2009-02-13

}}

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

|url=http://www.nbte.gov.ng/institutions.html

|title=APPROVED STATE POLYTECHNICS IN NIGERIA

|publisher=National Board for Technical Education

|accessdate=2010-03-22

|archive-date=2017-12-15

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215044312/http://www.nbte.gov.ng/institutions.html

|url-status=dead

}}

Following violence elsewhere in Benue State in March 2006, during a peaceful student protest at the polytechnic about a student killing and against increase in 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.{{cite web

|url=http://www.nasarawastate.org/newsday/news/nasara06/10306141410.html

|title=Benue Poly students told to be loyal

|author=Ogwuche Edward

|work=Nigerian Newsday

|date=March 6, 2006

|accessdate=2010-03-22

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309133952/http://www.nasarawastate.org/newsday/news/nasara06/10306141410.html

|archivedate=2010-03-09

}}

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.{{cite web

|url=http://www.newnigeriannews.com/sunday/politics1.htm

|date=December 7, 2008

|title=Roadmap to prudent resource management

|author=ARCHIBONG ESUENE

|work=New Nigerian News

|accessdate=2010-03-22}}