University of Lagos is to screen its newly-admitted students for hard drugs.

According to the University, the screening is to ensure a drug-free academic community as well as promote peaceful co-existence.

Its Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Taiwo Oloyede, warned that the university would not hesitate to withdraw admission of new students who would test positive to hard drugs.

Oloyede said all newly-admitted students would undergo the screening before registration, saying this test is compulsory and will be administered on new students before they are allowed to go ahead with registration.

She said admission of any newly-admitted students who test positive to drug use shall be withdrawn, saying students must be seen to be good products not only of the institution, but the larger society.

Oloyede said the University wanted to ensure it get students who would be willing to maintain peace, show leadership qualities and be law-abiding, saying preparations for registration of new students admitted on merit had been concluded.

According to her, the registration will begin on October twenty-two and end on November nine, saying the institution will admit no fewer than six thousand students into its undergraduate programmes for the twenty-eighteen/twenty-nineteen academic year.

She said thirty-six thousand two hundred and eighteen candidates, who applied for admission in the university, scored two hundred and above in the twenty-eighteen Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME.

According to her, of the figure, thirty thousand two hundred and one sat for the university’s post UTME test.

She said commencement of academic activities for the session had been tentatively fixed for November nineteen.