FOR the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), it is the dawn of a new era, occasioned by the ongoing infrastructural development of the institution and the landscaping of the university environment.
Hitherto, the institution established by the Chief Adekunle Ajasin's administration in the Old Ondo state, has had the misfortune of poor infrastructural facilities which contributed in no measure to the decay in the university. Not only were the facilities inadequate for the thousands of students, there was the problem of over crowding in many lecture rooms to the extent that students stand on their feet for hours to receive lectures.
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Beyond this was the intrusion of many social vices including examination malpractices, certificate forgery and the other vices that plagued university education in the country. The university was also the destination of many cultists as incessant clashes among cultists was the order of the day in the past.
But in the last 20 months, there has been a gradual transformation of the institution. For instance, the construction of lecture theatres and other major buildings is already giving the university a new look.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Dipo Kolawole, said the vision of the management is to build a university that could compare favourably with its contemporaries anywhere in the world. With the slogan "Team UNAD," the focus of the management is to lay emphasis on increased productivity of staff and attainment high academic standards.
Speaking on the new programme, Kolawole said what the management has been able to achieve behavioural re-orientation of both the students and staff, to achieve the dream of the founders of the institution. The students were re-oriented to be proud of their institution and to always consider the image and interest of the university in any action taken by them.
Part of the orientation is the stoppage of sale of handouts and the encouragement of the lecturers to do more research and writing of books in their area of specialisation.
Also, there is the conscious re-orientation of the students to desist from cultism, which has paid off with the reduction in cult clashes.
As part of the behavioural re-orientation, the staff were made to work for their pay which has changed the normal way of doing things in the institution. Hitherto, as at 9.00am, many of the staff would still be found on the streets of Ado-Ekiti looking for vehicles to take them to their place of work but this has changed with the directive that all workers must be at their desk by 8.00am.
Kolawole who is introducing the reforms, has also made himself a model for his staff to follow. Not only does he resume work before 8.00am, he has also ensured that the university senate meeting which holds at 12.00pm now holds at 8.00am. He disclosed to newsmen in a recent chat, that as he was introducing the reforms, he has equally ensured that the university is alert to the demands of its workers, especially in the payment of their entitlements to further encourage them to increase their productivity.
His words: "we don't need to provoke the unions to go on strike before we address their demands, within the limits of our resources." He added that in most times the university has met the unions demand by engaging them from time to time to ensure industrial harmony on campus.
In the area of infrastructural development, the university has also achieved giant strides. For example, an imposing edifice in the heart of the institution campus will house the Faculty of Engineering of the institution. The contract, awarded to Messers Three Os Nig. Ltd at a cost of N210 million in July this year, is nearing completion. The completion date according to the Vice Chancellor is March, next year.
Not only will the building add to the beauty of the campus, it will also end the accommodation problem confronting the staff of the faculty.
Another major landmark is the 3,000 seater multi-purpose hall that will serve as lecture theatres when completed. The project being handled Viadam Nig. Ltd. at a cost of N210 million, will end the shortage of lecture rooms for students. A situation where students are crowded in a small room to receive lectures is gradually being solved with the new multi-purpose hall, which can accommodate three lectures at a time.
One curious thing about these projects is that they are being funded from internally generated revenue. Kolawole said the university has not accessed its capital fund for this year because it has not been released by the proprietor. But he has taken the matter up with, the state governor, Mr Segun Oni. He hopes with the assurances given by Oni, the university would receive a huge amount to put up more buildings in the university campus.
Already, a 500 seater lecture theatre funded by the Education Trust Fund (ETF) has just be completed. The lecture theatre is being expanded to accommodate about 1,500 students at a time. Thee project which gulped N76 million was constructed by Messers Pavebay Nig. Ltd.
Another major project completed by the Kolawole administration is the university computer centre with 65 work stations, which complements the existing one in the university that has just been renovated. A coordinator has been appointed for the computer centre in the person of Prof. F.M. Aderibigbe.
Kolawole said the university has also built a Moot Court as part of its preparation for the full accreditation of its law faculty, which was given partial accreditation by the National Universities Commission and the Council for Legal Education. Describing the Moot Court as the best ever in any African University, the Vice Chancellor said the university is fully prepared for the accreditation team visit in January next year.
Speaking on the various building projects, Kolawole said the "university is moving from functional buildings to those with aesthetic value to the beauty of the campus. We are reconstructing the gate of the university and carried out the landscaping of the university campus".
He said the institution is in the process of re-roofing the main administrative building donated to it by the late philantropic, Dr Lawrence Omolayo. Apart from the roofing, the entire building will be renovated while new paints will adorn it.
To ensure improve electricity supply, the institution has awarded contract for the extension of a dedicated power line from Basiri area of Ado-Ekiti to the university campus. The project awarded to Messers T.J. and Associates will be completed next year.
Kolawole also disclosed that the Part-Time Programme unit of the institution has put in place its own structures from ints internally generated saying since the establishment of the university, it has not witnessed a situation where various units are in competiton to build their own structures from revenue generated from internal sources.
With a measure of confidence, he stressed that with the completion of all ongoing projects by early next year the institution would rank among the best in the country.
He however pointed out that the constraint of fund is hidering the execution of his loft programmes for the progress of the institution. A professor of political science, Kolawole said this accounted for the recent hike in fess payable in the institution.
Though, the new regime fees will not affect returning students, the decision was to ensure that more funds are available to keep the university running.
Kolawole who is also the chairman of the Peace and Security Committee of African Union ECOSOC, maintained that if the institution did not do something about generating more fund internally, it would not able to meet its responsibility to staff and students.
According to him, new students are now to pay between N90,000 and N200,000 depending on their departments. While those in Arts and Social Sciences Pay N90,000 those in faculty of Medicines will have to cough out N200,000.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
UniJos medical student wins Etisalat one9ja million dollars
It was Friday, November 6, 2009. Etisalat Nigeria chose this day to specifically bring to a glorious end the over five months old 9jillions promo. The venue of the event, a massive tent built on Landmark Village within Oniru Private Estate in Victoria Island was packed full with 0809ja network subscribers, a combination of regional finalists from the game show across eight cities and Express Ticket holders.
But of this multitude aspiring to be millionaires, only 30 would participate in the 9jillions Grand Finale promo.
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Distinguished personalities including Secretary to the State Government, Princess Denrele Adeniran Ogunsanya were assigned the task of picking the tickets from the game show machine that housed the tickets of participants.
30 grand finalists were selected at random amidst cheers and excitement. 24 from the pool of regional finalists while six persons emerged from the category of Express Tickets Holders. But they all had one thing in common. Each of them must smile home with one million naira each.
The Express Tickets bearers are customers who have spent up to a thousand naira on airtime within a month. “Those of them who are here today were those that emerged from the draw designed to determine those who will get an express ticket to the grand finale,” said the Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria.
The 24 regional finalists came in teams of four representing various regions of the country. Hassan, Samson, Doyin and Helti of Abuja region. Bukola, Yusuf, Abosede and Abiodun represented Sokoto. From Kaduna were Kizito, Justina, Gerald and Judith. Glory, Festus, Justina and Esther made up the group 13B while 38B comprised of Adeoye, Happiness, Tunji and Segun. In group 40B were Chukwudi, Roseline and Blessing.
Express Ticket holders were paired. Nasiru and Habiba; Olalekan and Olutoyin; Ruth and Olajide. These duos were first timers on the show and so were more advantaged. While they were generously entitled to play twice, the others had only one chance to grab a million naira. At each punch of their selected numbers they would automatically win one million naira respectively.
Then the long awaited moment came. Each of the participants punched the keys of their chosen numbers from listed figures 1 to 30 on the game console. Pegged to one of these numbers is the $1m.
Done with that, it was time to reveal the winnings of the participants’ one after the other. Who amongst these 30 people would go away with this swooping one million dollars? Tension and anxiety swayed the hall. The grand finale 9jillion promo participants were the worst hit. The special guests, Etisalat team and journalists were not spared either.
The search for the one million dollars winner commenced. 27 participants so far won one million naira each. The reveal of the winnings gradually scaled down to three- Chukwudi, Bukola and Kizito of Benin, Sokoto and Kaduna regions respectively. The hall became more tensed than ever. One thing was clear. One of these three persons will emerge the one million dollar winner. Speculations raved. People were divided as they prophesied the winner. When the host of the show, Dijinee, called out Chukwudi to reveal the prize behind his single-digit number, 7, a cross section of the people thought he had won the star prize. Chukwudi believed he had grabbed the $1m. Hear him, “God has revealed to me that I’m going to win. God will not fail me. He has assured me that I would emerge the winner of the grand finale”.
Did he eventually win? No. Like the 27, he too carted away the standard sum of N1m. With Chukwudi gone, the juicy prize was left to Bukola and Kizito. Bukola wished she won it. So did Kizito. Anxiety crept into both of them in large dosages. There became so anxious and were in a hurry to know their fate. Djinee sought their feelings. Bukola likened the situation to sitting on a hot seat while Kizito said he was experiencing a rise in his blood pressure.
Djinee called for the reveal of Kizito’s win. The crowd roared, “Oh, Kizito has lost”. Bukola suddenly regained her composure. She was obviously beaming with pleasure.
But the unexpected happened. Kizito’s chosen two-digit number, 18, was pegged to the largest individual prize ever awarded in the history of consumer promotions in Nigeria, $1m. Kizito was shocked to his bone marrows. He found it hard to believe. The 20-year old Medical and Surgery undergraduate of University of Jos smiled as if to reconcile himself with the reality on ground. He couldn’t curtail it. Kizito lost control and went bizarre. He raced out off the stage. It took the intervention of the security and medical personnel for him to regain his consciousness.
The grand finale of 9jillions game show was the climax of Etisalat promo that started over five months ago. The promo was in two phases. In the first leg of the promo that lasted for 90 days, subscribers won two phones every two hours a day. The Chief Executive of Etisalat Nigeria said, “In total, we gave out four thousand, three hundred and twenty phones”. According to Evans, the second phase of the promo was dedicated to regional game shows held in eight cities across the country. He recounted, “At each of these cities, a minimum of 36 people won various amounts of money. From fifty thousand naira to over three million naira. We had subscribers punching away at our game console and walking away with millions of naira richer. Across the eight cities where the One9ja game show made different stops, two hundred and eighty eight people won various cash prizes while fifty six of these became instant millionaires. Some won one million naira each, some won two million naira”.
Etisalat has no doubt touched the lives of Nigerians in ways that no other telecoms company has been able to do since GSM came to Nigeria.
Congratulations Kizito!
But of this multitude aspiring to be millionaires, only 30 would participate in the 9jillions Grand Finale promo.
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Distinguished personalities including Secretary to the State Government, Princess Denrele Adeniran Ogunsanya were assigned the task of picking the tickets from the game show machine that housed the tickets of participants.
30 grand finalists were selected at random amidst cheers and excitement. 24 from the pool of regional finalists while six persons emerged from the category of Express Tickets Holders. But they all had one thing in common. Each of them must smile home with one million naira each.
The Express Tickets bearers are customers who have spent up to a thousand naira on airtime within a month. “Those of them who are here today were those that emerged from the draw designed to determine those who will get an express ticket to the grand finale,” said the Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria.
The 24 regional finalists came in teams of four representing various regions of the country. Hassan, Samson, Doyin and Helti of Abuja region. Bukola, Yusuf, Abosede and Abiodun represented Sokoto. From Kaduna were Kizito, Justina, Gerald and Judith. Glory, Festus, Justina and Esther made up the group 13B while 38B comprised of Adeoye, Happiness, Tunji and Segun. In group 40B were Chukwudi, Roseline and Blessing.
Express Ticket holders were paired. Nasiru and Habiba; Olalekan and Olutoyin; Ruth and Olajide. These duos were first timers on the show and so were more advantaged. While they were generously entitled to play twice, the others had only one chance to grab a million naira. At each punch of their selected numbers they would automatically win one million naira respectively.
Then the long awaited moment came. Each of the participants punched the keys of their chosen numbers from listed figures 1 to 30 on the game console. Pegged to one of these numbers is the $1m.
Done with that, it was time to reveal the winnings of the participants’ one after the other. Who amongst these 30 people would go away with this swooping one million dollars? Tension and anxiety swayed the hall. The grand finale 9jillion promo participants were the worst hit. The special guests, Etisalat team and journalists were not spared either.
The search for the one million dollars winner commenced. 27 participants so far won one million naira each. The reveal of the winnings gradually scaled down to three- Chukwudi, Bukola and Kizito of Benin, Sokoto and Kaduna regions respectively. The hall became more tensed than ever. One thing was clear. One of these three persons will emerge the one million dollar winner. Speculations raved. People were divided as they prophesied the winner. When the host of the show, Dijinee, called out Chukwudi to reveal the prize behind his single-digit number, 7, a cross section of the people thought he had won the star prize. Chukwudi believed he had grabbed the $1m. Hear him, “God has revealed to me that I’m going to win. God will not fail me. He has assured me that I would emerge the winner of the grand finale”.
Did he eventually win? No. Like the 27, he too carted away the standard sum of N1m. With Chukwudi gone, the juicy prize was left to Bukola and Kizito. Bukola wished she won it. So did Kizito. Anxiety crept into both of them in large dosages. There became so anxious and were in a hurry to know their fate. Djinee sought their feelings. Bukola likened the situation to sitting on a hot seat while Kizito said he was experiencing a rise in his blood pressure.
Djinee called for the reveal of Kizito’s win. The crowd roared, “Oh, Kizito has lost”. Bukola suddenly regained her composure. She was obviously beaming with pleasure.
But the unexpected happened. Kizito’s chosen two-digit number, 18, was pegged to the largest individual prize ever awarded in the history of consumer promotions in Nigeria, $1m. Kizito was shocked to his bone marrows. He found it hard to believe. The 20-year old Medical and Surgery undergraduate of University of Jos smiled as if to reconcile himself with the reality on ground. He couldn’t curtail it. Kizito lost control and went bizarre. He raced out off the stage. It took the intervention of the security and medical personnel for him to regain his consciousness.
The grand finale of 9jillions game show was the climax of Etisalat promo that started over five months ago. The promo was in two phases. In the first leg of the promo that lasted for 90 days, subscribers won two phones every two hours a day. The Chief Executive of Etisalat Nigeria said, “In total, we gave out four thousand, three hundred and twenty phones”. According to Evans, the second phase of the promo was dedicated to regional game shows held in eight cities across the country. He recounted, “At each of these cities, a minimum of 36 people won various amounts of money. From fifty thousand naira to over three million naira. We had subscribers punching away at our game console and walking away with millions of naira richer. Across the eight cities where the One9ja game show made different stops, two hundred and eighty eight people won various cash prizes while fifty six of these became instant millionaires. Some won one million naira each, some won two million naira”.
Etisalat has no doubt touched the lives of Nigerians in ways that no other telecoms company has been able to do since GSM came to Nigeria.
Congratulations Kizito!
IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY
Igbinedion University is a private university in Nigeria. Located at Okada Wonderland, a town beside Benin City, Edo state, the University was founded by Sir Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, a millionaire, philanthropist and local leader. The university operates on a collegerial system of tertiary education. It has a variable number of accredited faculties and courses ranging from courses in Law, Medicine, Engineering and the Arts and Social Sciences. It presently has an enrollment of about 7000 students and is presently supervised by the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Eghosa Osaghae. The University has in its few years of existence recorded several land mark achievements including being the first private university to produce Medical Doctors.[1] It is also on record that in 2006, a student of the young Igbinedion University, Mr Sunday Damilola Olawuyi obtained a First Class Honours degree in the highly competitive Nigerian Bar examinations, thereby also standing out as the only private University in Nigeria to have achieved that feat
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RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY
Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) is a University in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The University has staff strength of 3,000 and a student population of 17,000.
History
RSUST is the first Technological University in Nigeria and was established in 1980 from the Rivers State College of Science and Technology, itself established in 1972. It was the first university to be situated within the Niger Delta region.
Faculties and courses
RSUST has seven faculties: Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering, Law, Management Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Technical & Science Education and Sciences.
It is the only university in Nigeria that offers degree programs in Marine Engineering and Secretarial Administration.
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History
RSUST is the first Technological University in Nigeria and was established in 1980 from the Rivers State College of Science and Technology, itself established in 1972. It was the first university to be situated within the Niger Delta region.
Faculties and courses
RSUST has seven faculties: Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering, Law, Management Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Technical & Science Education and Sciences.
It is the only university in Nigeria that offers degree programs in Marine Engineering and Secretarial Administration.
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BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
Babcock University is a private Nigerian university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nigeria. The university is located equidistant between Ibadan and Lagos. Enrollment was 4,978 as of September 2007.
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History
Babcock University institution was named after American missionary David C. Babcock, who pioneered the Seventh-day Adventist Church's work in Nigeria in 1914. It is situated in Ilisan-Remo in Ogun State, Nigeria.
The University subsumed the Adventist College of West Africa (ACWA) established in 1959 but whose name changed in 1975 to Adventist Seminary of West Africa (ASWA). The University was officially chartered on April 20, 1999.
Board of Trustees & University Council
Chancellor & Chair of Proprietors' Council: Luka T. Daniel, M.A
Pro-Chancellor & Chair of the Board: Gideon C. Nwaogwugwu, M.A.
Vice Chair of the Board: Joseph A. Ola, DMin
Administration
President/Vice Chancellor: Prof. J.A. Kayode Makinde, Ph.D.
Snr. Vice President, Academic: Prof. Chimezie A. Omeonu, Ph.D.
Snr. Vice President, Management Services: Prof. David O. Babalola, Ph.D.
Vice President, Enrolment & Records (Registrar) Mr. Shem Magaji, M.Ed.
Vice President, Finance (Bursar) Mr. Luke N. Onuoha, MBA, FCA
Vice President, Development & Strategy: Mr. Olukunle Iyanda, MSc., ACA
Vice President, Students Services: Dr. Janet O. Ola, Ed.D.
Vice President, Library & Information Resources:Mr. Vincent E. Unegbu, MLS
University Chaplain, Spiritual Development: Dr. Israel B. Olaore, Ph.D.
Basic Statistics
Established: 1959 (As Adventist College of West Africa)
Initial Enrolment: 7 Students
Government Accreditation: 1999
Current Enrolment: 4,978 Students (September 2007)
Degrees Awarded: B.A., B.Sc., BIRM, BILD., MA., MEd., MSc., MPM., MPhil, PhD.
Residence Halls
Male
Welch Hall - Male
New Male Hall - Male (750 beds)
Premium Male - Male (500 Deluxe beds)
Adeleke Hall - Male
Winslow Hall - Male (104 Beds)
Iperu Chalets - Male
Female
White Hall - Female
New Female Hall - Female (750 beds)
Premium Female - Female (500 Deluxe beds)
Nyberg Hall - Female (228 Beds)
Ogden Hall - Female
Iperu Hall - Female
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History
Babcock University institution was named after American missionary David C. Babcock, who pioneered the Seventh-day Adventist Church's work in Nigeria in 1914. It is situated in Ilisan-Remo in Ogun State, Nigeria.
The University subsumed the Adventist College of West Africa (ACWA) established in 1959 but whose name changed in 1975 to Adventist Seminary of West Africa (ASWA). The University was officially chartered on April 20, 1999.
Board of Trustees & University Council
Chancellor & Chair of Proprietors' Council: Luka T. Daniel, M.A
Pro-Chancellor & Chair of the Board: Gideon C. Nwaogwugwu, M.A.
Vice Chair of the Board: Joseph A. Ola, DMin
Administration
President/Vice Chancellor: Prof. J.A. Kayode Makinde, Ph.D.
Snr. Vice President, Academic: Prof. Chimezie A. Omeonu, Ph.D.
Snr. Vice President, Management Services: Prof. David O. Babalola, Ph.D.
Vice President, Enrolment & Records (Registrar) Mr. Shem Magaji, M.Ed.
Vice President, Finance (Bursar) Mr. Luke N. Onuoha, MBA, FCA
Vice President, Development & Strategy: Mr. Olukunle Iyanda, MSc., ACA
Vice President, Students Services: Dr. Janet O. Ola, Ed.D.
Vice President, Library & Information Resources:Mr. Vincent E. Unegbu, MLS
University Chaplain, Spiritual Development: Dr. Israel B. Olaore, Ph.D.
Basic Statistics
Established: 1959 (As Adventist College of West Africa)
Initial Enrolment: 7 Students
Government Accreditation: 1999
Current Enrolment: 4,978 Students (September 2007)
Degrees Awarded: B.A., B.Sc., BIRM, BILD., MA., MEd., MSc., MPM., MPhil, PhD.
Residence Halls
Male
Welch Hall - Male
New Male Hall - Male (750 beds)
Premium Male - Male (500 Deluxe beds)
Adeleke Hall - Male
Winslow Hall - Male (104 Beds)
Iperu Chalets - Male
Female
White Hall - Female
New Female Hall - Female (750 beds)
Premium Female - Female (500 Deluxe beds)
Nyberg Hall - Female (228 Beds)
Ogden Hall - Female
Iperu Hall - Female
COVENANT UNIVERSITY
Covenant University is a private university in Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. It was founded in 2002 by the Winners' Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide), and the chancellor, David Oyedepo, is also the President and founding Bishop of the Winners' Chapel. It is a Christian institution and it strictly governed by the principles of Christ. The vision of the Founding Bishop as reflected in the motto of the institution is "to raise a new generation of leaders". The educational philosophy of the institution is to cause a revolution in the educational system of Nigeria, Africa and indeed the World. It is situated within the premises of Cannanland; the official Headquarters of the Living Faith Church, and it is know as Hebron-the Birth Place of Kings and Queens
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The university has three colleges housing over 20 departments. The colleges are the College of Business and Social Sciences, the College of Human Development, and the College of Science and Technology. The Vice-Chancellor is Professor Aize Obayan, the Registrar is Pastor Rotimi Daniel and the Chaplain is Pastor Obong Ntia.
As of 2007, the university has about 7,000 students from different countries. Its graduates are called "Eagles".
Recently, the school was forced by Nigerian education authorities and other human rights groups to stop compulsory HIV and pregnancy tests for all its graduating students before they are allowed to graduate.
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The university has three colleges housing over 20 departments. The colleges are the College of Business and Social Sciences, the College of Human Development, and the College of Science and Technology. The Vice-Chancellor is Professor Aize Obayan, the Registrar is Pastor Rotimi Daniel and the Chaplain is Pastor Obong Ntia.
As of 2007, the university has about 7,000 students from different countries. Its graduates are called "Eagles".
Recently, the school was forced by Nigerian education authorities and other human rights groups to stop compulsory HIV and pregnancy tests for all its graduating students before they are allowed to graduate.
NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY
Following the split of the former Anambra State into two States -Anambra and Enugu States, the Awka and Nnewi campuses of the former Anambra State University of Technology, were by the Anambra State Edict No 5 of November 26, 1991 constituted into Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The Edict upheld Awka and Nnewi as campuses of the University.
The University was taken over by the Federal Government with effect from September 1,(1992, by Decree No 34 of July 15, 1992).
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The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onotsha, after whom the Univeristy is named was in the vanguard of the fight against colonialism in Africa and was the doyen of the independence struggle in Nigeria. Believing in the use of education as a veritable tool in the liberation struggle and in the enthronement of the dignity of man. He founded the first autonomous Nigerian University. His choice of a name for that University - the University of Nigeria- is an eloquent testimony to his belief in and commitment to Nigerian unity.
LOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY
The main campus of the University is located at Awka sited thirty-five kilometers to the South -West of Awka and the second campus is at Nnewi.
STUDENT'S POPULATION
The University has a population of twenty-four thousand seven hundred and six (24,706) for the full-time and twelve thousand, four hundred and seventy-six (12,476)students for the part-time programmes during the 2004/2005 academic year.
MISSION STATEMENT
Nnamdi Azikiwe University is founded on the philosophy that knowledge should be propagated and disseminated to individuals without let or hindrance. Teaching and Research would be anchored on the needs of the immediate environment and the Nigerian society generally. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, after whom the University is named, stands out clearly in the history of University education in Nigeria and Africa in general. In the discharge of its mission, the University shall live up to the ideals of this renowned statesman, by making University education pragmatic, and using it to forge unity among the various communities in Nigeria.
The mission of the University is, thus, to use teaching, research and public service to solve societal problems. In the process of learning, students would be oriented to use education in the solution of practical problems confronting them and the Nigerian society. It is hoped that the University’s graduates will be able to use their knowledge to lift the society off its problem in Science, e.g. technological backwardness, poor health delivery services, agricultural under production, environmental degradation, misapplication and/or under utilization of human and material resources, cultural disorientation etc.
To achieve these purposes and harness the large pool of qualified secondary school graduands and high caliber manpower in the environment of the University, the University will be conventional in scope and outlook covering wide areas of learning and research.
In totality, the mission of the University is to produce graduates who shall possess the following attributes:
a wide and ordered knowledge in a discipline area;
the ability to reason logically;Dedication
the ability to communicate clearly in speech and writing with confidence and fluency;
numeracy and computer literacy;
accepted moral values as honesty, humility, truthfulness, and high ethical standards in personal and professional life;
acceptance of obligations and responsibilities;
the desire for life-long education and creativity;
self confidence and result-oriented ability.
OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Specifically, the Decree establishing the University provides for the underlisted objects:
to encourage the advancement of all branches of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction, an opportunity of acquiring higher and liberal education;
to provide courses of instruction and other facilities for the pursuit of learning in all its branches and to make these facilities available on proper terms to such persons as are equipped to benefit from them;
Summary: These strategies for success will emphasize our desire for high quality education, wise investment of University resources, result oriented and problem solving curricula. These are mediated through the reorientation of staff attitude to effect pragmatic teaching and development, output mix, research, good governance and management.
Put together, the Mission Statement and Decree No. 34 of 1992 identify the Operational Objectives of the University. Our strategies for their success will be clearly tied to our ability to plan expertly and manage the activities of the University based on extensive internal consultations and consensus building with staff and students through management audit and brain storming sessions. Already many of these are in place and are viable. For instance Academic Planning and Physical Planning Units, Central University Monitoring Committee (which monitors the commitment of staff and students to the objectives of the Decree as well as the tenets of the University’s motto) are functioning effectively. Furthermore, the adoption of Management Information System (MIS) to manage change posed by leadership challenges in appropriate socio-economic endeavours and well planned business initiatives will be vigorously pursued.
OUR MOTTO
The motto of the University is “Discipline, Self Reliance and Excellence.” The rationale for this motto is that discipline is a pre-requisite condition for the achievement of any goal. Discipline embodies endurance, continuity and determination to start afresh when previous efforts fail.
It is believed that discipline will give rise to self reliance, which entails confidence in one’s self and abilities. The amalgam of a disciplined mind with self confidence will yield excellence.
The University was taken over by the Federal Government with effect from September 1,(1992, by Decree No 34 of July 15, 1992).
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The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onotsha, after whom the Univeristy is named was in the vanguard of the fight against colonialism in Africa and was the doyen of the independence struggle in Nigeria. Believing in the use of education as a veritable tool in the liberation struggle and in the enthronement of the dignity of man. He founded the first autonomous Nigerian University. His choice of a name for that University - the University of Nigeria- is an eloquent testimony to his belief in and commitment to Nigerian unity.
LOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY
The main campus of the University is located at Awka sited thirty-five kilometers to the South -West of Awka and the second campus is at Nnewi.
STUDENT'S POPULATION
The University has a population of twenty-four thousand seven hundred and six (24,706) for the full-time and twelve thousand, four hundred and seventy-six (12,476)students for the part-time programmes during the 2004/2005 academic year.
MISSION STATEMENT
Nnamdi Azikiwe University is founded on the philosophy that knowledge should be propagated and disseminated to individuals without let or hindrance. Teaching and Research would be anchored on the needs of the immediate environment and the Nigerian society generally. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, after whom the University is named, stands out clearly in the history of University education in Nigeria and Africa in general. In the discharge of its mission, the University shall live up to the ideals of this renowned statesman, by making University education pragmatic, and using it to forge unity among the various communities in Nigeria.
The mission of the University is, thus, to use teaching, research and public service to solve societal problems. In the process of learning, students would be oriented to use education in the solution of practical problems confronting them and the Nigerian society. It is hoped that the University’s graduates will be able to use their knowledge to lift the society off its problem in Science, e.g. technological backwardness, poor health delivery services, agricultural under production, environmental degradation, misapplication and/or under utilization of human and material resources, cultural disorientation etc.
To achieve these purposes and harness the large pool of qualified secondary school graduands and high caliber manpower in the environment of the University, the University will be conventional in scope and outlook covering wide areas of learning and research.
In totality, the mission of the University is to produce graduates who shall possess the following attributes:
a wide and ordered knowledge in a discipline area;
the ability to reason logically;Dedication
the ability to communicate clearly in speech and writing with confidence and fluency;
numeracy and computer literacy;
accepted moral values as honesty, humility, truthfulness, and high ethical standards in personal and professional life;
acceptance of obligations and responsibilities;
the desire for life-long education and creativity;
self confidence and result-oriented ability.
OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Specifically, the Decree establishing the University provides for the underlisted objects:
to encourage the advancement of all branches of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction, an opportunity of acquiring higher and liberal education;
to provide courses of instruction and other facilities for the pursuit of learning in all its branches and to make these facilities available on proper terms to such persons as are equipped to benefit from them;
Summary: These strategies for success will emphasize our desire for high quality education, wise investment of University resources, result oriented and problem solving curricula. These are mediated through the reorientation of staff attitude to effect pragmatic teaching and development, output mix, research, good governance and management.
Put together, the Mission Statement and Decree No. 34 of 1992 identify the Operational Objectives of the University. Our strategies for their success will be clearly tied to our ability to plan expertly and manage the activities of the University based on extensive internal consultations and consensus building with staff and students through management audit and brain storming sessions. Already many of these are in place and are viable. For instance Academic Planning and Physical Planning Units, Central University Monitoring Committee (which monitors the commitment of staff and students to the objectives of the Decree as well as the tenets of the University’s motto) are functioning effectively. Furthermore, the adoption of Management Information System (MIS) to manage change posed by leadership challenges in appropriate socio-economic endeavours and well planned business initiatives will be vigorously pursued.
OUR MOTTO
The motto of the University is “Discipline, Self Reliance and Excellence.” The rationale for this motto is that discipline is a pre-requisite condition for the achievement of any goal. Discipline embodies endurance, continuity and determination to start afresh when previous efforts fail.
It is believed that discipline will give rise to self reliance, which entails confidence in one’s self and abilities. The amalgam of a disciplined mind with self confidence will yield excellence.
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA.
The Federal University of Technology, Minna is a Federal Government owned University in Nigeria. It was established on 1st February, 1983. The objective for its establishment is to give effect to the Nation’s drive for the much-needed self-reliance in Science, Engineering and especially Technology. It is a specialized University of Technology.
The pioneer Vice-Chancellor was Professor J.O. Ndagi who served from 1983 to 1990. He was succeeded by Professor S.O. Adeyemi from 1990 and 1994. Between 1994 and 1997 Professor I.H. Umar served as Sole Administrator. Professor S.A. Garba was briefly acting Vice-Chancellor between 26 th June and 6th August, 1997. On 7th August, 1997 Prof. M.A. Daniyan became the third substantive Vice Chancellor of the University till 6th August, 2002. Prof. J.O. Adeniyi served from 7th August to 2nd October, 2002 as acting Vice Chancellor. The current Vice-Chancellor Prof. H. Tukur Sa’ad was appointed on 3rd October, 2002.
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The pioneer Registrar was late Dr. B.P. Sawa who served from 1983 to 1986. Dr Bawa Salka was acting Registrar between 1986 and 1988. Then Mrs. L.S.J. Ahmed became the Registrar of the University between 1988 and 1993. She was succeeded by Alhaji U.A. Sadiq who served as the Registrar from October, 1998 - 2003, having acted in that position since 1993. The current Acting Registrar Mallam M.D. Usman was appointed on 1st October, 2003.
At inception, the University acquired on a permanent basis, the facilities of the former Government Teachers' College Bosso which now serves as the Bosso Campus of the University. It has undergone a tremendous. face-lift and wears a beautiful outlook befitting a modern University. The University acquired 10,650 hectares of land at Gidan-Kwano along the Minna - Kataeregi - Bida Road as its permanent site, to carter for the necessary inevitable expansion envisaged.
On Tuesday, June, 2nd 1992 the former President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCFR, fss, mni (rtd), performed the Sod Turning Ceremony to mark the commencement of projects on the main campus site. And since then work had started in earnest for the physical development of the Main Campus which in phase I consists of the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (SAAT), School of Environmental Technology (SET), School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET) Buildings, Students Hostels, Students Center, University Library, Senate Building, Staff houses, Computer Centre as well as the Industrial Development Centre.
The completion of students’ hostels, some staff houses, SET and SEET buildings
facilitated the commencement of full academic activities in the Main Campus at the beginning of the 2004/2005 academic session. Meanwhile, SAAT is temporarily occupying a part of the SEET Complex pending the completion of its building.
Since its inception, the University has graduated students, whose market value is being adjudged very satisfactory and are in high demand both in government and industry, servicing the technological needs of the nation. The figure showed a remarkable growth rate from 22 graduates in 1990, to 662 in 1998 and total students enrolments are now over 13,000 with corresponding academic staff strength of 504.
The University has recorded quite a number of academic achievements which, include the design and fabrication of a number of highly valuable items of socio-economic importance such as the Solar air heater, Motor-car crankshaft, Gearing system for crane hoist drives, Rice de-stoning machine, Maize sheller, Multi-purpose grinder, Irrigation models, Poultry feeder amongst a host of other creative innovations. It is equally gratifying to note that the University has gained recognition nationwide as a Centre for Excellence in Computer Science having been so designated by the National Universities Commission. In pursuit of this, the University obtained Internet connectivity towards the end of 1998, acquired its VSAT facility in 2003, and by 2005/2006 academic session students’ registration was conducted on-line. Now the members of the University Community can easily access information the World over on the super highway.
In pursuance of academic excellence in solving human problems, Professor S.A. Garba of the Department of Microbiology led a team of researchers in the development and production of typhoid fever vaccines. This project is sponsored by the Unipetrol Nigeria Plc. The team has been able to develop and produce typhoid fever vaccines. And having completed the testing on mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys, the Vaccine was tested on humans with amazing success. The new vaccine would soon b e made available to the global market after further due process.
For the purpose of generating internal revenue to supplement government funds the University established the FUTMIN CONSULT, a consultancy outfit. The outfit has continued to make some positive impact to justify its establishment. In this regard, it has undertaken the following consultancy services among others: Gurara Inter Basin Water Transfer. NNDC/UNIDO Project. EEC/FGN Middle-Belt Project, Niger State Ecological Mapping for wheat growing, ADB/ONDO State Ecological Zone Mapping, Mando Fish Farm and TRANSCORP-HILTON Hotel Sewage Design, Environmental Impact assessment of Kagara Dam for the Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority (UNRBDA). FUTMIN CONSULT is also a consultant to INEC on its Computerization and Telecommunication Programme, and to UBE on its programmes in Niger and Kogi States. Other consultancy services recently carried out by the FUTMIN CONSULT include the Second National Fadama Development Project (Fadama II) in Niger State and the Niger State Agroclimatological zones and Land use mapping into crop zones.
In August 2003 the University Council formalized the Centre for Climate Change and Freshwater Resources (CCCFR) as one of three newly established Centres. The others are Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development (CHSUD) and Centre for Remedial and Extra-mural Studies (CRES). The CCCFR in collaboration with environmentalists in the six Geopolitical Zones of Nigeria have just concluded a N105 million National Agro-Climatic Atlas Project to combat effects of climate change-induced natural disaster in Nigeria sponsored by the Ecological Fund Office of the Presidency. The second phase of the project is awaiting Federal Executive Council’s approval. Aart from this project, the Centre is now into collaborative climate change studies with University of Cape Town, South Africa, while its scientists continue as consulting experts with United Nations Agencies like UNFCCC, WMO, UNEP, UNDP, FAO, UNESCO etc. The Centre is also involved in the university’s Sustainable Livelihood initiative in the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2015) and is about to commence a new professional programme in Climate Change Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction as a prelude to a programme in Disaster Early Warning.
The Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development (CHSUD) which was established by the University in collaboration with the UN-Habitat is to assist in settlements, Urban Governance and Urban Development. Since then, CHSUD has focused attention on building capacity at all levels of government, for effective Urban Environmental Management such as establishment of Environmental Management Information System, Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma Programmes in Public-Private Partnership for Urban Environment. With the support of the Collaborative Learning Course established by a partnership of UNDP and Yale University, U.S.A. CHSUD is currently carrying out consultancy service for UN-Habitat, in four Nigerian cities (Ibadan, Enugu, Kano and Karu) on the use of implementation instruments for sustainable cities programme. In its effort to contribute to the development of manpower for urban environmental management in Nigeria, CHSUD is in the process of designing post-graduate courses (M.Sc. and Ph.D) in City Planning and Urban Design, with the support of UN-Habitat.
The Centre for Remedial and Extra-Mural Studies (CRES) is responsible for coordination of all academic programmes not funded by the National Universities Commission (NUC). Remedial course is a one-year terminal programme specifically designed to equip candidates from catchment areas with emphasis on Niger State, who are deficient in some basic science subjects and are unable to meet UME admission requirements. Admission into this programme is also extended to other thirty-six states of the federation and FCT. On successful completion of Remedial programme, students secure admission into the various degree programmes run by the University. Approval has also been given to the Centre to commence Diploma and Certificate programmes.
More recently in August 2006, the Centre for Research and Development in Information Technology (CREDIT) was established. This latest Centre is not only to make Federal University of Technology, Minna, ICT compliant but also to launch the University into the global market of certified software development.
In the area of domestic and foreign linkages and collaboration, the Management of the University recently created two new directorates to cater for this important function of networking. These are the Directorate of Affiliation and Local Linkages (ALL) and the Directorate of Collaboration and External Linkages (CEL).
The University has established a linkage programme with the University of Namibia and the University of Scienec and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. The Unversity has also signed a memorandum of understanding with The German Agency for Technical Coorperation (GTZ) and the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP).Nigeria. It is also a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Association of African Universities. It has also honoured some Distinguished Gentlemen and Achievers namely: Alhaji (Dr) Shehu Idris, CFR, the Emir of Zazzau; Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Dasuki. CFR, the former Sultan of Sokoto, late Alhaji (Dr) Abdulrahman Mora and Dr. Sam Nujoma, the former President of the Republic of Namibia, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda (rtd), the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings (rtd), the former President of the Republic of Ghana, Prof. Jonathan Othman Ndagi, pioneer Vice Chancellor, of the University and Mr. Raphael O.A. Shonekan, the pioneer Principal, Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom. Others include, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the Executive Governor of Osun State, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu the Sadauna Minna and Mr Alioune Badiane of the UN Habitat, Nairobi – Kenya.
In recognition of excellence in areas of Science and Technology, the University has been attracting high calibre and eminent scholars to its fold. In addition, most of its academic programmes have full accreditation and the rest interim accreditation by the recent exercises conducted by relevant professional bodies and the NUC. The only programme that was denied accreditation during the recent (November, 2005) NUC accreditation exercise was a new programme started in 2002 which is yet to mature for accreditation.
The pioneer Vice-Chancellor was Professor J.O. Ndagi who served from 1983 to 1990. He was succeeded by Professor S.O. Adeyemi from 1990 and 1994. Between 1994 and 1997 Professor I.H. Umar served as Sole Administrator. Professor S.A. Garba was briefly acting Vice-Chancellor between 26 th June and 6th August, 1997. On 7th August, 1997 Prof. M.A. Daniyan became the third substantive Vice Chancellor of the University till 6th August, 2002. Prof. J.O. Adeniyi served from 7th August to 2nd October, 2002 as acting Vice Chancellor. The current Vice-Chancellor Prof. H. Tukur Sa’ad was appointed on 3rd October, 2002.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
The pioneer Registrar was late Dr. B.P. Sawa who served from 1983 to 1986. Dr Bawa Salka was acting Registrar between 1986 and 1988. Then Mrs. L.S.J. Ahmed became the Registrar of the University between 1988 and 1993. She was succeeded by Alhaji U.A. Sadiq who served as the Registrar from October, 1998 - 2003, having acted in that position since 1993. The current Acting Registrar Mallam M.D. Usman was appointed on 1st October, 2003.
At inception, the University acquired on a permanent basis, the facilities of the former Government Teachers' College Bosso which now serves as the Bosso Campus of the University. It has undergone a tremendous. face-lift and wears a beautiful outlook befitting a modern University. The University acquired 10,650 hectares of land at Gidan-Kwano along the Minna - Kataeregi - Bida Road as its permanent site, to carter for the necessary inevitable expansion envisaged.
On Tuesday, June, 2nd 1992 the former President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCFR, fss, mni (rtd), performed the Sod Turning Ceremony to mark the commencement of projects on the main campus site. And since then work had started in earnest for the physical development of the Main Campus which in phase I consists of the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (SAAT), School of Environmental Technology (SET), School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET) Buildings, Students Hostels, Students Center, University Library, Senate Building, Staff houses, Computer Centre as well as the Industrial Development Centre.
The completion of students’ hostels, some staff houses, SET and SEET buildings
facilitated the commencement of full academic activities in the Main Campus at the beginning of the 2004/2005 academic session. Meanwhile, SAAT is temporarily occupying a part of the SEET Complex pending the completion of its building.
Since its inception, the University has graduated students, whose market value is being adjudged very satisfactory and are in high demand both in government and industry, servicing the technological needs of the nation. The figure showed a remarkable growth rate from 22 graduates in 1990, to 662 in 1998 and total students enrolments are now over 13,000 with corresponding academic staff strength of 504.
The University has recorded quite a number of academic achievements which, include the design and fabrication of a number of highly valuable items of socio-economic importance such as the Solar air heater, Motor-car crankshaft, Gearing system for crane hoist drives, Rice de-stoning machine, Maize sheller, Multi-purpose grinder, Irrigation models, Poultry feeder amongst a host of other creative innovations. It is equally gratifying to note that the University has gained recognition nationwide as a Centre for Excellence in Computer Science having been so designated by the National Universities Commission. In pursuit of this, the University obtained Internet connectivity towards the end of 1998, acquired its VSAT facility in 2003, and by 2005/2006 academic session students’ registration was conducted on-line. Now the members of the University Community can easily access information the World over on the super highway.
In pursuance of academic excellence in solving human problems, Professor S.A. Garba of the Department of Microbiology led a team of researchers in the development and production of typhoid fever vaccines. This project is sponsored by the Unipetrol Nigeria Plc. The team has been able to develop and produce typhoid fever vaccines. And having completed the testing on mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys, the Vaccine was tested on humans with amazing success. The new vaccine would soon b e made available to the global market after further due process.
For the purpose of generating internal revenue to supplement government funds the University established the FUTMIN CONSULT, a consultancy outfit. The outfit has continued to make some positive impact to justify its establishment. In this regard, it has undertaken the following consultancy services among others: Gurara Inter Basin Water Transfer. NNDC/UNIDO Project. EEC/FGN Middle-Belt Project, Niger State Ecological Mapping for wheat growing, ADB/ONDO State Ecological Zone Mapping, Mando Fish Farm and TRANSCORP-HILTON Hotel Sewage Design, Environmental Impact assessment of Kagara Dam for the Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority (UNRBDA). FUTMIN CONSULT is also a consultant to INEC on its Computerization and Telecommunication Programme, and to UBE on its programmes in Niger and Kogi States. Other consultancy services recently carried out by the FUTMIN CONSULT include the Second National Fadama Development Project (Fadama II) in Niger State and the Niger State Agroclimatological zones and Land use mapping into crop zones.
In August 2003 the University Council formalized the Centre for Climate Change and Freshwater Resources (CCCFR) as one of three newly established Centres. The others are Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development (CHSUD) and Centre for Remedial and Extra-mural Studies (CRES). The CCCFR in collaboration with environmentalists in the six Geopolitical Zones of Nigeria have just concluded a N105 million National Agro-Climatic Atlas Project to combat effects of climate change-induced natural disaster in Nigeria sponsored by the Ecological Fund Office of the Presidency. The second phase of the project is awaiting Federal Executive Council’s approval. Aart from this project, the Centre is now into collaborative climate change studies with University of Cape Town, South Africa, while its scientists continue as consulting experts with United Nations Agencies like UNFCCC, WMO, UNEP, UNDP, FAO, UNESCO etc. The Centre is also involved in the university’s Sustainable Livelihood initiative in the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2015) and is about to commence a new professional programme in Climate Change Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction as a prelude to a programme in Disaster Early Warning.
The Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development (CHSUD) which was established by the University in collaboration with the UN-Habitat is to assist in settlements, Urban Governance and Urban Development. Since then, CHSUD has focused attention on building capacity at all levels of government, for effective Urban Environmental Management such as establishment of Environmental Management Information System, Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma Programmes in Public-Private Partnership for Urban Environment. With the support of the Collaborative Learning Course established by a partnership of UNDP and Yale University, U.S.A. CHSUD is currently carrying out consultancy service for UN-Habitat, in four Nigerian cities (Ibadan, Enugu, Kano and Karu) on the use of implementation instruments for sustainable cities programme. In its effort to contribute to the development of manpower for urban environmental management in Nigeria, CHSUD is in the process of designing post-graduate courses (M.Sc. and Ph.D) in City Planning and Urban Design, with the support of UN-Habitat.
The Centre for Remedial and Extra-Mural Studies (CRES) is responsible for coordination of all academic programmes not funded by the National Universities Commission (NUC). Remedial course is a one-year terminal programme specifically designed to equip candidates from catchment areas with emphasis on Niger State, who are deficient in some basic science subjects and are unable to meet UME admission requirements. Admission into this programme is also extended to other thirty-six states of the federation and FCT. On successful completion of Remedial programme, students secure admission into the various degree programmes run by the University. Approval has also been given to the Centre to commence Diploma and Certificate programmes.
More recently in August 2006, the Centre for Research and Development in Information Technology (CREDIT) was established. This latest Centre is not only to make Federal University of Technology, Minna, ICT compliant but also to launch the University into the global market of certified software development.
In the area of domestic and foreign linkages and collaboration, the Management of the University recently created two new directorates to cater for this important function of networking. These are the Directorate of Affiliation and Local Linkages (ALL) and the Directorate of Collaboration and External Linkages (CEL).
The University has established a linkage programme with the University of Namibia and the University of Scienec and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. The Unversity has also signed a memorandum of understanding with The German Agency for Technical Coorperation (GTZ) and the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP).Nigeria. It is also a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Association of African Universities. It has also honoured some Distinguished Gentlemen and Achievers namely: Alhaji (Dr) Shehu Idris, CFR, the Emir of Zazzau; Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Dasuki. CFR, the former Sultan of Sokoto, late Alhaji (Dr) Abdulrahman Mora and Dr. Sam Nujoma, the former President of the Republic of Namibia, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda (rtd), the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings (rtd), the former President of the Republic of Ghana, Prof. Jonathan Othman Ndagi, pioneer Vice Chancellor, of the University and Mr. Raphael O.A. Shonekan, the pioneer Principal, Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom. Others include, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the Executive Governor of Osun State, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu the Sadauna Minna and Mr Alioune Badiane of the UN Habitat, Nairobi – Kenya.
In recognition of excellence in areas of Science and Technology, the University has been attracting high calibre and eminent scholars to its fold. In addition, most of its academic programmes have full accreditation and the rest interim accreditation by the recent exercises conducted by relevant professional bodies and the NUC. The only programme that was denied accreditation during the recent (November, 2005) NUC accreditation exercise was a new programme started in 2002 which is yet to mature for accreditation.
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY YOLA
ADMISSIONS
The University offers admission into her undergraduate, postgraduate and consultancy programs including diploma and certificate programs, distance learning and sandwich programs.
The University advertises all her programmes into which students can be admitted in UME/DE JAMB brochures as well as on national dailies, TVs and Radio stations, her Notice Boards and of course, on their website.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
For more information about domestic and international admission to any of our programs follow the links below.
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADMISSIONS
Predegree Admissions
For those who for one reason or the other could not gain admission to the University through JAMB and/or have one deficiency or the other in the sciences or management, the Pre-degree Science and Management Programme help prepare students preparatory to their entry to the five year degree programmes of the University
Certificate and Diploma Admissions
For those interested in a certificate or diploma (including advanced diploma) at FUTY, click here to see information and resources of specific courses of interest run by the Consultancy Unit of the University.
Undergraduate Admissions
Learn more about our exciting bachelor's degree programs across all disciplines, from pure and applied sciences, technology and science education, environmental sciences, engineering and engineering technology, agriculture and agricultural technology, and management and information technology. Application information and deadlines are provided.
Graduate and Professional Admissions
Interested in a graduate education at FUTY? Learn more about our exceptional programs at the master's and doctoral level in the school of postgraduate studies.
Sandwich Admissions
For all science and mathematics teachers for Secondary Schools and Colleges interested in being trained to become highly skilled, professionally competent and intellectually sound, then click here to see more information, resources detailing the process of producing these quality teachers, as offered by our Sandwich Unit.
Distance Education Admissions
Short on time or tied up with office work? Innovative continuing education and part-time study programs offer today's students the flexibility they demand, including summer courses and programs outside Nigeria.
International Students and Scholars
If you live outside Nigeria, click here to see information and resources you need to help finance your education at FUTY.
DISCOVER ACADEMICS
At Federal University of Technology, Yola, we prepare you to make a difference in the world. Here, teaching means giving students the chance to do far more than listen. It means providing the opportunity to become truly involved with great thinkers and to reap the benefits of this interaction.
You will study with highly accomplished faculty who are dedicated to their roles as educators and who often incorporate their scholarly or professional pursuits from outside the classroom into exciting teaching material. Your education will come not just from the time you spend in the classroom, but from meeting with your professors during office hours, by learning from your peers, and from professional internships and opportunities for international study.
FUTY is a complex community. It continuously integrates disparate parts into a greater whole. It is a federal university that contributes to the public good. As a major research institution, FUTY fosters creativity and innovation, but teaching is still its most important function.
ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE
Overview
The Alumni Relations Office was established in 2007 by Prof. A.Y. Ribadu, who on assumption of office as the Vice Chancellor of FUT Yola, instituted the first ever Alumni Relations Office, and appointed Mr. Franklyn Chukwunonso as the Ag. Coordinator, Alumni Relations Office.
The Ag. Alumni Relations Officer (Ag. ARO) on inception commenced an aggressive awareness campaign and strategic plan of action on enlightening and collating data of all FUTY Alumni.
Brief History
On September 6 2008, an inaugural meeting of the FUTY Alumni Association was held at the FUTY Multipurpose Hall and was organized and sponsored by the University through the Office of the Vice Chancellor, FUTY Alumni Relations Office. Protem officers of the Association were elected with mandate to organize and ensure a formidable Alumni Association in the headquarters and also draft a constitution to be presented to the General Assembly of the FUTY Alumni Association within six months of inauguration by which time a fresh election is to be conducted. The Executive Officers elected were:
1. Mr. Franklyn Chukwunonso President (Ag. ARO)
2. Mr. Lawrence P. Ganchok Secretary
3. Mr. Yusuf Chidama Public Relations Officer
4. Dr. Sunday Osamaehon Director of Socials
5. Mr. Kabiru Bello Njidda Financial Secretary
The Protem EXCO since then have held a series of meetings finally resulting in the decision to organize a FUTY Alumni Dinner Night on the 1st of October 2008, in line with its mandate of sensitizing and creating awareness about the alma mata. This date was strategic as it was not only the Nigerian National Independence day, but also within the Sallah Celebration and it was believed that many FUTY Alumni will be home for the long holiday period to attend the Dinner Night. Since the EXCO was starting from a zero financial level, it decided to transform itself into the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the dinner night. The committee came up with a budget of three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N350,000.00) only, and tasked itself along with some donations in the sum of fifty thousand naira from one of its Alumnus, the CEO of Kassido Communications Limited.
Afterwards, the Protem Officers embarked on an elaborate awareness campaign to reach out to all alumni members by paying courtesy calls on all the media houses in Yola (Fombina FM Radio, Radio Gotel, Adamawa Television ATV and Nigeria Television Authority NTA,) to intimate them and also invite them to the Dinner Night. To make the event a grand one, the Committee embarked on the printing of invitation letters, banners, T-shirts, face caps, call cards, alumni letter headed paper, stickers and posters. Adverts were also placed on radio and television stations. The Committee tasked its members to bring in names, emails and mobile numbers of at least 50 known alumni members for direct contact by sms and emails. The names were collated and the text messages were sent out to all.
On 26th March 2009, the Protem Officers, in keeping with their six (6) months mandate called for an Annual General Meeting, during which the following agenda was to be deliberated:
• Presentation and Adoption of FUTY Alumni National Constitution by the congress, subject to review.
• Election of Electoral Committee Members
• Deliberations on Representative of FUTY Alumni in the University Council
• A.O.B.
However, some days before the proposed meeting, it was brought to the Notice of the Ag. ARO that FUTY Alumni Association had officials who were elected some years ago. The meeting was however held but it was decided that another meeting be scheduled for the 28th of March 2009 so as to ascertain to these facts.
On the said day, after much deliberations between the Ag. ARO and the Protem Officers along with the earlier elected officers, it was reached that a meeting between the Ag. ARO and the two camps be scheduled to see how to streamline the two executives in the interest and unity of the Alma Mata.
The alumni of Federal University of Technology, Yola are an important part of the FUTY community and remain a critical resource for the success of our future graduates. Below are links to important resources to keep you informed and involved in the University today.
CAMPUS LIFE
Welcome to campus life at FUTY. Here you can explore all the happenings on campus and gain access to artistic, cultural, and athletic resources as well as pertinent links for student activities.
Student Life
At FUTY, students study under a very relaxed academic environment. Here, you will find ways to get involved in a host of student activities. We know student life at FUTY can get hectic sometimes so here are some resources for activities, places to eat, career services, and much more to help pave your way.
Arts & Culture
Nigeria is a multi cultural and ethnic society and this is inherent in the diverse cultures celebrated at FUTY during students week and/or cultural week. Here you will find a host of cultures and tribes as well as societies and clubs of your interest.
Sports
FUTY holds pride not just in academic excellence but also in physical fitness and extracurricular activities. Like the old saying "... all work without play makes Jack a dull boy," FUTY makes sure you don't have any dull moments. find out all more about this.
Clubs & Societies
Click here to see all of FUTY societies and clubs ranging from academic, social, cultural, ethnic...
Accommodation
Getting accommodation in FUTY at times may be difficult though the University reserves accommodation for special level of students. Find out this and more and how to secure accommodation outside the campus.
Student Union
Meet who is who in the student union government and all the activities and events on their calendar.
Online Portal
Here, you can access all about your University online....from Result Checking to Online Registration, Online Admission Application, Post JAMB Screening, Course Registration, Online Fee Payment, Online Educational Researches, Educational Knowledge Management, Online Library, etc.
The University offers admission into her undergraduate, postgraduate and consultancy programs including diploma and certificate programs, distance learning and sandwich programs.
The University advertises all her programmes into which students can be admitted in UME/DE JAMB brochures as well as on national dailies, TVs and Radio stations, her Notice Boards and of course, on their website.
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For more information about domestic and international admission to any of our programs follow the links below.
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADMISSIONS
Predegree Admissions
For those who for one reason or the other could not gain admission to the University through JAMB and/or have one deficiency or the other in the sciences or management, the Pre-degree Science and Management Programme help prepare students preparatory to their entry to the five year degree programmes of the University
Certificate and Diploma Admissions
For those interested in a certificate or diploma (including advanced diploma) at FUTY, click here to see information and resources of specific courses of interest run by the Consultancy Unit of the University.
Undergraduate Admissions
Learn more about our exciting bachelor's degree programs across all disciplines, from pure and applied sciences, technology and science education, environmental sciences, engineering and engineering technology, agriculture and agricultural technology, and management and information technology. Application information and deadlines are provided.
Graduate and Professional Admissions
Interested in a graduate education at FUTY? Learn more about our exceptional programs at the master's and doctoral level in the school of postgraduate studies.
Sandwich Admissions
For all science and mathematics teachers for Secondary Schools and Colleges interested in being trained to become highly skilled, professionally competent and intellectually sound, then click here to see more information, resources detailing the process of producing these quality teachers, as offered by our Sandwich Unit.
Distance Education Admissions
Short on time or tied up with office work? Innovative continuing education and part-time study programs offer today's students the flexibility they demand, including summer courses and programs outside Nigeria.
International Students and Scholars
If you live outside Nigeria, click here to see information and resources you need to help finance your education at FUTY.
DISCOVER ACADEMICS
At Federal University of Technology, Yola, we prepare you to make a difference in the world. Here, teaching means giving students the chance to do far more than listen. It means providing the opportunity to become truly involved with great thinkers and to reap the benefits of this interaction.
You will study with highly accomplished faculty who are dedicated to their roles as educators and who often incorporate their scholarly or professional pursuits from outside the classroom into exciting teaching material. Your education will come not just from the time you spend in the classroom, but from meeting with your professors during office hours, by learning from your peers, and from professional internships and opportunities for international study.
FUTY is a complex community. It continuously integrates disparate parts into a greater whole. It is a federal university that contributes to the public good. As a major research institution, FUTY fosters creativity and innovation, but teaching is still its most important function.
ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE
Overview
The Alumni Relations Office was established in 2007 by Prof. A.Y. Ribadu, who on assumption of office as the Vice Chancellor of FUT Yola, instituted the first ever Alumni Relations Office, and appointed Mr. Franklyn Chukwunonso as the Ag. Coordinator, Alumni Relations Office.
The Ag. Alumni Relations Officer (Ag. ARO) on inception commenced an aggressive awareness campaign and strategic plan of action on enlightening and collating data of all FUTY Alumni.
Brief History
On September 6 2008, an inaugural meeting of the FUTY Alumni Association was held at the FUTY Multipurpose Hall and was organized and sponsored by the University through the Office of the Vice Chancellor, FUTY Alumni Relations Office. Protem officers of the Association were elected with mandate to organize and ensure a formidable Alumni Association in the headquarters and also draft a constitution to be presented to the General Assembly of the FUTY Alumni Association within six months of inauguration by which time a fresh election is to be conducted. The Executive Officers elected were:
1. Mr. Franklyn Chukwunonso President (Ag. ARO)
2. Mr. Lawrence P. Ganchok Secretary
3. Mr. Yusuf Chidama Public Relations Officer
4. Dr. Sunday Osamaehon Director of Socials
5. Mr. Kabiru Bello Njidda Financial Secretary
The Protem EXCO since then have held a series of meetings finally resulting in the decision to organize a FUTY Alumni Dinner Night on the 1st of October 2008, in line with its mandate of sensitizing and creating awareness about the alma mata. This date was strategic as it was not only the Nigerian National Independence day, but also within the Sallah Celebration and it was believed that many FUTY Alumni will be home for the long holiday period to attend the Dinner Night. Since the EXCO was starting from a zero financial level, it decided to transform itself into the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the dinner night. The committee came up with a budget of three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N350,000.00) only, and tasked itself along with some donations in the sum of fifty thousand naira from one of its Alumnus, the CEO of Kassido Communications Limited.
Afterwards, the Protem Officers embarked on an elaborate awareness campaign to reach out to all alumni members by paying courtesy calls on all the media houses in Yola (Fombina FM Radio, Radio Gotel, Adamawa Television ATV and Nigeria Television Authority NTA,) to intimate them and also invite them to the Dinner Night. To make the event a grand one, the Committee embarked on the printing of invitation letters, banners, T-shirts, face caps, call cards, alumni letter headed paper, stickers and posters. Adverts were also placed on radio and television stations. The Committee tasked its members to bring in names, emails and mobile numbers of at least 50 known alumni members for direct contact by sms and emails. The names were collated and the text messages were sent out to all.
On 26th March 2009, the Protem Officers, in keeping with their six (6) months mandate called for an Annual General Meeting, during which the following agenda was to be deliberated:
• Presentation and Adoption of FUTY Alumni National Constitution by the congress, subject to review.
• Election of Electoral Committee Members
• Deliberations on Representative of FUTY Alumni in the University Council
• A.O.B.
However, some days before the proposed meeting, it was brought to the Notice of the Ag. ARO that FUTY Alumni Association had officials who were elected some years ago. The meeting was however held but it was decided that another meeting be scheduled for the 28th of March 2009 so as to ascertain to these facts.
On the said day, after much deliberations between the Ag. ARO and the Protem Officers along with the earlier elected officers, it was reached that a meeting between the Ag. ARO and the two camps be scheduled to see how to streamline the two executives in the interest and unity of the Alma Mata.
The alumni of Federal University of Technology, Yola are an important part of the FUTY community and remain a critical resource for the success of our future graduates. Below are links to important resources to keep you informed and involved in the University today.
CAMPUS LIFE
Welcome to campus life at FUTY. Here you can explore all the happenings on campus and gain access to artistic, cultural, and athletic resources as well as pertinent links for student activities.
Student Life
At FUTY, students study under a very relaxed academic environment. Here, you will find ways to get involved in a host of student activities. We know student life at FUTY can get hectic sometimes so here are some resources for activities, places to eat, career services, and much more to help pave your way.
Arts & Culture
Nigeria is a multi cultural and ethnic society and this is inherent in the diverse cultures celebrated at FUTY during students week and/or cultural week. Here you will find a host of cultures and tribes as well as societies and clubs of your interest.
Sports
FUTY holds pride not just in academic excellence but also in physical fitness and extracurricular activities. Like the old saying "... all work without play makes Jack a dull boy," FUTY makes sure you don't have any dull moments. find out all more about this.
Clubs & Societies
Click here to see all of FUTY societies and clubs ranging from academic, social, cultural, ethnic...
Accommodation
Getting accommodation in FUTY at times may be difficult though the University reserves accommodation for special level of students. Find out this and more and how to secure accommodation outside the campus.
Student Union
Meet who is who in the student union government and all the activities and events on their calendar.
Online Portal
Here, you can access all about your University online....from Result Checking to Online Registration, Online Admission Application, Post JAMB Screening, Course Registration, Online Fee Payment, Online Educational Researches, Educational Knowledge Management, Online Library, etc.
BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY
Welcome to Benue State University . The University has come a long way. From a student population of 306 and an academic staff strength of 149 at the inception of the University in 1992. Benue State University had a student enrolment of over nineteen thousand in 2006 and an academic staff strength of 429. The numbers have further grown since then.
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This tremendous increase in staff strength and student enrolment can be attributed to handwork and determination of staff and students, and the continuous financial support of the Benue State Government. Concomitantly, our academic programmes have also expanded over the years. We now have seven faculties and a College of Health Sciences. Altogether we have 22 Departments.
Our graduate programmes have also come a long way. From an initial nineteen programmes, we now have fifty graduate academic programmes spread across all the faculties.
The University’s achievements have received ovations all over the country. In 2004, the Vice Chancellor of the University was voted best Vice Chancellor of the Universities and in 2005, the University received Award for best Governing Council of State Universities.
Our graduates have continued to perform credibly well in and outside the country. Many are pursuing or have successfully completed postgraduate programmes within and outside the country.
Out IT Services have continued to expand with the introduction of on-line registration, other services and programmes. The facilities available are currently being upgraded through the provision of bigger bandwidth and other accessories.
Benue State University was established in 1992 as a response to a genuine need by the State Government to provide the essential impetus to economic, cultural, social and vocational development. Although there is a Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi, the Benue State Government decided in favour of a conventional University partly for the reason that the Federal University of Agriculture is so specialized that courses offered are available only to a limited number of Benue indigenes. This has contributed to the hundreds of qualified candidates of Benue State origin being unable to gain admission into the University.
It is against this background that a 13- member steering committee for the proposed University was inaugurated by the Government of Benue State under the Executive leadership of His Excellency, Lt. Col. Fidelis Attahiru Makka on Thursday, 18th August 1991.
This Committee was charged, among other things, to seek and obtain formal approval for the establishment of a State University. The Committee completed its work on schedule.
The elected Government of Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu consequently approved the Report of the Committee. Following this approval the University took off with four Faculties for the 1992/1993 session, namely; Arts, Education Science and Social Sciences. Since then, two more faculties have been added. They are: Faculty of Management Sciences, Faculty of Law, and the College of Medical Sciences has also been established
The mission of the University was clearly defined in the stated objectives as contained in the Edit establishing the University thus:
-To encourage and promote advancement of knowledge and to hold out to all persons without discrimination of race, creed or political conviction, the opportunity of acquiring University education;
-To encourage the effective application of higher education to the needs of the State through research and extension and consultancy;
-To provide ready access for Benue State Citizens to higher education for self reliance;
-To promote, preserve and propagate the social and cultural heritage of the diverse people of the state and
-To engage in any other activities of a developmental University of the highest standard.
-The establishment of Benue State University, Makurdi on December 27th, 1991 was a culmination of decades of sustained efforts by successive administration, since the creation of the state in 1976, to address an educational in balance, the roots of which can be traced to as far back as the Colonial period.
Benue State was created in 1976 and by 1980 the Civilian Executive Governor of the State; Mr. Aper Aku has expressed the desire of his administration to establish a University. Professor Jibril Aminu was requested to conduct a feasibility studies for the proposed State University. In 1982, the Benue State University of Technology was established by the State Government with Professor Ochapa C. Onazi as its pioneer Vice Chancellor. This establishment prompted the then President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari to announce the immediate take-over of the Benue State more of such Universities in other parts of Nigeria.
Tribute must be paid to Colonel Attahiru Makka, the Military Governor of Benue State from 1989 to 1992, during which the proposed Benue State University became a reality in 1991. the University is located in Makurdi, Benue State capital on a land area 180,494 hectares along Makurdi Gboko Road.
In 1992/93 academic sessions, admission of students into the six faculties was estimated at 700 to rise steadily to 2,100 in 1996/97 session. Today in addition to the existing six faculties, College of Health Sciences has been established and the University Teaching Hospital is under construction. For the breakdown shows that under graduate 12,070,Sandwich 1,579, Postgraduates 1,643, Sub-Degree 1,998, remedial Programmes: Science 720, Pre-VTE 480 and French 241.
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This tremendous increase in staff strength and student enrolment can be attributed to handwork and determination of staff and students, and the continuous financial support of the Benue State Government. Concomitantly, our academic programmes have also expanded over the years. We now have seven faculties and a College of Health Sciences. Altogether we have 22 Departments.
Our graduate programmes have also come a long way. From an initial nineteen programmes, we now have fifty graduate academic programmes spread across all the faculties.
The University’s achievements have received ovations all over the country. In 2004, the Vice Chancellor of the University was voted best Vice Chancellor of the Universities and in 2005, the University received Award for best Governing Council of State Universities.
Our graduates have continued to perform credibly well in and outside the country. Many are pursuing or have successfully completed postgraduate programmes within and outside the country.
Out IT Services have continued to expand with the introduction of on-line registration, other services and programmes. The facilities available are currently being upgraded through the provision of bigger bandwidth and other accessories.
Benue State University was established in 1992 as a response to a genuine need by the State Government to provide the essential impetus to economic, cultural, social and vocational development. Although there is a Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi, the Benue State Government decided in favour of a conventional University partly for the reason that the Federal University of Agriculture is so specialized that courses offered are available only to a limited number of Benue indigenes. This has contributed to the hundreds of qualified candidates of Benue State origin being unable to gain admission into the University.
It is against this background that a 13- member steering committee for the proposed University was inaugurated by the Government of Benue State under the Executive leadership of His Excellency, Lt. Col. Fidelis Attahiru Makka on Thursday, 18th August 1991.
This Committee was charged, among other things, to seek and obtain formal approval for the establishment of a State University. The Committee completed its work on schedule.
The elected Government of Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu consequently approved the Report of the Committee. Following this approval the University took off with four Faculties for the 1992/1993 session, namely; Arts, Education Science and Social Sciences. Since then, two more faculties have been added. They are: Faculty of Management Sciences, Faculty of Law, and the College of Medical Sciences has also been established
The mission of the University was clearly defined in the stated objectives as contained in the Edit establishing the University thus:
-To encourage and promote advancement of knowledge and to hold out to all persons without discrimination of race, creed or political conviction, the opportunity of acquiring University education;
-To encourage the effective application of higher education to the needs of the State through research and extension and consultancy;
-To provide ready access for Benue State Citizens to higher education for self reliance;
-To promote, preserve and propagate the social and cultural heritage of the diverse people of the state and
-To engage in any other activities of a developmental University of the highest standard.
-The establishment of Benue State University, Makurdi on December 27th, 1991 was a culmination of decades of sustained efforts by successive administration, since the creation of the state in 1976, to address an educational in balance, the roots of which can be traced to as far back as the Colonial period.
Benue State was created in 1976 and by 1980 the Civilian Executive Governor of the State; Mr. Aper Aku has expressed the desire of his administration to establish a University. Professor Jibril Aminu was requested to conduct a feasibility studies for the proposed State University. In 1982, the Benue State University of Technology was established by the State Government with Professor Ochapa C. Onazi as its pioneer Vice Chancellor. This establishment prompted the then President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari to announce the immediate take-over of the Benue State more of such Universities in other parts of Nigeria.
Tribute must be paid to Colonel Attahiru Makka, the Military Governor of Benue State from 1989 to 1992, during which the proposed Benue State University became a reality in 1991. the University is located in Makurdi, Benue State capital on a land area 180,494 hectares along Makurdi Gboko Road.
In 1992/93 academic sessions, admission of students into the six faculties was estimated at 700 to rise steadily to 2,100 in 1996/97 session. Today in addition to the existing six faculties, College of Health Sciences has been established and the University Teaching Hospital is under construction. For the breakdown shows that under graduate 12,070,Sandwich 1,579, Postgraduates 1,643, Sub-Degree 1,998, remedial Programmes: Science 720, Pre-VTE 480 and French 241.
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY
About Delsu
The mission of Delta State
University is to promote quality
education, character and cultural
transformation, to meet the
challenges of our time through
exemplary scholarship and
professionalism for the purpose of
addressing local, national and
international issues in key areas
so as to contribute to the
improvement of the global
community.
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The mission of Delta State
University is to promote quality
education, character and cultural
transformation, to meet the
challenges of our time through
exemplary scholarship and
professionalism for the purpose of
addressing local, national and
international issues in key areas
so as to contribute to the
improvement of the global
community.
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Ambrose Alli University
Ambrose Alli University is a University in Nigeria established in 1981. It was established by the then governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States), Professor Ambrose Folorunso Alli (1979-1983). First known as Bendel State University, then Edo State University, it was later changed to its present name in commemoration of Alli.
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Alumni
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder Christ Embassy ( Believers Loveworld Inc)www. christembassy.com
Ojo Osamwonyi, CEO of the United Bank of Africa
Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer
Alli Ahmed, an Engineer
Samuel Oboh, Canadian Architect and President of Alberta Chapter of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
Dr. Benjamin Ehikioya, a Business Management Consultant
Uwa Stanley Amadasu, American based Research Chemist American Chemical Society(ACS)
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Alumni
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder Christ Embassy ( Believers Loveworld Inc)www. christembassy.com
Ojo Osamwonyi, CEO of the United Bank of Africa
Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer
Alli Ahmed, an Engineer
Samuel Oboh, Canadian Architect and President of Alberta Chapter of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
Dr. Benjamin Ehikioya, a Business Management Consultant
Uwa Stanley Amadasu, American based Research Chemist American Chemical Society(ACS)
Ambrose Alli University
Ambrose Alli University is a University in Nigeria established in 1981. It was established by the then governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States), Professor Ambrose Folorunso Alli (1979-1983). First known as Bendel State University, then Edo State University, it was later changed to its present name in commemoration of Alli.
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Alumni
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder Christ Embassy ( Believers Loveworld Inc)www. christembassy.com
Ojo Osamwonyi, CEO of the United Bank of Africa
Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer
Alli Ahmed, an Engineer
Samuel Oboh, Canadian Architect and President of Alberta Chapter of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
Dr. Benjamin Ehikioya, a Business Management Consultant
Uwa Stanley Amadasu, American based Research Chemist American Chemical Society(ACS)
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
Alumni
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder Christ Embassy ( Believers Loveworld Inc)www. christembassy.com
Ojo Osamwonyi, CEO of the United Bank of Africa
Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer
Alli Ahmed, an Engineer
Samuel Oboh, Canadian Architect and President of Alberta Chapter of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
Dr. Benjamin Ehikioya, a Business Management Consultant
Uwa Stanley Amadasu, American based Research Chemist American Chemical Society(ACS)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
LASU crisis deepens
The crisis at the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has continued to stall academic activities in the institution, weeks after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended its four-month-old strike. Administrative offices and lecture halls have been under lock as the university workers stuck to their guns, never to resume work unless the Vice- Chancellor, Prof Lateef Akanni Hussain, is removed from office.
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Our reporter who visited the institution was greeted by the grave silence at the Administrative Unit, where fetish objects, suspected to be charms, were planted at the entrance doors to the offices of the Vice- Chancellor and his deputy. A small earthly ware was kept at the entrance of the VC’s office, while the door to the office of his deputy was sealed off with palm leaves, which traditionally signaled danger.
Academic and non-academic staff were seen in groups discussing the latest reports from their union leaders. Rumours flew in different direction at Abe-igi, the students relaxation centre, where various speakers held their listeners captive with fresh diet of lies.
Speaking to Daily Sun, one of the workers who wouldn’t want his name in print, warned that the earthly ware with its diabolical contents was a bad omen. He recounted a similar incident in the past when the management had to engage clerics to dispose fetish objects deposited in the institution. Reacting to our reporter’s questions on the fetish objects, he retorted that ‘only a fool dares a lion’.
The fear of these charms lurks in the hearts of other workers who have kept their distance from the Admin block. Most of them sat under tree shades, chatting and yearning for any bit of information that would trickle in. It was gathered that the workers have adopted serious austere measure since their salaries have not been paid for the past four months.
The protracted crisis in the university has kept over 70,000 students of the university on an indefinite holiday. The institution has been torn apart by internal feud over the second term bid of Professor Lateef Hussain as the Vice- Chancellor. Some aggrieved members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technicians (NAAT), have vociferously condemned the leadership style of the VC and called for his removal. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), LASU wing, led by the President, Mr. Gbemileke Bakare, has equally expressed its grievances, listing a legion of allegations against him.
In a paper circulated during the public hearing of the LASU crisis at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the workers described their boss as an emperor with an ‘iron fist’. “Lagos State University has become a prison under Prof Lateef Hussain since he assumed office on October 10, 2005. The Vice Chancellor arbitrarily witch-hunts and sacks staff for flimsy excuses. He denies the academic and non-academic staff their deserved promotion at will. LASU has become an ‘Old Peoples Home’ where retired, tired and expired friends of Prof Hussain take sanctuary”, the group claimed.
The workers also alleged that the Vice Chancellor has a penchant for abusing process for contract- award, which led to inflation of contract sum and misappropriation of fund.
“Professor Hussain by-passes the University Tender’s Board, uses his own illegal Vice-Chancellor’s committee and get executive approval of the Chairman, Governing Council without recourse to the University Finance and General Purpose Committee. This way, Prof Hussain has been able to inflate contract values and commit other atrocities”, the group said.
Even the LASU students also have their own compilation of Hussain’s transgressions. When the embattled VC stepped into the gallery of the Lagos State House of Assembly on the day of the public hearing, he was greeted by shouts of mockery and reproach from students.
Speaking at the hearing, Prof Hussain maintained that his reform measures in the institution didn’t go down well with some people who were apparently benefiting from the rot.
Though battalions of opposing forces line against the Vice-Chancellor, he has continued to enjoy the goodwill of some workers who applaud his reform programmes that have laundered the sully image of the school. One of the workers, who spoke with Daily Sun, but wouldn’t want his name published, noted that the Vice-Chancellor waged a successful war against cultism, examination malpractice and other nefarious acts that dragged LASU’s name in the mud.
“With Hussain, it is no longer business as usual, especially at the satellite campuses. Many of them are angry”, he said.
One of the female students of the school who gave her name as Folake, praised the VC for his courage in tackling the perennial problems of the school.
According to her, “The man is not as bad as they paint him. They don’t want him to continue. But for me, he has done well as the Vice Chancellor”.
Like a lone voice in a crowd of opposition, the likes of Folake hold their tongues in their cheek as other workers have continued to prophesy an imminent fall of Hussain’s empire. Some of the workers who spoke with our reporter rejoiced that the recent vacancies declared for the positions of the registrar, bursar and the university librarian have raised their hope of victory. They reasoned that changing the leadership of the key positions, which were earlier held by staff loyal to Prof Hussain, would inevitably usher in a wind of change in leadership.
The Governing Council of the university has not rested in its effort to bring a peaceful end to the conflict. Recently, it held up an olive branch to all student activists, especially those whose names are in the black book for leading the protest against the VC.
To calm the troubled sea, the council, chaired by the University Chancellor, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, met to address the students’ grievances.
“In the spirit of amicable resolution of all conflicts, council agreed to a general amnesty to all students, who have been involved in the past and present crises in the university. Council assures students that on no account will any student be victimized on the account of the role played in the current crisis on the various campuses of the university”.
The council also called for the release of students’ union dues for 2005/2006 academic session and balances of dues of subsequent sessions warehoused by the university management.
The Governing Council acceded to the union’s demand for the payment of fees by full-time students in two instalments of N15,000 and N10,000 during the first and second semesters respectively.
The landmark in their resolution was the setting up of the Students Advisory Committee to replace the Students Welfare Committee. In order to strengthen the committee, the council directed that the body should be headed by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the university.
Speaking on the charm deposited at the Admin block, Pastor Anayo Odimkpa of Trumpet Sound Deliverance Ministry, decried the use of diabolical means to achieve selfish ends. He warned that the sanctity of the academic institution has been desecrated and called on the management to conduct purification prayers before resuming academic activities.
“It is quite unfortunate that people’s inordinate ambitions drive them to the height of insanity. In this modern age, people in the university who are supposed to be excellent models are resorting to fetish charms to change leadership. May God save us from evil”, he said.
On his part, the Supervisor, Post Primary School Management Board, Obollo-Afor, Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Paulinus Ike Ogara, said that it was laughable for educated people to condescend to the level of using voodoo powers in an age marked by stupendous breakthrough in technology.
“When university staff relapse into fetishism as a means of settling scores, then wisdom has fled to brutish beasts. What do these people want to teach the students? The learning environment has been polluted. Knowledge is a gift of the Holy Spirit. How would it come in such an ungodly environment? The perpetrators of these evils should repent and join hands to save the institution from further troubles”, he added.
As the tussle for power rages on, thousands of LASU students are left to lick their wounds at home. Worst affected are the final year students who are trapped in the cross fire of this unending crisis.
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Our reporter who visited the institution was greeted by the grave silence at the Administrative Unit, where fetish objects, suspected to be charms, were planted at the entrance doors to the offices of the Vice- Chancellor and his deputy. A small earthly ware was kept at the entrance of the VC’s office, while the door to the office of his deputy was sealed off with palm leaves, which traditionally signaled danger.
Academic and non-academic staff were seen in groups discussing the latest reports from their union leaders. Rumours flew in different direction at Abe-igi, the students relaxation centre, where various speakers held their listeners captive with fresh diet of lies.
Speaking to Daily Sun, one of the workers who wouldn’t want his name in print, warned that the earthly ware with its diabolical contents was a bad omen. He recounted a similar incident in the past when the management had to engage clerics to dispose fetish objects deposited in the institution. Reacting to our reporter’s questions on the fetish objects, he retorted that ‘only a fool dares a lion’.
The fear of these charms lurks in the hearts of other workers who have kept their distance from the Admin block. Most of them sat under tree shades, chatting and yearning for any bit of information that would trickle in. It was gathered that the workers have adopted serious austere measure since their salaries have not been paid for the past four months.
The protracted crisis in the university has kept over 70,000 students of the university on an indefinite holiday. The institution has been torn apart by internal feud over the second term bid of Professor Lateef Hussain as the Vice- Chancellor. Some aggrieved members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technicians (NAAT), have vociferously condemned the leadership style of the VC and called for his removal. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), LASU wing, led by the President, Mr. Gbemileke Bakare, has equally expressed its grievances, listing a legion of allegations against him.
In a paper circulated during the public hearing of the LASU crisis at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the workers described their boss as an emperor with an ‘iron fist’. “Lagos State University has become a prison under Prof Lateef Hussain since he assumed office on October 10, 2005. The Vice Chancellor arbitrarily witch-hunts and sacks staff for flimsy excuses. He denies the academic and non-academic staff their deserved promotion at will. LASU has become an ‘Old Peoples Home’ where retired, tired and expired friends of Prof Hussain take sanctuary”, the group claimed.
The workers also alleged that the Vice Chancellor has a penchant for abusing process for contract- award, which led to inflation of contract sum and misappropriation of fund.
“Professor Hussain by-passes the University Tender’s Board, uses his own illegal Vice-Chancellor’s committee and get executive approval of the Chairman, Governing Council without recourse to the University Finance and General Purpose Committee. This way, Prof Hussain has been able to inflate contract values and commit other atrocities”, the group said.
Even the LASU students also have their own compilation of Hussain’s transgressions. When the embattled VC stepped into the gallery of the Lagos State House of Assembly on the day of the public hearing, he was greeted by shouts of mockery and reproach from students.
Speaking at the hearing, Prof Hussain maintained that his reform measures in the institution didn’t go down well with some people who were apparently benefiting from the rot.
Though battalions of opposing forces line against the Vice-Chancellor, he has continued to enjoy the goodwill of some workers who applaud his reform programmes that have laundered the sully image of the school. One of the workers, who spoke with Daily Sun, but wouldn’t want his name published, noted that the Vice-Chancellor waged a successful war against cultism, examination malpractice and other nefarious acts that dragged LASU’s name in the mud.
“With Hussain, it is no longer business as usual, especially at the satellite campuses. Many of them are angry”, he said.
One of the female students of the school who gave her name as Folake, praised the VC for his courage in tackling the perennial problems of the school.
According to her, “The man is not as bad as they paint him. They don’t want him to continue. But for me, he has done well as the Vice Chancellor”.
Like a lone voice in a crowd of opposition, the likes of Folake hold their tongues in their cheek as other workers have continued to prophesy an imminent fall of Hussain’s empire. Some of the workers who spoke with our reporter rejoiced that the recent vacancies declared for the positions of the registrar, bursar and the university librarian have raised their hope of victory. They reasoned that changing the leadership of the key positions, which were earlier held by staff loyal to Prof Hussain, would inevitably usher in a wind of change in leadership.
The Governing Council of the university has not rested in its effort to bring a peaceful end to the conflict. Recently, it held up an olive branch to all student activists, especially those whose names are in the black book for leading the protest against the VC.
To calm the troubled sea, the council, chaired by the University Chancellor, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, met to address the students’ grievances.
“In the spirit of amicable resolution of all conflicts, council agreed to a general amnesty to all students, who have been involved in the past and present crises in the university. Council assures students that on no account will any student be victimized on the account of the role played in the current crisis on the various campuses of the university”.
The council also called for the release of students’ union dues for 2005/2006 academic session and balances of dues of subsequent sessions warehoused by the university management.
The Governing Council acceded to the union’s demand for the payment of fees by full-time students in two instalments of N15,000 and N10,000 during the first and second semesters respectively.
The landmark in their resolution was the setting up of the Students Advisory Committee to replace the Students Welfare Committee. In order to strengthen the committee, the council directed that the body should be headed by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the university.
Speaking on the charm deposited at the Admin block, Pastor Anayo Odimkpa of Trumpet Sound Deliverance Ministry, decried the use of diabolical means to achieve selfish ends. He warned that the sanctity of the academic institution has been desecrated and called on the management to conduct purification prayers before resuming academic activities.
“It is quite unfortunate that people’s inordinate ambitions drive them to the height of insanity. In this modern age, people in the university who are supposed to be excellent models are resorting to fetish charms to change leadership. May God save us from evil”, he said.
On his part, the Supervisor, Post Primary School Management Board, Obollo-Afor, Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Paulinus Ike Ogara, said that it was laughable for educated people to condescend to the level of using voodoo powers in an age marked by stupendous breakthrough in technology.
“When university staff relapse into fetishism as a means of settling scores, then wisdom has fled to brutish beasts. What do these people want to teach the students? The learning environment has been polluted. Knowledge is a gift of the Holy Spirit. How would it come in such an ungodly environment? The perpetrators of these evils should repent and join hands to save the institution from further troubles”, he added.
As the tussle for power rages on, thousands of LASU students are left to lick their wounds at home. Worst affected are the final year students who are trapped in the cross fire of this unending crisis.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
FG/ASUU: Counting the Losses of a Face-off
After almost four months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) have all suspended their strikes. THISDAY reporters last week visited many of the campuses across the country to find out what prize they had to pay
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
There was hardly any Nigerian that was not affected by what may be referred to as the “combined strikes' by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), either directly or indirectly.
The relief was therefore universal when all the strikes were suspended last week, after the unions were able to reach some agreements with the government. From Sokoto to Bayelsa, Ondo to Adamawa states, THISDAY reporters visited several universities for on-the-spot assessment of the cost of the industrial action.
With the exception of about five that did not join the strike, including, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Adamawa State University, Mubi; University of Ilorin, Ebonyi and Enugu States Universities; federal and state universities in the country, 67 in all, have lost at least a semester.
Academic calendars that a good number of them were struggling to adjust to the good old 'September to July' have once again been dislocated. University of Jos (UNIJOS)'s calendar, for example was far behind those of many others. With one whole semester lost, the institution has been pushed further back.
Many of the universities were about to start their examinations when the strike began and in just about a week after the suspension, a few of them started their examinations last Monday. Some students even wrote tests a day after getting back to school.
Information Officer of the University of Calabar, Dr. Joseph Ekpang captured the consequence of this: students were returning to school rusty and this may lead to increase in examination malpractices and other vices as lecturers were bound to rush students in the remaining part of the session.
These are the easily observable losses. There are others that are easily overlooked but no less devastating. As Ekpang again observed, “the real cost of the strike is the dislocation of the economy of Cross River State, which revolves around the student population.”
This is true of all the institutions. Indeed, any school for that matter. A widow and mother of three, who prefers anonymity, runs a snacks shop at the University of Lagos. She described the strike as “a terrible experience because that (shop) is all we depend on for livelihood. There are some of the shops that are run by both husband and wife, so you can imagine. These strikes make businesses to collapse because they happen suddenly and many of things we sell, like packaged drinks, biscuits and gala expire and cannot be sold again. Whether we sell or not, we pay for the shops annually. It takes time for us to recover because things are so expensive now”, she lamented.
Usman Danfodio University (UDU), Sokoto, which announced immediate resumption of lectures on October 19, showed clearly the difference between an abandoned campus and an inhabited one. Mohammed Aminu reports that black boards in some lecture theatres on the main campus were cracked. Some of the reagents in the laboratories, especially the chemical pathology laboratories that would have been used up by now to train medical students had expired.
It was also observed that the cadaver, preserved for the training of 500-600 level medical students had been destroyed and no longer useful, because those that would have replenished the chemicals used in preserving them were on strike. In addition to this, weeds had overgrown some of the hostels on the main campus, while some rooms in the hostels needed new electric bulbs.
The situation was however completely different at the city campus where most of the students were allowed to stay in the hostels during the strike action.
Like many universities, those most affected were second and third-year medical students, who were about to write their examination before the strike commenced. The school authorities therefore generally allowed students to stay in the hostels, while lecture rooms and libraries were also open. As such, most of the facilities at the city campus were still intact.
Augustine Osayande also reports from Jalingo that the Taraba State University was approved by the National University Commission (NUC), several months before the ASUU strike, but when he visited the mini campus, located within the state polytechnic in Jalingo, not even the minimum facilities required for a university to take off were on ground. Observers have questioned the rationale behind the approval. At the proposed permanent site of the university at the state College of Education, construction work had been put on hold for financial reasons.
Normalcy is gradually returning to the system. A lecturer in the Microbiology Department at UNIJOS, Mr. Ezekiel Danjuma, told Seriki Adinoyi that, "all the laboratory specimens we prepared and cultured to teach students got wasted as they could not be preserved through the long strike period."
Another in the Mass Communication Department,Major Adeyi said, "this morning I had a good attendance of about 50 student in my class. We want to try to get back to work in full force to enable us cover lost grounds."
In the Human Physiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine, the reporter learnt that the Post-graduate admission exercise that should have been completed was put on hold because of the strike. "We now wait for directive from the postgraduate school to know what next to do”, a source said.
UNIJOS is considering admitting new students based on their JAMB scores alone as the Post UME screening that was conducted during the strike was cancelled, because the local Chapter of ASUU protested the engagement of a Laqgos-based firm to conduct another written test for the candidates, instead of the face-to-face interaction between them and lecturers.
At the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Uche Nnaike saw labourers clearing the weeds that were threatening to take over the campus. University Librarian, Dr. Okanlawon Adediji said his department could not participate in an online international programme, which held during the strike. Now that academic activities have resumed, he said there would be a lot of pressure on the facilities, as students would scramble for the limited spaces and materials in the library.
He said various departments usually do some maintenance work on some of their facilities during the long vacation, but this could not happen during the strike. Since they did not know when it would be suspended, being caught in the middle of the work would be disruptive to the system.
Adediji said the library remained open during the strike to accommodate lecturers and students who seized the opportunity to conduct some research. On the after effect of the strike, he said most students would not make the next batch of the National Youth Service Corps programme and the Law School. This he said would lead to a surge in the next batch.
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Oluwole Familoni said lecturers were kept in suspense, not knowing when the strike would be called off. As such, they could neither go on holidays nor attend conferences and other self-development programmes within and outside country.
A final year student of the Department of Cell Biology/Genetics, Mr. Francis Imoh confirmed that there has been a rush in the academic programme and students, especially finalists were given unrealistic deadlines for the submission of projects and other assignments.
He also confirmed that samples for students' experiment went bad as the laboratories were shut down. Besides, no attendant was available to guide students through their experiments because the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) was also on strike. This, he said, meant extra cost for the students.
While Imoh said the hostels needed to be renovated, an attendant at the Physics Laboratory, who preferred anonymity, said since the equipment were in good condition the last time they were used and was kept in a secured place, they were fine.
The University of Ilorin has not gone on strike, an aftermath of the crisis that led to the sack of 49 of its lecturers in 2001. It was therefore not affected by the latest strike. When Hameed Shittu visited the institution, which resumed for 2009/2010 academic session last month, students were seen in their various lecture halls.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said the university had no regret over the non participation of its workers in the nation-wide strike. Although the university had been criticised over its position on the strike, he said posterity will vindicate the institution on the matter.
“It is part of our academic freedom to think differently at this stage of our institutional experience. We agree that people have the right to disagree and we share the sentiments of the 36th American president, Lyndon B. Johnson when he said 'where three people are discussing and two are nodding in agreement, only one person is thinking'.
“If thinking about the future of future generations and making sacrifice for the university system not to collapse are what we are criticised for, so be it. Our sense of probity is profound and posterity will ultimately vindicate the righteous”, he said. Oloyede said there are some people who deceitfully criticise programmes and activities of the university overtly, but show covertly that they envy the success it has recorded.
Staff and students of the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, resumed work immediately the strike was called off and academic activities began in earnest. The Spokesman, Sir Henry Acholonu told Amby Uneze that the academic calendar and conduct of the post-UME exercise were disrupted. The Senate has met to fine-tune the calendar for the remaining semesters.
While most of the infrastructures were in good condition, Acholonu admitted the school could do with more. The institution also suffered from erosion and environmental degradation while the strike lasted. But the Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Okere mobilised casual workers to tackle them.
Toba Suleiman, who visited the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), Ekiti State, found the entire campus over-grown weeds. The buildings, including the lectures theatres, were virtually submerged by the tall weeds,
Despite the suspension of the strike, UNAD was still struggling to get into the full swing of academic work as lecturers were yet to resume and students, who were yet to move into the hostels, were seen roaming about the university campus, lamenting their fate.
Besides, both the library and laboratory were apparently suffering from lack of use. The Registrar, Dr. Omojola Awosusi said academic activities could not resume until after the Senate has met and reviewed the academic calendar.
Whereas the second semester examination was scheduled for November in the original calendar, the school is yet to conduct that of the first semester. Law students that had lost six months in the former calendar have now lost a year, while some experiments in agricultural research have been abandoned and the researchers have to start all over again.
He expressed regret that the strike has had adverse effects on a lot of activities in the institution as it had been shut, following a student unrest, before the general strike began.
Adamawa State University, Mubi, established about four years ago, is yet to be unionised and so did not join the strike. Not so the Federal University of Technology Yola (FUTY). The Vice-Chancellor, of FUTY, Prof. Bashir Usman, who took Matthew Onah round the campus, described the effect of the strike on the university infrastructure as devastating.
Although they were yet to fully assess the impact, he said the management was compelled to hire more than 50 private sanitation workers, at a huge cost, to cut the grasses and weeds that almost overwhelmed the university during the period of the strike, which was the peak of the rainy season.
Usman further said, they were conducting a general assessment of the laboratories and workshops, to check which chemicals had expired and needed to be replaced and which machinery to retool.
With dirt and cobwebs adorning every office, laboratories, lecture theatres and workshops, the Vice Chancellor observed that the sanitation workers would have to work overtime to make the environment habitable before the students would be allowed to resume, this week.
Despite the suspension of the national strike, the local branches of all the four unions at the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo remain in the trenches due to a protracted dispute with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akanni Hussain and his management team.
The unions were agitating for improved conditions of service, welfare package and good working relationship, among others. They also alleged victimisation, harassment and intimidation by the Vice Chancellor, who they also accused of contract inflation.
Funmi Ogundare, who visited, reports that equipment and structures were gathering dust. A lecturer who preferred anonymity in the Foreign Language Laboratory said, “the laboratory is a 2004/2005 project, what we have here is skeletal equipment. Nothing is functional.” Another lecturer in the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, Mr. Adewole Adeoye said most of the computers and other facilities in his department had deteriorated owning to lack of use for a long time. Yet another lecturer in the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Dr. Tajudeen Abanikanda said the institution was endowed with sufficient financial, human and material resources, but unfortunately, “it is the problem of leadership and management that had gotten us to where we are today.”
He regretted that the institution's resources were properly channeled. Before the ASUU strike, he said, he was engaged in a research which was 80 percent completed, but he had to start all over again because the subjects were human. The project was neither supported nor funded by the institution. “I am in the Faculty of Sciences and the so called laboratories we have are nothing to write home about. The university says it has a central research laboratory, but I can tell you that it is nothing but a hoax.”
Abanikanda drew attention to the SL Edu lecture theatre saying, “I met that building on ground and nothing has been added since then. If you go to the Faculty of Sciences, you will see some car parks (with) money running into millions spent in constructing the car park which is sufficient to give us an auditorium for students to receive lectures. Unless the Vice Chancellor is removed from office, LASU will not be back to life”, he said.
Ekpang told Ernest Chinwo that neither facilities nor the environment of the University of Calabar suffered any depreciation as daily paid workers were used to maintain them.“What we basically lost”, the Information Officer said, “was the academic calendar. The implications are obvious. For instance, we had projected that the new session would start in October but because of the strike, it will now start in February (next year).” The university's Committee of Deans had already come out with a revised calendar with lectures beginning last Monday, October 26.
Deputy Registrar Information and Protocol, at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Mr Omololu Adegbenro also told James Sowole that the university's facilities were maintained throughout the period of strike. According to him, the workers in the school's Parks and Gardens of the school, who were responsible for cleaning of the environment and halls of residence, are contractors that do not go on strike.
Academic activities had since commenced in earnest "At FUTA we did not have much problem over the strike. The calendar was only affected slightly, which we are already coping with and normal academic activities already going on. THISDAY learnt that despite the strike, academic staff that were carrying out one form of research or the other continued with their work because they knew that their promotion depended on these.
The Wilberforce Island campus of the Niger Delta University (NDU) was in a good state and the facilities, well managed when Segun James visited. But this was not the case at the Faculty of Law in Yenagoa, which was overgrown with weeds. The University's Teaching Hospital at Okolobiri was worse as almost all the physical infrastructures were falling apart.
Most of the internal road networks within the hospital had given way, including the one leading to the ever busy mortuary. People who came to pick the remains of their loved ones had to carry them over a distance to get to where their vehicles were parked.
The small campus in Amassoma bounced back to life immediately the strike was called off. The grasses were all trimmed and some construction work going on when THISDAY called. Some students interviewed confirmed that majority of them live off campus.
Even though the laboratories, lecture halls and hostels were in good shape, cleaners at the old site of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) must have remained on strike when Ibrahim Shuaibu called, with the heaps of refuse littering everywhere. The hostels were particularly bad.
Members of the university community continue to grapple with the perennial problem of inadequate transportation between the two campuses of the university as lecturers and students resumed, but were merely idling away as academic activities were yet to start.
The situation was the same at the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, lecturers and students have resumed with nothing to do. THISDAY learnt that lectures may not commence in the next two weeks as some structures were being renovated.
Both personnel and medications were available at the university clinic in BUK, but some students said they preferred to visit hospitals in the city due to alleged unnecessary bureaucracy at the clinic.
Asked why lectures had not commenced, Chairman of the BUK chapter of ASUU, Dr. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa said the suspension of the strike meant that lecturers were to report to their offices. It is the responsibility of university authorities to call students back.
A lecturer at KUST, Malam Muhammad Sani Gaya told THISDAY that he and his colleagues were eager to return to work, considering the a whole semester had been lost to the strike.
How can the nation avoid these losses? Former Minister of Education, Prof. Babatunde Fafunwa provided the answer: Dialogue, dialogue and dialogu. Asked to react to the signing of the Agreement between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last week, he expressed hope that, from now on, any issue between the government and university workers would be settled through dialogue and not strikes because “strike is an ill-wind that blows no one any good.”
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
There was hardly any Nigerian that was not affected by what may be referred to as the “combined strikes' by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), either directly or indirectly.
The relief was therefore universal when all the strikes were suspended last week, after the unions were able to reach some agreements with the government. From Sokoto to Bayelsa, Ondo to Adamawa states, THISDAY reporters visited several universities for on-the-spot assessment of the cost of the industrial action.
With the exception of about five that did not join the strike, including, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Adamawa State University, Mubi; University of Ilorin, Ebonyi and Enugu States Universities; federal and state universities in the country, 67 in all, have lost at least a semester.
Academic calendars that a good number of them were struggling to adjust to the good old 'September to July' have once again been dislocated. University of Jos (UNIJOS)'s calendar, for example was far behind those of many others. With one whole semester lost, the institution has been pushed further back.
Many of the universities were about to start their examinations when the strike began and in just about a week after the suspension, a few of them started their examinations last Monday. Some students even wrote tests a day after getting back to school.
Information Officer of the University of Calabar, Dr. Joseph Ekpang captured the consequence of this: students were returning to school rusty and this may lead to increase in examination malpractices and other vices as lecturers were bound to rush students in the remaining part of the session.
These are the easily observable losses. There are others that are easily overlooked but no less devastating. As Ekpang again observed, “the real cost of the strike is the dislocation of the economy of Cross River State, which revolves around the student population.”
This is true of all the institutions. Indeed, any school for that matter. A widow and mother of three, who prefers anonymity, runs a snacks shop at the University of Lagos. She described the strike as “a terrible experience because that (shop) is all we depend on for livelihood. There are some of the shops that are run by both husband and wife, so you can imagine. These strikes make businesses to collapse because they happen suddenly and many of things we sell, like packaged drinks, biscuits and gala expire and cannot be sold again. Whether we sell or not, we pay for the shops annually. It takes time for us to recover because things are so expensive now”, she lamented.
Usman Danfodio University (UDU), Sokoto, which announced immediate resumption of lectures on October 19, showed clearly the difference between an abandoned campus and an inhabited one. Mohammed Aminu reports that black boards in some lecture theatres on the main campus were cracked. Some of the reagents in the laboratories, especially the chemical pathology laboratories that would have been used up by now to train medical students had expired.
It was also observed that the cadaver, preserved for the training of 500-600 level medical students had been destroyed and no longer useful, because those that would have replenished the chemicals used in preserving them were on strike. In addition to this, weeds had overgrown some of the hostels on the main campus, while some rooms in the hostels needed new electric bulbs.
The situation was however completely different at the city campus where most of the students were allowed to stay in the hostels during the strike action.
Like many universities, those most affected were second and third-year medical students, who were about to write their examination before the strike commenced. The school authorities therefore generally allowed students to stay in the hostels, while lecture rooms and libraries were also open. As such, most of the facilities at the city campus were still intact.
Augustine Osayande also reports from Jalingo that the Taraba State University was approved by the National University Commission (NUC), several months before the ASUU strike, but when he visited the mini campus, located within the state polytechnic in Jalingo, not even the minimum facilities required for a university to take off were on ground. Observers have questioned the rationale behind the approval. At the proposed permanent site of the university at the state College of Education, construction work had been put on hold for financial reasons.
Normalcy is gradually returning to the system. A lecturer in the Microbiology Department at UNIJOS, Mr. Ezekiel Danjuma, told Seriki Adinoyi that, "all the laboratory specimens we prepared and cultured to teach students got wasted as they could not be preserved through the long strike period."
Another in the Mass Communication Department,Major Adeyi said, "this morning I had a good attendance of about 50 student in my class. We want to try to get back to work in full force to enable us cover lost grounds."
In the Human Physiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine, the reporter learnt that the Post-graduate admission exercise that should have been completed was put on hold because of the strike. "We now wait for directive from the postgraduate school to know what next to do”, a source said.
UNIJOS is considering admitting new students based on their JAMB scores alone as the Post UME screening that was conducted during the strike was cancelled, because the local Chapter of ASUU protested the engagement of a Laqgos-based firm to conduct another written test for the candidates, instead of the face-to-face interaction between them and lecturers.
At the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Uche Nnaike saw labourers clearing the weeds that were threatening to take over the campus. University Librarian, Dr. Okanlawon Adediji said his department could not participate in an online international programme, which held during the strike. Now that academic activities have resumed, he said there would be a lot of pressure on the facilities, as students would scramble for the limited spaces and materials in the library.
He said various departments usually do some maintenance work on some of their facilities during the long vacation, but this could not happen during the strike. Since they did not know when it would be suspended, being caught in the middle of the work would be disruptive to the system.
Adediji said the library remained open during the strike to accommodate lecturers and students who seized the opportunity to conduct some research. On the after effect of the strike, he said most students would not make the next batch of the National Youth Service Corps programme and the Law School. This he said would lead to a surge in the next batch.
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Oluwole Familoni said lecturers were kept in suspense, not knowing when the strike would be called off. As such, they could neither go on holidays nor attend conferences and other self-development programmes within and outside country.
A final year student of the Department of Cell Biology/Genetics, Mr. Francis Imoh confirmed that there has been a rush in the academic programme and students, especially finalists were given unrealistic deadlines for the submission of projects and other assignments.
He also confirmed that samples for students' experiment went bad as the laboratories were shut down. Besides, no attendant was available to guide students through their experiments because the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) was also on strike. This, he said, meant extra cost for the students.
While Imoh said the hostels needed to be renovated, an attendant at the Physics Laboratory, who preferred anonymity, said since the equipment were in good condition the last time they were used and was kept in a secured place, they were fine.
The University of Ilorin has not gone on strike, an aftermath of the crisis that led to the sack of 49 of its lecturers in 2001. It was therefore not affected by the latest strike. When Hameed Shittu visited the institution, which resumed for 2009/2010 academic session last month, students were seen in their various lecture halls.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said the university had no regret over the non participation of its workers in the nation-wide strike. Although the university had been criticised over its position on the strike, he said posterity will vindicate the institution on the matter.
“It is part of our academic freedom to think differently at this stage of our institutional experience. We agree that people have the right to disagree and we share the sentiments of the 36th American president, Lyndon B. Johnson when he said 'where three people are discussing and two are nodding in agreement, only one person is thinking'.
“If thinking about the future of future generations and making sacrifice for the university system not to collapse are what we are criticised for, so be it. Our sense of probity is profound and posterity will ultimately vindicate the righteous”, he said. Oloyede said there are some people who deceitfully criticise programmes and activities of the university overtly, but show covertly that they envy the success it has recorded.
Staff and students of the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, resumed work immediately the strike was called off and academic activities began in earnest. The Spokesman, Sir Henry Acholonu told Amby Uneze that the academic calendar and conduct of the post-UME exercise were disrupted. The Senate has met to fine-tune the calendar for the remaining semesters.
While most of the infrastructures were in good condition, Acholonu admitted the school could do with more. The institution also suffered from erosion and environmental degradation while the strike lasted. But the Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Okere mobilised casual workers to tackle them.
Toba Suleiman, who visited the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), Ekiti State, found the entire campus over-grown weeds. The buildings, including the lectures theatres, were virtually submerged by the tall weeds,
Despite the suspension of the strike, UNAD was still struggling to get into the full swing of academic work as lecturers were yet to resume and students, who were yet to move into the hostels, were seen roaming about the university campus, lamenting their fate.
Besides, both the library and laboratory were apparently suffering from lack of use. The Registrar, Dr. Omojola Awosusi said academic activities could not resume until after the Senate has met and reviewed the academic calendar.
Whereas the second semester examination was scheduled for November in the original calendar, the school is yet to conduct that of the first semester. Law students that had lost six months in the former calendar have now lost a year, while some experiments in agricultural research have been abandoned and the researchers have to start all over again.
He expressed regret that the strike has had adverse effects on a lot of activities in the institution as it had been shut, following a student unrest, before the general strike began.
Adamawa State University, Mubi, established about four years ago, is yet to be unionised and so did not join the strike. Not so the Federal University of Technology Yola (FUTY). The Vice-Chancellor, of FUTY, Prof. Bashir Usman, who took Matthew Onah round the campus, described the effect of the strike on the university infrastructure as devastating.
Although they were yet to fully assess the impact, he said the management was compelled to hire more than 50 private sanitation workers, at a huge cost, to cut the grasses and weeds that almost overwhelmed the university during the period of the strike, which was the peak of the rainy season.
Usman further said, they were conducting a general assessment of the laboratories and workshops, to check which chemicals had expired and needed to be replaced and which machinery to retool.
With dirt and cobwebs adorning every office, laboratories, lecture theatres and workshops, the Vice Chancellor observed that the sanitation workers would have to work overtime to make the environment habitable before the students would be allowed to resume, this week.
Despite the suspension of the national strike, the local branches of all the four unions at the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo remain in the trenches due to a protracted dispute with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akanni Hussain and his management team.
The unions were agitating for improved conditions of service, welfare package and good working relationship, among others. They also alleged victimisation, harassment and intimidation by the Vice Chancellor, who they also accused of contract inflation.
Funmi Ogundare, who visited, reports that equipment and structures were gathering dust. A lecturer who preferred anonymity in the Foreign Language Laboratory said, “the laboratory is a 2004/2005 project, what we have here is skeletal equipment. Nothing is functional.” Another lecturer in the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, Mr. Adewole Adeoye said most of the computers and other facilities in his department had deteriorated owning to lack of use for a long time. Yet another lecturer in the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Dr. Tajudeen Abanikanda said the institution was endowed with sufficient financial, human and material resources, but unfortunately, “it is the problem of leadership and management that had gotten us to where we are today.”
He regretted that the institution's resources were properly channeled. Before the ASUU strike, he said, he was engaged in a research which was 80 percent completed, but he had to start all over again because the subjects were human. The project was neither supported nor funded by the institution. “I am in the Faculty of Sciences and the so called laboratories we have are nothing to write home about. The university says it has a central research laboratory, but I can tell you that it is nothing but a hoax.”
Abanikanda drew attention to the SL Edu lecture theatre saying, “I met that building on ground and nothing has been added since then. If you go to the Faculty of Sciences, you will see some car parks (with) money running into millions spent in constructing the car park which is sufficient to give us an auditorium for students to receive lectures. Unless the Vice Chancellor is removed from office, LASU will not be back to life”, he said.
Ekpang told Ernest Chinwo that neither facilities nor the environment of the University of Calabar suffered any depreciation as daily paid workers were used to maintain them.“What we basically lost”, the Information Officer said, “was the academic calendar. The implications are obvious. For instance, we had projected that the new session would start in October but because of the strike, it will now start in February (next year).” The university's Committee of Deans had already come out with a revised calendar with lectures beginning last Monday, October 26.
Deputy Registrar Information and Protocol, at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Mr Omololu Adegbenro also told James Sowole that the university's facilities were maintained throughout the period of strike. According to him, the workers in the school's Parks and Gardens of the school, who were responsible for cleaning of the environment and halls of residence, are contractors that do not go on strike.
Academic activities had since commenced in earnest "At FUTA we did not have much problem over the strike. The calendar was only affected slightly, which we are already coping with and normal academic activities already going on. THISDAY learnt that despite the strike, academic staff that were carrying out one form of research or the other continued with their work because they knew that their promotion depended on these.
The Wilberforce Island campus of the Niger Delta University (NDU) was in a good state and the facilities, well managed when Segun James visited. But this was not the case at the Faculty of Law in Yenagoa, which was overgrown with weeds. The University's Teaching Hospital at Okolobiri was worse as almost all the physical infrastructures were falling apart.
Most of the internal road networks within the hospital had given way, including the one leading to the ever busy mortuary. People who came to pick the remains of their loved ones had to carry them over a distance to get to where their vehicles were parked.
The small campus in Amassoma bounced back to life immediately the strike was called off. The grasses were all trimmed and some construction work going on when THISDAY called. Some students interviewed confirmed that majority of them live off campus.
Even though the laboratories, lecture halls and hostels were in good shape, cleaners at the old site of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) must have remained on strike when Ibrahim Shuaibu called, with the heaps of refuse littering everywhere. The hostels were particularly bad.
Members of the university community continue to grapple with the perennial problem of inadequate transportation between the two campuses of the university as lecturers and students resumed, but were merely idling away as academic activities were yet to start.
The situation was the same at the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, lecturers and students have resumed with nothing to do. THISDAY learnt that lectures may not commence in the next two weeks as some structures were being renovated.
Both personnel and medications were available at the university clinic in BUK, but some students said they preferred to visit hospitals in the city due to alleged unnecessary bureaucracy at the clinic.
Asked why lectures had not commenced, Chairman of the BUK chapter of ASUU, Dr. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa said the suspension of the strike meant that lecturers were to report to their offices. It is the responsibility of university authorities to call students back.
A lecturer at KUST, Malam Muhammad Sani Gaya told THISDAY that he and his colleagues were eager to return to work, considering the a whole semester had been lost to the strike.
How can the nation avoid these losses? Former Minister of Education, Prof. Babatunde Fafunwa provided the answer: Dialogue, dialogue and dialogu. Asked to react to the signing of the Agreement between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last week, he expressed hope that, from now on, any issue between the government and university workers would be settled through dialogue and not strikes because “strike is an ill-wind that blows no one any good.”
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The protest by blind graduates in Imo
THE recurring protests by physically challenged persons in some states of the federation with regard to their welfare and official responses are a sad comment on the governance process. This is increasingly the case as this category of citizens who require some form of assistance insist on their right to human dignity. The true measure of a society lies in its treatment of its less privileged members. Unfortunately, such agitation for better treatment in the past by the less privileged met with little or no success. It is time government in collaboration with civil society defined a comprehensive and meaningful framework for addressing the concerns of the physically challenged in our midst.
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The latest group of protesters, members of an association of visually impaired graduates and non-graduates, recently disrupted economic activities in Owerri, Imo State, as they marched on the Government House, alleging insensitivity to their plight by the state government. Before the Owerri protest, another group of physically challenged persons had protested on the streets of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital over the failure of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to pay certain grants allegedly promised them at the end of their training in various vocations, to help them set up small businesses.
The key message in these protests is clear. The physically challenged are saying that they deserve the support of both public and private sectors; that they are no longer prepared to be a burden to anybody in spite of life's challenges. Often, both government and other stakeholders treat the physically challenged condescendingly, placing emphasis on charity instead of rights and justice.
The displeasure of the Owerri group centred on the non-provision of employment opportunities for them after graduation. They also protested the alleged stoppage of bursary and scholarship allowances to their members despite several appeals to the state government. Group spokesman Mr. Clinton Amaechi was particular about the neglect by the present administration: "Since this administration came to power, the disabled persons in the state have been experiencing a lot of difficulties. So many of us have graduated and we don't have jobs." Again, that touches on the rather difficult situation the country faces over employment generation initiatives. The unemployment index in the country continues to rise, with many Nigerians placed at a disadvantage.
Amaechi's touching comments in refuting claims of government officials in the media that his association had been taken care of should be investigated by Governor Ikedi Ohakim. The same goes for the disclosure that nobody pays them (visually challenged students) the allowances and bursary any longer "since this administration came on board". The governor was reportedly away at the time of the protest. He should feel obliged to respond to the physically challenged persons' concern. It is particularly not good enough that the protest was brought under control by Government House security staff who raised emergency fund for the blind graduates on compassionate grounds, because no government official was available to attend to them.
Mr. Ohakim should not rule out the possibility of deceit by government functionaries. That, of course, has been the trademark of some government departments or agencies that are supposed to cater for special groups in society. With political scientists, lawyers and other professionals among them, the blind graduates do not deserve the harrowing experiences they are being subjected to (or to be left to moan their fate) after struggling to acquire higher education.
Allowing the students among them to suffer deprivation or ignoring the graduates is a reflection of the poor state of affairs in the country. The resolve of the graduates among them to work, and not to beg for survival, should encourage both the state government and the private sector to consider them for employment.
The incidents in Imo and Taraba states are by no means peculiar. This is a national problem which deserves the attention of the Federal and state authorities as well as the private sector and civil society groups. Bills could be considered as a matter of priority by the various legislative houses to review existing welfare provisions - if they are found inadequate - to address the fears that have been expressed. But in the long run the best approach is to create opportunities for all categories of Nigerians. The environment is hostile for both the able-bodied and the physically challenged raising serious questions about the quality of human life in the country.
The economy should be revitalised, investor-confidence needs to be restored to create an economy where persons can be gainfully employed, including the weak and vulnerable. A social security scheme, once proposed but abandoned, would also prove useful as a means of transforming Nigeria into a citizen-friendly and compassionate society.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
The latest group of protesters, members of an association of visually impaired graduates and non-graduates, recently disrupted economic activities in Owerri, Imo State, as they marched on the Government House, alleging insensitivity to their plight by the state government. Before the Owerri protest, another group of physically challenged persons had protested on the streets of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital over the failure of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to pay certain grants allegedly promised them at the end of their training in various vocations, to help them set up small businesses.
The key message in these protests is clear. The physically challenged are saying that they deserve the support of both public and private sectors; that they are no longer prepared to be a burden to anybody in spite of life's challenges. Often, both government and other stakeholders treat the physically challenged condescendingly, placing emphasis on charity instead of rights and justice.
The displeasure of the Owerri group centred on the non-provision of employment opportunities for them after graduation. They also protested the alleged stoppage of bursary and scholarship allowances to their members despite several appeals to the state government. Group spokesman Mr. Clinton Amaechi was particular about the neglect by the present administration: "Since this administration came to power, the disabled persons in the state have been experiencing a lot of difficulties. So many of us have graduated and we don't have jobs." Again, that touches on the rather difficult situation the country faces over employment generation initiatives. The unemployment index in the country continues to rise, with many Nigerians placed at a disadvantage.
Amaechi's touching comments in refuting claims of government officials in the media that his association had been taken care of should be investigated by Governor Ikedi Ohakim. The same goes for the disclosure that nobody pays them (visually challenged students) the allowances and bursary any longer "since this administration came on board". The governor was reportedly away at the time of the protest. He should feel obliged to respond to the physically challenged persons' concern. It is particularly not good enough that the protest was brought under control by Government House security staff who raised emergency fund for the blind graduates on compassionate grounds, because no government official was available to attend to them.
Mr. Ohakim should not rule out the possibility of deceit by government functionaries. That, of course, has been the trademark of some government departments or agencies that are supposed to cater for special groups in society. With political scientists, lawyers and other professionals among them, the blind graduates do not deserve the harrowing experiences they are being subjected to (or to be left to moan their fate) after struggling to acquire higher education.
Allowing the students among them to suffer deprivation or ignoring the graduates is a reflection of the poor state of affairs in the country. The resolve of the graduates among them to work, and not to beg for survival, should encourage both the state government and the private sector to consider them for employment.
The incidents in Imo and Taraba states are by no means peculiar. This is a national problem which deserves the attention of the Federal and state authorities as well as the private sector and civil society groups. Bills could be considered as a matter of priority by the various legislative houses to review existing welfare provisions - if they are found inadequate - to address the fears that have been expressed. But in the long run the best approach is to create opportunities for all categories of Nigerians. The environment is hostile for both the able-bodied and the physically challenged raising serious questions about the quality of human life in the country.
The economy should be revitalised, investor-confidence needs to be restored to create an economy where persons can be gainfully employed, including the weak and vulnerable. A social security scheme, once proposed but abandoned, would also prove useful as a means of transforming Nigeria into a citizen-friendly and compassionate society.
OAUTHC designs medical equipment
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife has designed seven local medical equipment which will boost effective delivery of medical services in the country.
The Chairman of the Management Board of OAUTHC, Professor Ebenezer Oluwole Akande who disclosed this at a press conference in Ile-Ife on Tuesday said that the equipment were designed by the Biomedical Engineering department of the hospital.
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The equipment, he said, included an angle poise lamp, a laboratory incubator, a centrifuge, a baby incubator, a suction machine, an orbital blood rocker and an electrophoresis machine.
Akande, who said that the equipment which were fabricated with available local materials took cognisance of major challenges posed by power and water which had become endemic in the environment.
Commending the Biomedical Engineering department for the feat, Professor Akande said the board was impressed with the invention, innovation and practical demonstration of selfless service that has led to the production of this equipment.
In his speech, the Head of department, Mr. Samuel Akomolafe, explained that the department embarked on fabrication of the medical equipment as a result of the challenge posed by constant breakdown of imported equipment due to irregular power supply.
He also said that the equipment would reduce over-dependence on foreign medical products, adding that they were easy to operate and repair.
Mr. Akomolafe said that the fabrication of equipment would reduce unemployment and promote indigenous technology in the country.
The Chairman of the Management Board of OAUTHC, Professor Ebenezer Oluwole Akande who disclosed this at a press conference in Ile-Ife on Tuesday said that the equipment were designed by the Biomedical Engineering department of the hospital.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
The equipment, he said, included an angle poise lamp, a laboratory incubator, a centrifuge, a baby incubator, a suction machine, an orbital blood rocker and an electrophoresis machine.
Akande, who said that the equipment which were fabricated with available local materials took cognisance of major challenges posed by power and water which had become endemic in the environment.
Commending the Biomedical Engineering department for the feat, Professor Akande said the board was impressed with the invention, innovation and practical demonstration of selfless service that has led to the production of this equipment.
In his speech, the Head of department, Mr. Samuel Akomolafe, explained that the department embarked on fabrication of the medical equipment as a result of the challenge posed by constant breakdown of imported equipment due to irregular power supply.
He also said that the equipment would reduce over-dependence on foreign medical products, adding that they were easy to operate and repair.
Mr. Akomolafe said that the fabrication of equipment would reduce unemployment and promote indigenous technology in the country.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
CRUTECH Workers Begin Indefinite Strike
Barely two week after the suspension of the three-month old national strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which disrupted activities in most government owned universities across the country, four industrial unions at the Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) have embarked on another indefinite strike.
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The action has thus dashed student's hope of resuming normal academic activities on campus after the strike that left them frustrated.
Members of the institution's branch of ASUU, Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) held a peaceful demonstration at the Calabar campus of the university to protest what they called the state government's insensitivity to the plight of staff of the institution.
The workers, clad in black and carrying green leaves and placards, marched round the university and its environs, chanting solidarity songs. Some of the placards read: “Tourism and Carnival without Education means nothing to Cross Riverians”; “CRUTECH staff are the Least Paid among Nigerian Universities”; “Remember, Tourism without Education is Useless”; “CRUTECH is not Part of Civil Service”; “Save CRUTECH from total collapse”. among others.
The protesters resolved to embark on an indefinite strike action until the state government met all their demands.
Presenting their demands to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Eneobong Eneobong, since they were denied access into the governor's office by law enforcement agents, Chairman of the CRUTECH branch of ASUU, Dr. Nsing Ogar, who spoke on behalf of all the unions, said they decided to embark on the strike because of poor remuneration, poor working environment, dilapidated infrastructures and the insensitivity of government to workers' demands.
He said the strike would be “indefinite and total”, adding that there would not be academic activities, senate meetings, sale of forms, writing of aptitude test and general administration at the institution.
Ogar said ASUU's grouse included non payment of the consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (UASS) approved and enjoyed in other universities since 2007; non payment of arrears of monetisation (October 2003 to December 2005); non payment of arrears of HATISS (16 months), non payment of arrears of Teaching practice/SIWES allowance (February to date); non payment of arrears of promotions to deserving staff and non payment of twelve and a half of UASS from October 2005 to December 2006, among others.
“As stakeholders, ASUU CRUTECH has demonstrated sufficient and uncommon understanding, support and patience in appreciation of our conceived desire to build a university of excellence that is among the first class and second to none in the country. However, these lofty goals can only come to fruition when the enabling environment is provided and guaranteed, where the academic workforce is sufficiently motivated to produce the desired output. It is just too unfortunate and unimaginable to note that ASUU, CRUTECH branch resolved to embark upon a local strike action immediately after the suspension of the national strike on Friday, October 9, 2009. The strike is definite and total”, he stressed.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
The action has thus dashed student's hope of resuming normal academic activities on campus after the strike that left them frustrated.
Members of the institution's branch of ASUU, Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) held a peaceful demonstration at the Calabar campus of the university to protest what they called the state government's insensitivity to the plight of staff of the institution.
The workers, clad in black and carrying green leaves and placards, marched round the university and its environs, chanting solidarity songs. Some of the placards read: “Tourism and Carnival without Education means nothing to Cross Riverians”; “CRUTECH staff are the Least Paid among Nigerian Universities”; “Remember, Tourism without Education is Useless”; “CRUTECH is not Part of Civil Service”; “Save CRUTECH from total collapse”. among others.
The protesters resolved to embark on an indefinite strike action until the state government met all their demands.
Presenting their demands to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Eneobong Eneobong, since they were denied access into the governor's office by law enforcement agents, Chairman of the CRUTECH branch of ASUU, Dr. Nsing Ogar, who spoke on behalf of all the unions, said they decided to embark on the strike because of poor remuneration, poor working environment, dilapidated infrastructures and the insensitivity of government to workers' demands.
He said the strike would be “indefinite and total”, adding that there would not be academic activities, senate meetings, sale of forms, writing of aptitude test and general administration at the institution.
Ogar said ASUU's grouse included non payment of the consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (UASS) approved and enjoyed in other universities since 2007; non payment of arrears of monetisation (October 2003 to December 2005); non payment of arrears of HATISS (16 months), non payment of arrears of Teaching practice/SIWES allowance (February to date); non payment of arrears of promotions to deserving staff and non payment of twelve and a half of UASS from October 2005 to December 2006, among others.
“As stakeholders, ASUU CRUTECH has demonstrated sufficient and uncommon understanding, support and patience in appreciation of our conceived desire to build a university of excellence that is among the first class and second to none in the country. However, these lofty goals can only come to fruition when the enabling environment is provided and guaranteed, where the academic workforce is sufficiently motivated to produce the desired output. It is just too unfortunate and unimaginable to note that ASUU, CRUTECH branch resolved to embark upon a local strike action immediately after the suspension of the national strike on Friday, October 9, 2009. The strike is definite and total”, he stressed.
UNIVERSITY OF BENIN
The University of Benin, in Benin City, Nigeria, is one of the country's major universities
History
The university was founded in 1970, and teaches in a broad range of subjects, including a medical school. It has a student enrollment of approximately 36,000.
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In 1985, Grace Alele-Williams became Nigeria's first female vice-chancellor when she was appointed to head the University of Benin. She served as its Vice-Chancellor until 1991.
The University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria was founded in 1970. It started as an Institute of Technology and was accorded the status of a full-fledged University by National Universities Commission (NUC) on 1 July 1971. In his Budget Speech in April, 1972, the then Military Governor of Mid-Western State, Col. S.O. Ogbemudia [then also Visitor to the University formally announced the change of the name of the Institute of Technology to the University of Benin.
At the onset, the university was situated at Ekewan Road. In 1972,a project to build a main campus at Ugbowo and Ekosodin commenced with Engineer Daniel Uhimwen as the director. Today, the main site is at Ugbowo but some courses are still offered at the Ekewan campus.
On 1 April 1975, the University, at the request of the State Government, was taken over by the Federal Government and became a Federal University. Today, the University has continued to grow from strength to strength with a number of Faculties, Departments, Institutes and Units.
Faculties and courses
Following NUC's directives, the University experimented with the Collegiate System in 1991/92 and 1992/93. However, in the light of new developments, the University reverted to the Faculty System in January 1994. Presently; the University essentially operates the Faculty System except for the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Basic Medical Sciences, and Institute of Child Health, which reverted back to the Collegiate System in August 1999, with a Provost as its administrative head. The Faculties as presently constituted are those of Agriculture, Arts, Education, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Physical sciences,Social Sciences,Management Sciences and the College of Medical Sciences.
The University offers courses at various levels: Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Diploma and Certificate. Presently, the total student enrolment stands at over 40,000 made up of both full-time and part-time students shared among the various Faculties.
Library
The University Main Library, John Harris Library, was named after the pioneer University Librarian, Prof John Harris, from New Zealand. The Library came into existence with the inception of the University in 1970 at the Ekehuan Road Campus John Harris Library is an Ultra-Modern building with central air–conditioning. The building is designed to seat about 700 readers. It provides photocopying, duplicating, laminating and binding services for readers. The library has now been computerized. Installation of other modern information technology facilities is on going. With the high increase in student population, the library has embarked on an expansion programme of Library system with the establishment of Faculty Libraries of which Ekehuan Road campus Library, Medical Library, Law, Engineering and Pharmacy Library are functional. John Harris Library extension is awaiting commissioning. The Library participates in inter-library co-operation among Nigerian academic libraries.
History
The university was founded in 1970, and teaches in a broad range of subjects, including a medical school. It has a student enrollment of approximately 36,000.
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for updates and information related to other schools.
In 1985, Grace Alele-Williams became Nigeria's first female vice-chancellor when she was appointed to head the University of Benin. She served as its Vice-Chancellor until 1991.
The University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria was founded in 1970. It started as an Institute of Technology and was accorded the status of a full-fledged University by National Universities Commission (NUC) on 1 July 1971. In his Budget Speech in April, 1972, the then Military Governor of Mid-Western State, Col. S.O. Ogbemudia [then also Visitor to the University formally announced the change of the name of the Institute of Technology to the University of Benin.
At the onset, the university was situated at Ekewan Road. In 1972,a project to build a main campus at Ugbowo and Ekosodin commenced with Engineer Daniel Uhimwen as the director. Today, the main site is at Ugbowo but some courses are still offered at the Ekewan campus.
On 1 April 1975, the University, at the request of the State Government, was taken over by the Federal Government and became a Federal University. Today, the University has continued to grow from strength to strength with a number of Faculties, Departments, Institutes and Units.
Faculties and courses
Following NUC's directives, the University experimented with the Collegiate System in 1991/92 and 1992/93. However, in the light of new developments, the University reverted to the Faculty System in January 1994. Presently; the University essentially operates the Faculty System except for the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Basic Medical Sciences, and Institute of Child Health, which reverted back to the Collegiate System in August 1999, with a Provost as its administrative head. The Faculties as presently constituted are those of Agriculture, Arts, Education, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Physical sciences,Social Sciences,Management Sciences and the College of Medical Sciences.
The University offers courses at various levels: Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Diploma and Certificate. Presently, the total student enrolment stands at over 40,000 made up of both full-time and part-time students shared among the various Faculties.
Library
The University Main Library, John Harris Library, was named after the pioneer University Librarian, Prof John Harris, from New Zealand. The Library came into existence with the inception of the University in 1970 at the Ekehuan Road Campus John Harris Library is an Ultra-Modern building with central air–conditioning. The building is designed to seat about 700 readers. It provides photocopying, duplicating, laminating and binding services for readers. The library has now been computerized. Installation of other modern information technology facilities is on going. With the high increase in student population, the library has embarked on an expansion programme of Library system with the establishment of Faculty Libraries of which Ekehuan Road campus Library, Medical Library, Law, Engineering and Pharmacy Library are functional. John Harris Library extension is awaiting commissioning. The Library participates in inter-library co-operation among Nigerian academic libraries.
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