Discussion Thread For 2014/2015 OAU Predegree Applicants

Let all those seeking for admission into the OAU Predegree Programme for the 2014/2015 academic session meet here.

OAU Fee Hike Novella (Episode 9)

Ah,see this freshers o,them dress like say na party them dey go, well I remember last year when i also gained admission, I wore my Christmas cloth to school, i wanted to look so good,may his soul rest in peace, my Dad even told me that i should beware of girls with the way am dressed,Tunde said while conversing with his new friend Ayo. Ayo also didn't go home,he stayed back in school as he said that, there is no point going home when his school is on fire. Na you know o, them too go dey form next year, saying same thing you are saying, Ayo replied Tunde.

Campus was agog with the arrival of fresh students for the 2013/14 session. Sodiq an English student who sat close to Tunde made a joke of the expensive cars bringing the students to campus,he said; 'You now say make management no increase the fee,see as cars dey flow in', everybody including Tunde laughed at this joke.Angola hall now Tunde's former hostel,was beehive with the fresh students who were carrying loads. This girls sha,see how them they pack food stuff,like say dem feed their roomates, Tunde said refering to the Mozambique girls.

Have you not noticed something?Ayo asked Tunde,what is that? Tunde replied. The number of students here now is low compared to last year, it seems people really are finding it hard to pay their school fee, well i share their pain,Ayo concluded. Tunde also told Ayo that he observed same thing but didnt want to be the whistle blower. I just hope they reduce the fee,or return it to status quo,if not so, students no go gree o, Tunde added.

Just then Tunde's Phone rang...


 The writer of this story, Oyedeji Olanrewaju is a Part 2 student of  the Department of Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo University. You can reach Oyedeji through his e-mail: Olanrewajusamuel8@gmail.com

Immediate Resumption And Fees Reduction Top Students' Request As SU Leaders Meet With The Management Today

Students have continued to show their willingness and desire to resume back to classes in no time. In responses to the question asked by the Senior Special Assistant to the NANS Zone D Coordinator on Media and Publicity, Comrade Adesoji Gabriel O., Ife students demand for the immediate re-opening of the University and a reasonable reduction in the hiked fees.

Below was the question and responses so far:

QUESTION 

Adesoji Gabriel Angelgabby

Great Ife students, As NANS Zone D set to meet with your school management tomorrow what do you demand?

Note: Your opinion is highly needed as it's the only means to get the sincere and genuine wish of OAU students as we prepare to meet Your school management tomorrow.

Adesoji Gabriel. O (AngelGabby)
S. S. A Media and Publicity to Nans Zone D Coordinator

RESPONSES 

• Adewuyi Julius Adesoji:  resumption is what we want.
• Oyeniran Christopher: Resumption and reduction in fee!!Total reversal may not be possible.
• Peter Onoriode: There should be a REDUCTION instead of total reversal of d fees and RESUMPTION most importantly
• Qhordrie Olukayode Ajibade Plato: At least, another #5000 Reduction. Then, resumption before September. Then, on the part of the fresher's Fees, it should not be this expensive next session. We forgive the management over this one they have done. Next session, the freshers' fees too should be reduced.
• Oduwobi Yorisola: reduction.resumption nd d skul mgt shud let us knw if it plans 2 increase fees again nd @wat rate xo we dnt find ourselves in similar crises wer we'll b caught unaweres.abi wetin una tnk?
• Akanfe Olugbenga Diamond: #BringBackOurMoney
• Ogunwale Goodness: #Voiceofthepeople.... #cmonletsresume
• Afolabi Mayowa LordMayor: May the LORD show u the way uhm #ALLZWELL
• Alfred Gbadebo Ibojo: why is oau currently more expensive dan it's conterpart like u.I, unilag, uniben despite being on top of subvention. Ask Omole dis questn and demand for reversal
• Tiamiyu Nurudeen Adewale: pls all we want is meaningful reduction and resumption dis month. pls u guys shud speak in one voice we all support u guys with prayers. God bless Nass

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• Umosor Paul:  instant resumption tomorrow. we bone d money bt must nt repeat itself nxt time.
• Alagbe Emmanuel Oluwabukunmi: Resumption.
• Akinniyi Oluwasegun: -immediate resumption and reduction if the school fee can't be reversed totally -Non-victimization of the student union Excos and activists, the protest was executed by Great Ifes and not the aforementioned individuals.
• Olubanji Engels Oluwole: The point is this: if management has a proposal, let them reopen the school first for us to discuss and have a resolution. Bring their proposal to the Congress, the Congress started the struggle, and only that general gathering of Great Ife Students can end it... either reversal or no reversal... not facebook
• Adesoji Gabriel Angelgabby: Opinions are registered and keenly observing
• Banjris Aloma: all we want is that school open first later we listen to their offer and bring it to the generality of Great Ife student to take their position and have a way-forward.
• Adedokun Aminat Jenrade: Resumption n reduction

   Olajide Aaron Olayinka: #resumption #resumption #resumption #resumption #resumption #resumption
• Tiamiyu Nurudeen Adewale: pls I support what olubanji said, let resume pls for God sake reversal or no reversal and latter we find a resolution among our selves. God bless u
• Gbenga Desire Bankole: TOTAL REVERSAL of staylite's fee, reduction of freshers fee. . . . . + resumption and installmental payment. Dats wat we want, even though our wants may be too demanding buh dey started it with dier overdoing d increment. And tell him to be a democratic ruler, he shuld carry us along and stop treating us like we r slaves, we need to be informed abt most of dier actions cos we are a major stakeholder. If dey cant totally reverse cos of ego, dey shuld reduce to d bearest minimum.
• Adesoji Gabriel Angelgabby: Opinions are registered and keenly observing
• Olajide Aaron Olayinka: Reduction is also vague_ 'm realistic. A mode of payment like the pay in two semester stuff; and resumption this month.
• Olajide Aaron Olayinka: Resumption and two-semester mode of payment.

  
  
• MC Austin Laffingas: I want to go for service from part3. #shikena
• Gbenga Desire Bankole: wats ur own wif wat i want? Shebi u av said urs
• Adesoji Gabriel Angelgabby: Like Resumption takes it all? Then others follow... Pray for us, No going back on resumption.
• Olajide Aaron Olayinka: We can't afford to blow this_ if you say refunding/reversal/reduction_ those demands won't work. So, resumption and 2-semester mode of payments for those who can't afford it at once.
• Gbenga Desire Bankole: i feel dier pain buh dey shuld try sacrificing for dier mates wu r @ home and cant pay. Y did we start d struggle in d first place 
• Kayode Olusola Asiri: D major tin is dat we resume as fast as possible, but it would be nice if d fee can be reduced so at least we'll av a consolation for spending about 2 months at home, cos its really frustrating.. #personal
• Tiamiyu Nurudeen Adewale: most of the freshers were not part of d struggle, pls let us resume and resolution comes next.
• Bello Muideen Adeyemi: a reasonable reductn 4 doz dat havnt paid and d skul can ovalook doz who hav paid.
• Gbenga Desire Bankole: its rili awkward hw sum ppl wuld tell us b4 d struggle started dat we'll go home and come back to pay d fees and nw dey are all clamouring for just resumption so dat dey'll tell ppl dat dey've said it b4. NANS, we will never pay dat amount o, nt after sending us home for 2months and still counting, we all are nt shameless o
• Victor Jimcy Oluwafolajimi: Total reversal indeed...Una don drink bobo!
  Letz resume abeg ooo... A year at home and still counting!
  Make those excos no go d meeting dey do agidi ooo... Resumption is my greatest concern!
• Ayo Stephen: earliest resumption sud be top on d agenda nd a reasonable reduction... the total reversal for me is nt feasible nd i feel we sudnt be too greedy, atleast from my point of view if they can reduce by 50%, majority of us here will be ready to resume by wednessday. There sudnt be victimization of those who avent paid, i belong to dat category. if we can ave all these we re ready to go.
• Moses Ever-young Jackson: #Resumption

  
  
• Ayuba Mojoyinoluwa Olayiwola: Total reversal.Simple!

  The Students' Union leaders of OAU and members of NANS Zone D are expected to meet with the management later today in what is aimed at resolving every issue and finding a way forward.

Is Our Isolation Centre Ready On Campus?

Something that bothers me a lot ever since I got my reasonable thinking cap on is how the so called educated ones cheaply fall victim of the education they have allegedly received. After all, you will ask yourself if these ones can be regarded as Educated Illeterate or what they termed as the education they received was Illeterate Education?

It will surprise you that many of our Youths out there who have passed through the academia do somethings that you will continue to beg your reasoning if they ever stepped into a tertiary institution. As we have it in the younger settings, so also in the older settings. Many of those who even impact these knowledge(Educators) still find it very difficult to apply them at most of the needing periods and you may bear me witness that whenever you try to find out from them why these things are like that, several excuses abound ranging from the kind of non-working environment they find themselves to several other unfavourable conditions.

It is now over two weeks that Nigeria recorded her first mortality courtesy of the deadly Ebola Disease that crept into our territory unaware or probably due to our negligence, not longer we had the first citizen death which was that of one of the Nurses that attended to Late Patrick Sawyer, the initial dead. Now, according to the Minister for Heath in his latest press statement, we already have 10 suspected cases of infected persons and no fewer than 100 Nigerians who have directly or indirectly associated with Sawyer during his short-lived visit to Nigeria are on the watch list of his Ministry. These ones are carefully monitored fearing the probability of them not to have contracted the disease.

Without much ado, Ebola is no longer a joke and the fact is that this disease is not something that should be handled with carefree attitude or negligence both by our leaders or we citizens ourselves. Fortunately unfortunately, Ebola is not the disease of the Poor so to say. Any infected rich that is not lucky enough may not last longer than 21 days the most before kicking the bucket.  Kudos to some State Governments and even the Federal Government who have reasonably shown concern not only by words but by putting necessary infrastructures in place to avoid the further spread of Ebola.

I neither live in Lagos nor see myself visiting Lagos anytime soon but I am a card carrying and authentic student of the Nigeria's best tertiary institution, Obafemi Awolowo University where fruit Bats live with us and interact with us in various ways. This ranging from dropping their faeces on passerby to making melodious sounds that can cool the brain in any hot afternoon. I am not trying to create any tension here but the earlier we understand and accept facts about our zone, the better for us. The perculiarity of our University campus is something that tells the deaf and obvious to the blind that we are not fully fortified against this so much publicized disease.

In response to the above reality, the university management commendably sometimes last week released a statement on the Ebola virus. We really appreciate the school authority for its prompt and needed response but the question is this, beyond ordinary statement, are there precautionary measures already put in place to check and arrest this issue peradventure we have any reported cases? I am happy that the University may be re-opened in less than three weeks from now but the fear of Ebola is something that continues to rigmarole in my mind and bang my brain hard.

I am not a medical student but I can read, hear and see what the Lagos State Government is doing in terms of effective measures been put in place to prevent and contain the Ebola outbreak. Even though I doubt if the number of the entire fruit bats in Lagos than surpass what we have on our campus. Isolation centres are been built, Emergency lines are given to the public, aggressive media sensitization on how to prevent any eventuality, all these among many others. Is this thesame in our own case? Lagos is a State Government but OAU is a school. Yes, we understand that but let us not forget there are little things the increased school fees of the students can do to save the precious lifes of the university community occupants from this disease. Recently, the President declared a National State of Emergency and doled out a whooping sum of N1.9bn to fight the spread of Ebola, OAU is definitely a susceptible zone and I believe our management should try and present their case before the Federal Government so as to be financed in the war against Ebola on OAU campus.

I will not like to dwell much on this Call To Action for now because I believe we have learned and right thinking minds in our University government but if at the end of it all, we still suffer from what we know, understand and could prevent, then the outside world will laugh at us and deservedly call us the Educated Illiterates!

Late Registration Attracts N2,000 Extra Charge -Management

The penalty charge for students who are yet to pay the increased school fees is now N2,000. When I logged in this afternoon to check if there is any development on our e-portal page, I noticed one of the drop down menu in the 'Type of Payment' is 'Late Registration' and when you load out the slip, the charge there is N2,000 excluding bank charges.

The Students' Union leaders had earlier hinted students of their proposed meeting with the school management tomorrow together with members of the NANS Zone-D.

Your reaction?

Seminar On Sensing Temperature With Heat

Kofi A.A. Makinwa is a Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he leads a group that designs precision analog circuits, ΣΔ modulators, and smart sensors. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, an M.E.E. degree from the Philips International Institute and a Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology, both in The Netherlands.

From 1989 to 1999 he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories. He holds 22 patents, has (co)-authored over 180 technical papers and 8 books, and has given invited talks and tutorials at several international conferences. Dr. Makinwa is a (co)-recipient of 12 best paper awards, and is a recipient of the Simon Stevin Gezel award from the Dutch Technology Foundation. At the 60th anniversary of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), he was recognized as one of its top ten contributing authors.

He is an IEEE fellow, an alumnus of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and an elected member of the AdCom of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

Sensing Temperature with Heat
Temperature sensors are everywhere! They are used in CPUs for thermal management, in DRAMs to control refresh rates, and in MEMS frequency references for temperature compensation, to name a few high volume applications. Conventional temperature sensors are based on bipolar transistors, and must be trimmed to compensate for the inaccuracy (about 3C) caused by process spread. However, trimming is a time consuming process that significantly increases manufacturing costs.

This talk will discuss recent research on temperature sensors based on the thermal diffusivity of silicon, i.e. the rate at which heat diffuses through silicon. Due to the purity of IC-grade silicon, such temperature sensors achieve untrimmed inaccuracies of 0.2C, which is much better than that of conventional sensors.

The seminar holds on Tuesday 12th August, 2014 at PY 202 (White House) by 12:00pm

Tecno H7 Full Specification, Features and Price

General Information
2G Network	GSM 900 / 1800
3G Network	HSPDA 2100
4G Network	No
SIM	Dual mini SIM
Status	Available May 2014
	Body
Dimensions	143.5 x 72.7 x 8.75
Keyboard	Touchscreen
Colors	White, Black
Cover	Plastic
	Display
Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen with 256,000 colors
Size	5.0 inches, 540 x 960 pixels, 220 pixels per inch (PPI)
	Memory And OS
Card slot	MicroSD, up to 32GB
Internal	4GB
OS	Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
Processors	1.3GHz quad-core CPU, MediaTek MT6582 chipset
RAM	1GB
	Audio
Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker	Yes
Audio port	3.5mm jack
	Connectivity
2G	GPRS – up to 85.6 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G	Up to 7.2 mbs downlink; Up to 5.76 mbs uplink
4G	No
WIFI	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, WIFI hotspot, Wi-Fi direct
Bluetooth	Version 3.0
GPS	A-GPS
NFC	No
USB	MicroUSB v2.0
	Camera
Primary	8MP, up to 2448×3264-pixel pictures camera, HDR, Geo-tagging, auto focus camera with LED flash
Video	Yes
Secondary	2MP, up to 1600×1200-pixel pictures
	Battery
Capacity	2020mAh Li-Ion battery
Stand-by	Up to 200 hours
Talk time	Up to 6 hours 30 minutes
Music play	N/a
	Other Features
Sensors	Accelerometer
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser	HTML5
Java	No
	- SNS integration – MP4/MPEG4/H.263/H.264 player MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player - Document viewer - FM radio - Image viewer and editor - Voice memo/dial/command - Predictive text input - Google Search, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Opera Mini, Google Talk
	Price
Price level	About 30,000 Naira