OAU Releases 2014/2015 Admission Cut-Off Marks

The admission cut-off marks for the 2014/2015 academic year of some faculties of the Obafemi Awolowo University have been made public. In some faculties, it is pasted in the Dean's Secretary office.

Below are the cut-off marks.

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY

2014/2015 ADMISSION EXERCISE

FIRST CHOICE CUT-OFF POINTS

FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Management & Accounting	253.0	248.5	251.0	240.5	245.5	241.5	244.0	i. Kogi(2) – 244.5 ii. Kwara(1) – 238.5 iii. Benue(1) – 235.5 iv. Kano(1) – 222.5	64.4
International Relations	233.0	226.5	229.0	212.0	209.0	220.0	211.0	Ebonyi(1) – 222.0	60.0
Public Administration	219.0	206.5	202.0	210.5	214.0	216.5	207.5	-	60.3
Local Government Studies	210.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	-	60.0

FACULTY OF LAW
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Law	291.5	286.0	289.5	285.5	289.5	286.5	288.0	Kogi – 277.5 Kwara – 286 Benue – 280.5 Bayelsa – 277.0 Cross Rivers – 279.5 Enonyi – 287.0 Rivers – 255.0 Taraba – 277.5 Nasarawa – 269.0	69.1

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Medicine	275.0	274.0	274.5	274.0	275.0	274.0	274.0	271.5	1st & 2nd Choice-             80
Dentistry	260.0	254.5	256.0	257.0	254.5	254.5	254.5	250.0	1st – 75.7 2nd – 77.5
Medical Rehabilitations	248.0	246.5	245.0	245.0	245.0	245.5	245.0	238.0	1st – 70.5 2nd – 74.1
Nursing	249.5	245.0	246.0	239.0	242.5	247.5	239.0	235.0	1st – 71.0 2nd – 75.1

FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Agricultural Engineering	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Chemical Engineering	250	249	248	242	244	248	235	225	66
Civil Engineering	247	235	240	236	234	238	236	216	65
Computer Engineering	250	248	250	228	245	242	241	233	61
Computer Economics	217	206	200	200	212	200	200	200	66
Computer Mathematics	250	250	249	250	250	250	250	245	69
Elect/Elect Engineering	252	257	250	236	248	249	238	240	69
Food Engineering	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Food Sci. & Technology	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Material Science & Eng.	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Mechanical Engineering	248	241	248	242	242	240	233	237	66

FACULTY OF PHARMACY
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Pharmacy	252	240	243.5	240	240	240	240	230	73.2

FACULTY OF ARTS
COURSE	MERIT	CATCHMENT AREA	ELDS	PD
Drama	269.5	259.0	248.0	60.7
English	270.5	265.0	233.0	60
Literature in English	253.0	233.5	200.0	62
French	259.0	236.0	200.0	60
German	249.5	207.5	200.0	60
Portuguese	226.0	200.0	200.0	60
History & His./Inter. Rel.	252.0	242.5	200.0	60
Linguistics	258.5	251.5	200.0	60.8
Yoruba	200.0	200.0	200.0	60
Music	236.0	223.5	200.0	60
Philosophy	260.0	249.5	200.0	60.3
Religious Studies	239.0	200.0	200.0	60

FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Course	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Education/ English	275	259	273.5	259	270	272	271	240	60
Education/Yoruba	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Fine Arts	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Music	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/CRS	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/French	220	215	215	215	215	215	215	200	60
Education/History	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Economics	240	238	232	239	210	224	224	200	60
Education/Geography	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Political Science	243	230.5	221.5	230	230	230	230	215	60
Education/Social Studies	208	205	205	205	205	205	205	200	60
Education/Language Arts	210	205	205	205	205	205	205	205	60
Education/Guidance & Counselling	212	205	206	206	208	206	207	200	60
Physical & Health Education	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Biology	211	205	205	205	205	205	205	200	60
Education/Chemistry	212	205	205	205	205	205	205	200	60
Education/Mathematics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Education/Physics	215	205	205	205	205	205	205	200	60
Education/Maths/Integrated Science	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
Course	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Agric. Economics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Animal Science	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Agric. Extension & Rural Sociology	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Family Health & Nutrition	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Crop Production & Protection	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Soil Science	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
Course	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Applied Geophysics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.8
Biochemistry	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.2
Botany	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.1
Chemistry	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.6
Engineering Physics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	62.7
Geology	236	200	230	200	200	228	200	200	60.1
Industrial Chemistry	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.5
Mathematics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	65.7
Statistics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	63.5
Microbiology	234	230	228	228	225	225	225	215 Varies	65.1
Physics	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.0
Zoology	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.0

FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN & MANAGEMENT
Course	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Architecture	229	219	219.5	200	200	214	228.5	214 Varies	69.7
Building	214	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.4
Urban & Reg. Planning	208.5	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	62.6
Quantity Surveying	215.5	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.4
Fine Arts	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	61.2
Estate Management	218.5	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.1

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course	MERIT	CATCHMENT						ELDS	PD
		OYO	OSUN	EKITI	ONDO	OGUN	LAGOS
Demography & Soc. Statistics	209	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60
Economics	271.5	258	269	262	265.5	267	268	Varies	68
Geography	216	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	60.6
Political Science	268	263.5	258	255.5	259	260	239	208 Varies	60.7
P.P.E	257	248.5	248.5	240.5	248	248	248	Varies	60.6
Psychology	244	239	241.5	235.5	242	228	215.5	Varies	60
Sociology & Anthropology	242.5	234	237	235.5	234	230	224	Varies	62.7

2014/15 OAU Direct Entry: Submission Of Transcript To End Soon

Following continued enormous requests by our friends and applicants here for details about the 2014/2015 admission process through the Direct Entry(DE), we checked at the Admission Office for any advertorial on this but none was out. We proceeded to ask the staffs in the office and we were told that OAU is currently accepting applications and it will close soon. How soon? We were not given any definite timeline upon enquiry.

According to one applying OND holder who was also there to submit his application, the required documents to be submitted include:

1.) O'Level Result
2.) JAMB Application Slip
3.) Transcript and other probable document.

OAU Fees Hike: Referendum Holds Today At All Faculties

This is to inform all students that the Electoral Commission will be holding a Referendum tomorrow(Thursday 4th September, 2014) by 9am to 12pm at various basements of each faculty across the walls of Great ife, Osun state.

This is coming sequel to the resolution of the parliament that there should be a referendum across all Faculties.

Part 1 students are also eligible for this all important exercise.

Note: The Outcome of the Referendum will play a role in the determination of the next line of action on the fee hike.

Announcer: OAU SU Press Committee for the Office of the Students' Electoral Commission, OAU SU.

ERC Demands Immediate Student Suspension Reversal

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) National Coordinator, Hassan Taiwo Soweto, and National Secretary, Michael Ogundele issued a press statement condemning, “...the latest wave of victimization of student activists and leaders" at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife by the university management and called for the "immediate and unconditional" recall of 8 suspended student activists.


According to the press release, the eight suspended student activists are members of the ERC and were suspended indefinitely due to their stance against the University's “intervention in the affairs of the just-restored students' union" and the "outrageous hike in school fees” in May and June 2014.

The National Coordinator and Secretary stated that “scores of other students,” were placed on what they quote the University as terming "suspended rustication" and "probation" because of the student’s roles in protests against school fee increases. The statement continues: “The management hinged the indefinite suspension of the eight students on a purported pending police investigation into an unsubstantiated but malicious allegation of abduction.”

Describing the University management’s position, Soweto and Ogundele write: “Clearly the management, which sees a virile, democrati, and an independent union as a threat to its manner of administration, had since marked these activists down for punishment for their principled roles in the campaign for the restoration of the students' union. It was this campaign that forced the management to reverse the undemocratic ban on student unionism.”

“Obviously, the management had the plan to hike school fees the following session, and saw the emergence of a vibrant student leadership as a hindrance to this agenda,” the statement asserts.

“Therefore, it is no surprise that the management is trying to make scapegoats among students, by handpicking the most vibrant activists for punishment over collective action. Surely, the management is aware that mass protests are breaking out in many campuses against fee hike, while students of Lagos State University (LASU) won total reversal of criminally hiked fees. Therefore, this latest wave of victimization is aimed at beheading the struggle in OAU. This approach failed in LASU, it will fail in OAU.”

In their statement, Soweto and Ogundele single out one individual for probing and reprimand regarding the fee hike writing, "It is the Tale Omole-led university management that has mismanaged the meager resources of the university,” they allege.

However, characterizing the fee hike as a national problem, the ERC statement continues, “As much as we agree that there is chronic underfunding of education by the Nigeria's capitalist government, we hold that students and their parents should not be made to bear the brunt of this, as the country is stupendously rich enough to fund quality education at all levels. We also believe that university and its resources should be administered through democratic process.”

The ERC closes their press release demanding that university management "unconditionally and immediately" reverse the suspension order on the student activists and "end its culture of victimization and witchhunt".

"This draconian method of killing the messenger instead of addressing the message is absurd and unbefitting of a university system, where dissenting ideas and criticisms are supposed to be tolerated. We call on well meaning Nigerians, activists, workers' unions, and other student organizations to prevail on the OAU management to recall the eight activists and end every other attacks on democratic rights in OAU," they concluded.



Source: Sahara Reporters

Boko Haram Sponsorship: We Have Been Vindicated – APC

By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA–Following the revelations of alleged Boko Haram sect sponsors by the Australian negotiator, Mr. Stephen Davies, the All Progressive Congress, APC, yesterday declared that it has been vindicated.

The party also stated that the development has now revealed that members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and political allies of President Goodluck Jonathan are the true sponsors of the Sect.

To substantiate its claim, the party played a newsreel footage of a conversation between Davies and a broadcaster from Arise Television in London where the former mentioned the alleged sponsors.
It particularly called the President to handover the former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff whose name was mentioned to the International Court of Justice, ICC, for immediate prosecution.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja, the national chairman of the party, Mr. John Oyegun said that PDP has politicized Boko Haram.

He said: “Dr. Stephen Davis, a man hired by the President Jonathan-led Federal Government to negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of the Chibok girls decided to speak out, believing the best way to tackle the insurgency is to expose the sponsors. And who are they? On international television last Thursday, and as you have just seen and heard, he named former Borno Governor Ali Modu Sheriff and a former Army Chief, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, as the sponsors of Boko Haram.

“The truth is finally out. We have been vindicated. We have no hand in the Boko Haram insurgency. The raison d’etre of our party is the well-being and security of Nigerians

“The sponsors of Boko Haram are within the PDP and the Presidency. They are known friends of President Jonathan. He knows them and they know him.

“The man who exposed these Boko Haram sponsors is a Jonathan-appointed Negotiator. He has no axe to grind, neither does he have any motive to shield the APC or portray the PDP/Presidency in bad light. In fact, if he had any sympathy at all, it is for the man who hired him, President Jonathan.

“We have said it all along. Boko Haram was politicized purely for one reason, and one reason only: To be used as a trump card for President Jonathan to win another term. For that strategy to work, the APC, which they see as the only stumbling block to the PDP’s victory in 2015, must be maligned and labeled. Gullible, duplicitous and self-serving politicians like Femi Fani-Kayode swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker, and started parroting the glaring lies. PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh, an obvious pawn on the chess board, followed suit, labelling a party that comprises Nigerians of all ethnic and religious hue a Janjaweed and Islamic party. Now he is stewing in his own juice.

“Now that the cat has been let out of the bag and the real sponsors of Boko Haram have been exposed, we hope President Jonathan will summon the courage to do the right thing: Hand over the identified Boko Haram sponsors to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation and prosecution.

“There is no doubt that Boko Haram has committed crimes against humanity in its scorched-earth campaign against unharmed citizens, and the most appropriate body to investigate and try the sect’s sponsors is the ICC.

“According to Article 17 of the Rome Statute that set up the ICC, and to which Nigeria is signatory, the ICC is a court of last resort, expected to exercise its jurisdiction only if states themselves are unwilling or unable genuinely to investigate and prosecute international crimes.”

According to Oyegun, President Jonathan should not feign ignorance of Sheriff’s involvement in the Boko Haram’s activities.

“President Jonathan cannot pretend not to know the alleged role that Ali Modu Sheriff has played in the establishment and growth of Boko Haram, yet he never allowed the man to even be questioned by any of the security agencies under his control. All through his time with our Party, every time they accused us of sponsoring Boko Haram, on the basis of his presence, we challenged them if they had evidence to arrest any of our members who is suspected to be a sponsor, they never did. They dared not, because Sheriff was their agent. Even if he had remained in the APC after we democratically encouraged him to go, they would still not have arrested him,” he said.

Reminding the president that as the Commander-in- Chief, “the buck stops on his desk,” Oyegun recalled attempts by the PDP to cover up its involvement, assuring Nigerians that now the truth had finally prevailed, APC would ensure that it would not be swept under the carpet.

“In a rare moment of truth, a top official of the Jonathan Administration, no less a personality than the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, situated the Boko Haram problem within the PDP. Shortly thereafter he was fired, and he later died in controversial circumstances. Still we waited.

“They distorted and misrepresented the statements made by our leader, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to try to convince the world that he was indeed the main sponsor of Boko Haram. They continued to echo the same slander about Gen. Buhari that was started by Presidential Spokesman Reuben Abati in 2011, and for which he and his cohorts eventually begged to settle out of court and to apologize to the General. Still we waited.

“Nigerians can rest assured that the APC will not allow this issue to be swept under the carpet,” Oyegun stated.


Source: Vanguard News