Chinko Ekun Drops New Track 'Jen Le Yo' (Download)

YBNL Nation’s newly signed rapper Chinko Ekun has dropped a new track titled 'Jen Le Yo'.

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Oladipo Olamide Emmanuel a.k.a Chinko Ekun is an undergraduate of Obafemi Awolowo University studying Law. He got signed on to the YBNL by Olamide earlier this year.

There Will Be No Strike During Our Tenure -OAU SU PRO-elect

The just concluded Students' Union election ushered in new executives for the Union, in this exclusive interview with Olanrewaju Oyedeji, the PRO-elect of the Students' Union has made his stance known on several issues, especially those as regarding welfare of students on campus.

The PRO-elect who is a student of Department of International Relations has said the Union under Comrade Akande Omotayo a.k.a TY is a diplomatic and progressive Union that is not interested in strike action or disruption of academic activities. He however expressed dissatisfaction on ways issues have been handled over time, regarding them as 'erratic approach to issues especially when jawjaw is needed'.

Ojedokun Emmanuel also known as Immanuel kant said during his campaign he did not have a manifesto, rather he has an action plan, part of which includes proper dissemination of information to students. Information dissemination he said will be brought to the departmental level and every PRO of every department will work hand in hand with the PRO of the Union, by doing this dissemination of information will be made more effective. The PRO-elect was also of the opinion that the Association of Campus Journalist, OAU Chapter is meant to be part of the Students' Union in her struggle, although he admitted that the any journalism body is meant to be neutral but still retaining objective reportage as a watchword.

He also revealed efforts being made by the emerging Union leadership to ensure students' participation in Great Ife radio. According to him, the university management is scared that the students may hijack the radio station but the Students' Union has allayed that fear, very soon students will be able to work with the radio. Kant said the Manager of the radio station, Mr Damola Crown has agreed to these having reached a compromise with the PRO-elect.

On suspended students, the PRO-elect said efforts are in top gear to ensure that the suspended students are reinstated but there are efforts to make them withdraw their cases from the court which will ensure the case been approached diplomatically. Also in the course of the interview, Kant insisted that there will be no strike during the tenure of the emerging Akande Omotayo-led Union leadership as the welfare of students will be paramount. He also said personal interest will not be his watchword.


Photo Credit: Ojedokun Emmanuel's facebook wall

OAU SU President-elect Writes Management On Final Year Accommodation

The Great Ife Students' Union president-elect, Akande Omotayo a.k.a TY has called on the Obafemi Awolowo University management to rescind their decision on the school fees payment prerequisite for final year students to be able to request for accommodation.

Apart from the meeting held between representatives of the CEC-elect and the management on thesame issue, below is an open letter written by TY.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

OUR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS ARE LAMENTING!!!

We write to address a very crucial development as regards the accommodation for final year students and express our dismay over the compulsion of full payment of school fees on our students before they can apply for bed spaces.

A similar and inimical development is the constraining of the incoming students to paying the exorbitant school fees before they can also apply for accommodation.

The constituent of students on O.A.U campus are children of proletarians whose parents work within the austere economic condition for the state governments and bankrupt multi-nationals.

Most state governments are owning their workers 3-6 months salaries, even the federal government is faced with dwindling and incessant fluctuation of oil price, yet our students whose parents are members of this unpaid working class and are not exempted from this national economic quagmire are still mandated to pay in full before applying for accommodation.

OUR APPEAL IS THAT STUDENTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO APPLY FOR BED SPACE PRIOR TO PAYING THE SCHOOL FEES, AT LEAST IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF RESUMPTION.

Our parents’ pockets have not recuperated from the astronomical increase in school fee which was shockingly and undemocratic-ally enforced on us against our audible refusal and the peaceful agitations.

Most students who can afford the immediate payment in school fees are those that can as well get a decent accommodation in town. The students who will be desperately needing campus accommodation are mostly the ones who may find it hard to pay school their school fees in the first few weeks of resumption.

We implore the university management to see to the reversing of the moralities for bed space application to the old status-quo where finalist can apply for accommodations without school fees payment.

We will as besiege for the demystification of the school fees regime that will be paid by students as constant alterations of school fees regime is observed on e-portal. However, the management should take cognizance of the proposed 3000naira reduction for last session and this session.

We will be much delighted if the management can oblige our simple request.

Thanks
OMOTAYO AKANDE
PRESIDENT-ELECT
STUDENTS’ UNION

For
GREAT IFE STUDENTS

ALUTA CONTINUA, VICTORIA ASCERTA!!!

OAU & 9 Other Schools Get N16b ACE Project Grant

At least 10 Nigerian universities under the Nigerian African Centers of Excellence (ACE) will receive over N16 billion ($1.2billion) grants from the World Bank.

The universities are – Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Benue State University, Makurdi, Bayero University, Kano, University of Benin, University of Jos, Ahmadu Bello University, Redeemer’s University, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Port Harcourt, and African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.

The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, who made the disclosure the official signing of ACE Performance Contract with the 10 universities in Abuja, warned the management of the institutions to allow ACE project team to concentrate on the objectives of the project.

He insisted that all changes to the team must be cleared with the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The minister said government would not hesitate to reallocate funds from non-performing ACEs to those that are doing well saying, “it is your responsibility to work in harmony with your team to ensure that they perform optimally.”

Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, who is also the Chairman, Steering Committee of the project, said for 30 years Nigeria was backward in terms of academic research and publications.


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NYSC 2015 Batch A Call Up Letter Is Now Online

This is to inform the general public especially Great Ife graduates that the NYSC Batch A call up letter is now available online for download. Visit www.nysc.org.ng and click 'already have an account' and enter your details. Goodluck

OAU Management Postpones Resumption For 2014/2015 Academic Session

The Obafemi Awolowo University management has rescheduled the 2014/2015 resumption date.

A release from the office of  registrar OAU dated 29th April, 2015 states  that the new resumption date for freshmen for 2014/2015 session is Sunday 17th May, 2015 and Stalites is the 31st May, 2015. Lectures commence June 1 2015.

 

Does The Exam Really End? – Pope Jay

For those who have seen the teachers of the basic schools prepare when they have promotional examinations and some other exams, doesn’t it ever push you to wonder when the exams all end? We all get that “ordinary sign board, I no go read” syndrome after writing most major exams and I have often wondered if this feat is quite achievable considering the fact that reading is more of a subconscious activity and we often confuse it with studying which is more conscious and voluntary.

So you write WASSCE, NECO SSCE, UTME and POST UTME and you start to feel as though your exam days are over but in actual sense if you pass these exams, you are headed to one of the “House of Exams” and if your “House of Exams” happen to be Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife…Congratulations! Your Work has just begun!


You finally graduate from school (either by crook or credit), and it seems as though the exams are over but then you either choose to further your education (go back to the “House of Exams”), get a job (where you will be examined directly or indirectly from time to time) or become an entrepreneur (where unseen factors are examining you, your failure/success then determine whether you are another Warren Buffet or just another passerby). To cut the long story short, the exams don’t end. The examiners, scope, venues and forms of the exam; these are the things that change most times.


Having established this fact, an inference that can be drawn is; if the exams don’t end, the learning cannot too (except a man wants to keep on failing). However, one beautiful fact about learning is that unlike studying it does not only entail reading and so if you are not much of a reader (which you should also work on), there are other ways to learn that may seem more “interesting”; listening to audio messages on the topic, seeing demonstrative videos etc. By doing these things, you can actually develop yourself on a topic without opening a lot of books and on the long run you are preparing for one exam you might write in the future.

Most, if not all, of us Great Ife students just concluded exams and are presently recuperating and recovering lost blood but I simply want to implore and admonish us that in the midst of our eating and drinking, we should try to learn whatever we can. That movie you saw today, the book you started yesterday, the radio show you listened to might be the basis of your exam tomorrow. BE PREPARED!


Pope Jay