News Round (July 19-24): Top Headlines On OAU Peeps This Week

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Important Notice To OAU Fresh Students
If you partook in the ICT training for Fresh Undergraduate students that held between May 30 and July 3, 2015 at the University ICT Centre, you are required to...(Continue reading)

LIVE UPDATES: Management-NASU Face-off
Good day Great Ife community, OAU Peeps News Agency brings to you the current situation as it stands now in Obafemin Awolowo University on the face-off between the University management and the NASU...(Continue reading)

OAU Post-UTME Form Is Finally Out, See Details On Application & Schedule
The 2015 Post-Utme Screening Exercise of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife will take place on Saturday, August 8, 2015 by 12noon in various centres in Ile-Ife. All candidates are...Continue reading)

NASU Suspends Demonstrations, Resumes Work
A yet to be firmly established report has it that the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) has called off her demonstrations and thus directed her members to...(Continue reading)

INTECU Partners IBM To Train Students On Cyber Security
The Information Technology and Communication Unit (INTECU), Obafemi Awolowo University has announced its partnership with the...(Continue reading)

NASU Strike: OAU Students Advised To Delay Resumption
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife have been advised by her Students' Union to observe the outcome of Tuesday and Wednesday's face-off between the University Management and...(Continue reading)


22 Winners Emerge During 2015 OYA Awards
Full List of Winners
Most outstanding organisation of the year – AIESEC
Most outstanding compere/MC of the year – MC Headies
Most outstanding...(Continue reading)

OAU Gate Militarized Ahead Of NASU-Management Tuesday Showdown
Just like most students have tagged it, if you call it 'impending mess', you may be right. If you call it a 'show down', you may be right and if you call it a 'face-off', you may be...(Continue reading)

JAMB 2015: 7,817 Applied To Study Medicine In OAU
If the statistics on the website of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boards (JAMB) is anything to reckon with, no fewer than 7,817 students...(Continue reading)

OAU Battles ABU, Others At Olumide Oyedeji Intercollegiate Basketball Championship
All is set for the Eight-Team Olumide Oyedeji Intercollegiate Basketball Championship billed scheduled for Mobolaji Okoya-Thomas Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, from 19 to 27 September...(Continue reading)

SU Leadership Reverses Stance, Urge Students To Resume
The leadership of the Obafemi Awolowo University Students' Union has reversed its initial position that students should observe the outcome of yesterday and today's face-off between...(Continue reading)

Tiwa Savage And Spouse Welcome Son
According to Linda Ikeji's blog, Tiwa Savage just welcomed her first child in London - a son. Congrats...(Continue reading)


Pastor Kumuyi's Visit To Ile-ife Postponed Indefinitely
The earlier announced visit of the popular Nigerian televangelist and preacher, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi to Ile-Ife scheduled for Tuesday...(Continue reading)

The Chemist's Shop (Complete) -Pope Jay
The time space between my admission into the great ife and my resumption into the institution is a part of my life I may never forget...(Continue reading)

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Breaking News: NASU Suspends Demonstrations, Resumes Work

A yet to be firmly established report has it that the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) has called off her demonstrations and thus directed her members to resume work.


Efforts to confirm the development proved abortive as the phone of the NASU chairman was off. However, the Students' Union PRO, Ojedokun Emmanuel a.k.a Immanuel Kant via one of the Union platforms confirmed the report.

Tiwa Savage And Spouse Welcome Son

According to Linda Ikeji's blog, Tiwa Savage just welcomed her first child in London - a son. Congrats to them.

The Chemist's Shop (Complete) -Pope Jay

A TRUE LIFE STORY
The time space between my admission into the great ife and my resumption into the institution is a part of my life I may never forget. In between these two monumental occasions was a holiday that was long and at the time unwanted. A long ASUU strike and an uneven calendar was the excuse that kept me at home for almost 13 months even though JAMB had told me that I had been admitted. However, when the holiday became quite boring and almost unbearable and acting upon the advice of family and friends, I got a job.

How I got my first job is another day’s story but one reason why my job was so spectacular was that it was in line with the course which I had just been admitted to study in the university; Pharmacy. I got a job in a community pharmacy as a sales attendant, what most Nigerians considering my masculine gender would refer to as a “Sales Boy”. My job description as a sales attendant was quite simple; I would simply sell Over the Counter (OTC) drugs, assist the pharmacist in dispensing prescriptions and behind the counter drugs. However, being a “student” of pharmacy at the Premier School of the noble profession, the superintendent pharmacist ( I hope he reads this) took me as his son and understudy; He told me things I would learn in school and most importantly, the things I wouldn’t learn in school (I am eternally grateful Sir!).

One of the extras that my professional father taught me was how to use the sphygmanometer, the device used to check blood pressure, and in a few months, I was efficient enough to check the blood pressure of customers whenever the Superintendent pharmacist wasn’t around or was busy. My newly acquired skill allowed me become friends with a lot of customers; most especially the older age group. Men and women in their forties and above would come to my “office” and I would check their blood pressure and relate it to their medication; stop a medication, reduce dosage or refer to the superintendent pharmacist. In the course of doing these things, I had to listen to their problems, struggles and issues that they felt had raised their B.P and try calming them. My little and newly acquired knowledge plus my OAU admission letter provided a basis of the confidence that my new friends had in me.

One of the friends I made during this time was Mr. Fagbemi. Mr. Fagbemi was an elderly man whom I predict to have been in his late fifties when I met him, He was one of the few Nigerians that believed that a high blood pressure was not a spiritual attack and so being more prone to this condition due to his age, he would come to the community pharmacy at a regular interval to check his Blood Pressure and eventually we became friends. Whenever he came around, we would wander off into a lot of topics; from the saddening state of the nation to the prestige of the Obafemi Awolowo University and he would show me glimpses into the times past and tell me stories of the late Obafemi Awolowo and other National Icons. I loved attending to Mr. Fagbemi because there was never a dull moment with him and every moment was enlightening but like quite a number of Nigerians, Mr. Fagbemi’s blood pressure was not so beautiful.

Mr. Fagbemi was whom you could describe as an average Nigerian; He lived in a rented apartment in a rural city in Ikorodu, He could afford three meals a day but couldn’t afford the luxury of being choosy with the meals, He perhaps had to send something back home being a ‘Lagosian’ in the family. Perhaps, it was his daily stress combined with his aging body that made his blood pressure go over the fair limit more often than usual and in the face of this, he had to be on steady medication.

Upon resumption to school, I left home, my job and my new friends to continue in my academic pursuit. However, anytime school was on break or ‘strike’, I would go back to my job and friends and one thing that made the stress of my job bearable was the company of these beautiful people. In May 2015, I was home on holiday and, as had become my custom, I went to sell drugs. On a fateful day as I sat in the pharmacy where I worked, waiting for the next customer, a neighbor brought me the saddening news that Mr Fagbemi had passed on.

I never got to know what caused Mr. Fagbemi’s death or his burial arrangements but I learnt that he had slumped at a friend’s place and upon getting to the hospital, the doctor pronounced him already dead and his family took him home for his burial. In my solitary mourning for my friend, I began to think of what might have taken Mr. Fagbemi’s life as no proper autopsy was performed; perhaps his blood pressure had gone too high or maybe that witch in his village had finally decided to become so villainous.

Even with his death Mr. Fagbemi still taught me a lesson, he showed me the role of the community pharmacy in the present Nigerian Health system. The Community pharmacy in Nigeria plays a vital role in the Nigerian Health system; it is the first link of an average Nigerian with the entire system. Whether a simple headache or terminal cancer; an average Nigerian would go to the Chemist’s Shop around the corner before he goes to a hospital for quite a number of reasons. Simply put, the community pharmacy is the first aid box of the society and in the Nigerian Society, all the majority ever gets for their illnesses is this first aid just because they cannot afford quality treatment. In Nigeria, the Community Pharmacy is not just an average Nigerian’s first link with the health system, for some like Mr. Fagbemi, it is the only solid link they ever get with the Nigerian Health system.

(Dedicated to the ones whose lives we lost because of the faults of the Health System. May their souls rest in peace)

Pope Jay

JAMB 2015: 7,817 Applied To Study Medicine In OAU

If the statistics on the website of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boards (JAMB) is anything to reckon with, no fewer than 7,817 students who wrote the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) applied to study Medicine and Surgery in Obafemi Awolowo University.


The Department of Accounting had the second highest applicants with 5,554 followed closely by the Faculty of Law that had 5,049. Department of Education and French recorded the least number of applicants with only a person seeking admission to the department.

22 Winners Emerge During 2015 OYA Awards

Full List of Winners

Most outstanding organisation of the year – AIESEC

Most outstanding compere/MC of the year – MC Headies

Most outstanding blog of the year – OAUChristians

Most outstanding fast food of the year – Indulge

Most outstanding social media personality – Olalekan Azeez (Gossip Nation)

Most outstanding student union executive – Isaac Ibikunle

Most outstanding music producer of the year – Tyemmy

Most outstanding model of the year (female) – Simi Olatunji


Most outstanding model of the year (male) –  Valentine Agbakwuru

Most outstanding press board of the year – Neonatar

Most outstanding religious leader of the year – Pst. Peter Alabi

Most outstanding VJ of the year – VJ Lexie

Most outstanding brand of the year – Black n Bold

Most outstanding OAP of the year – Deji Onadeko

Most outstanding photographer of the year – Bisi Daniels

Most outstanding DJ of the year – DJ T-Swaggs

Most outstanding graphics designer of the year – Enesi Owuda

Most outstanding artiste of the year (male) – Chinko Ekun

Most outstanding artiste of the year – Banke

Most outstanding entrepreneur of the year – Seun (Indomie, Risky

Most outstanding fashion designer of the year – Tunde TNT

Most outstanding event of the year – OAU StandUp

SU Leadership Reverses Stance, Urge Students To Resume

The leadership of the Obafemi Awolowo University Students' Union has reversed its initial position that students should observe the outcome of yesterday and today's face-off between the Management and the NASU before resuming.

The new stance was contained in a Release published late yesterday evening. Read below:

OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER


LATEST AS REGARDS RESUMPTION
The leadership of the Students’ Union having witnessed the development on the University campus today and having critically observed a relatively peaceful and serene environment with vehicular movement, light, Water and health Centre back in full operation.

The Union hereby suggests that since:

Barricades are no longer in place and there is vehicular movement.

Light and water and other welfare apparatus such as the Health Centre in fully operation.

With the HOPE that the above mentioned instrumentalities will be intact and unhampered with. We therefore Suggests that students should resume without fear or doubt in them.

In a meeting with leadership of NASU early today, they posited that their strike actions continues until their earned allowance is been paid.

We also hereby demand for the immediate payment of the 64-months earned allowance of the NASU workers so that our students will not continue to be victims of any social and politico phantasmagoria and be inimically subjected to undue academic and economic quagmire.

The students’ union also takes cognizance of the lectures that held today. We have been relating with the Academic Staff Union of University on the issue and assure quick resolution.

ALUTA CONTINUA, VICTORIA ASCERTA

#REINSTATEOGUNRUKUNOW

Emmanuel Ojedokun (Immanuel Kant)

P.R.O

Omotayo Akande (TY)

President