We Can Stop Suicide Bombers With ICT -FUTA Don

The Federal Government has been advised to take a proactive stance in combating the scourge of terrorism in the country by investing in the development and provision of bomb detector wearable devices that could be used to detect and disable bombs carried by suicide bombers. This advice was given by Professor Olumide Sunday Adewale, Head, Department of Computer Science while delivering the 72nd inaugural lecture of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). Adewale emphasized that the economic development of the nation hinged on adequate security and that the current trend of suicide bombings was a great threat to foreign investors.

He stated that the wearable devices worn by security operatives will have radii of operation and effectiveness such that suicide bombers within the perimeter of any security operative wearing the device, will be detected and the operative alerted either by an alarm signal with coordinates of the suicide bomber. The operative through his device can then disable the bomb before it is detonated. Adewale who spoke on the topic “Convergence in Divergence in Information Technology: a Symbiosis” canvass for a strategy that will bring together government at all levels, industry and universities for the purpose of further developing research output into viable economic assets for the nation and ICT based security measures.

The Professor of Computer Science declared that the convergence has and will continue to have profound impact on technology, industry and the larger society and that technology convergence if appropriately managed, can play an important role in the economic and social development of any nation. Speaking further the don highlighted some of the opportunities brought by technological convergence to include: traffic modeling; internet based telemedicine system; data/internet telephony integration; digital libraries; personalized e-learning system; and web based system for University undergraduate admission, selection and placement.



Professor Adewale, however lamented that chances of abuse of the convergence by various miscreants, universal access to communication networks and issues like interoperability, interconnection, policy and regulatory framework are some challenges that may affect the opportunities offered by the communications and computing symbiosis. Adewale, who held the First Bank of Nigeria Professional Chair in Computer Science of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, from 2005-2009 proposed therefore that the Federal Government should as a matter of urgency; work in collaboration with Computer Professional Registration Council, Nigerian Communications Commission and Nigeria Computer Society to establish a perpetual act that will ensure local content in information technology projects and development in the nation, while discouraging the practice of giving IT jobs to ordinary vendors and foreigners at the expense of capable and competent manpower available in the country.

Concluding, the lecturer called on the Federal government to leverage on the communication network infrastructure in the country to stimulate market development and meet previous unmet societal communication demands in areas like healthcare delivery, monitoring of government installations, financial transactions and in the security of the lives and property of the Nigerian citizenry.

In his remarks the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola who was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics), Professor Tunde Arayela said the choice of the lecture was apt considering the enormous security and economic related issues confronting the nation. He described the lecturer as an astute scholar and a prolific researcher who had contributed to the development of the University in various academic and administrative capacities.

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Nigerian Law School Calls 3,600 Students To Bar

A total of 3,600 students of the Nigerian Law School, who were successful in this year’s Bar Final examinations, were yesterday called to the Nigerian Bar.

The director general of the Nigerian Law School, Olanrewaju Onadeko, who disclosed this at the Call-to-Bar ceremony held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, said the number includes 14 candidates from the previous Bar final examinations.

Onadeko said the April 2015 examinations were written by resit students after two months of intensive preparation, adding that the students’ performance at the examinations vindicated the decision of the Council of Legal Education for a compulsory intensive revision exercise for students.

According to the Nigerian Law School boss, four candidates out of the total number of 3,600 that were called to the Bar came out with First Class, 109 obtained the Second Class Upper grade, 418 were classified in the Second Class Lower division and 1, 422 attained the pass grade.

Onadeko added that the total number of passes at the examinations was 1, 953, while 815 students failed the examinations outrightly, even though he said there was a rising level of focus and diligence among the students of the Nigerian Law School.


He said the school has never had its programmes (academic or others) interrupted in its 52 years of existence, adding that it is the disruptions in the academic programmes of universities that are posing a challenge to the school, a situation, he noted, resulted in the “backlog class” the school had this year.

The curriculum of the school, he said, is designed to prepare students for call-to-bar and purposeful career, adding, “I have no doubt that the candidates here present have availed themselves of skills, knowledge, values and attributes to build upon for successful careers at the bar”.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, who also spoke at the event, congratulated the new wigs for passing the bar final examinations and for being found worthy in both character and learning as certified by the Council of Legal Education.

The CJN charged the new lawyers to exhibit the highest level of professional ethics and decorum as the legal profession is known for its sanctity, integrity, honesty, objectivity and respect for the rule of law.

Source: Leadership

Resumption For Rain Semester Remains November 1 -Senate

The Senate of Obafemi Awolowo University has approved November 1 as the set date for resumption of the Rain semester of the 2014/2015 academic session.

A member of the University senate who confirmed this development to our correspondent said he received a copy of the memorandum from the University authority two days ago which was dated Wednesday, 21st October, 2015 to authenticate the November 1 resumption date and lectures according to him will resume the next day.


The Vice President of the Students' Union, Oladunjoye Opeyemi a.k.a Oprah also corroborated this standpoint in a broadcast sent out on social media under the aegis of the Academic Committee of the Students' Union. She wrote that the committee approached the senate and they were able to confirm the November 1 set date.

OAU Peeps News Agency had previously published the Rain semester academic calendar approved by the Senate. Click here to see the full calendar.

U-17 WC: Nigeria Crush Chile To Advance To The Next Round

Golden Eaglets crushed the hosts to secure a place in the knock out round of the 2015 Fifa U17 World Cup as Miguel Ponce's lads face an early exit

A goal from captain Kelechi Nwakali plus a brace from Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze brought hosts Chile to their feet as they crashed 5-1 at the Estadio SausalitoVina Del Mar on Wednesday morning.

Although Marcelo Allende got one for the South Americans with nine minutes to the end of the game, that could not inspire a comeback as the rampaging Nigerians have now secured a place in the second round of the competition.

The Chileans came into the game with the outlook of securing their first win of the competition after their 1-1 draw against Croatia on Saturday, but the Eaglets had different idea as Chukwueze fired Emmanuel Amuneke’s side ahead after 30 seconds.



Not quite long – in the 16th minute to be precise, captain Nwakali converted from the spot to double his side’s lead after Chukwueze was fouled by Juan Jose Soriano by sprinting onto a long upfield clearance and tapping the ball past the sliding defender.

In the second half, Nigeria got their third in the 60th through Chukwueze who completed his double. He found his way into the South Americans’ penalty area, performed a couple of footworks and, after seeing an initial shot blocked, thumped a left-footed strike past goalkeeper Lopez.

Osimhen got his first via the penalty spot after dangerboy Chukwueze was brought down again by Brian Leiva. Despite Funsho Bamgboye’s red card, he powered in his brace.

Chile's consolation came courtesy of Allende, who slammed past Udoh from Luciano Diaz's cross.

Nigeria with this victory boast of six points and have qualified for the second round of the competition, but will face Croatia in their third game at the Estadio Sausalito on Friday.

Source: Goal.com

"I've Never Slept With A Man For Money" -Linda Ikeji

Famous Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji who recently acquired a property worth over N500 million got attacked by fans for being single.

The mighty mansion is located at Banana Island, Ikoyi.

Linda Ikeji wrote a long article aimed at young women.

Read the post below: –

“My name is Linda Ikeji. I’m a blogger. I’m 35 years old and I have never…never ever in my life slept with a man for money. Not only have I never done it, I have never even consider it…and here I am with a house that cost me over half a billion naira.

Listen, you are beautiful and you are stronger than you know. There’s absolutely nothing you can’t achieve if you set your mind to it, put her heart and soul into it. Up until five years ago, I was a struggling entrepreneur. I can’t tell you how many offices in this Lagos I sat in for hours waiting to see people who could support my business…but most times, I never passed the reception area. But I never gave up and I never stopped believing and here I am today.

You too can be this..you can be better than this. No dream is too big, no dream is too small, no mountain is too high…it’s all in your mind. It’s all up to you. If you believe in you, in your God who is guiding you, then the sky is your starting point.

Please stop waiting around for a man to give to you…to put food on your table and put clothes on your back. I promise you, you can do it for yourself. Start thinking big, believe in yourself, be creative and start working. Realize that your dreams are valid…and nobody will make your dreams come true except you. Find what you are good at. Find something that you are passionate about. Work hard at it. Be consistent. Be patient. Start young. Even if you’re not young, it’s never too late!

“I have been hustling since I left secondary school..started modeling before I entered university in 1998. Was running a modeling agency even while I was a student and made it a full time business after I left university. I never doubted that I would succeed one day, because I was determined. And please do not think this happened over night. I’ve been blogging since 2006…November this year will make it exactly 9 years. God, consistency and hard work brought me here today.



“Unfortunately, a lot of our young girls aren’t patient and some are lazy, they want it quick and fast but it doesn’t work like that. Success takes time – takes hard work – takes passion – takes consistency – but more than anything else, it takes the Grace of God.

I was a 30 year old broke woman and on my birthday, a very sad and depressed me turned to God and begged him. I told Him you promised me, when will You fulfill Your promise? Am I not Your child? Have I not lived according to Your teachings? When will You bless me? Please God help me…and with tears in my eyes, I begged Him. I cried and I begged and I begged and I begged. A few months later my life changed. Never underestimate God’s love for you and the power of prayer.

“And never stop working. Listen, I make enough money to hire so many people to work on this blog while I go do other things and enjoy myself…but I don’t do that. I’m up while some of you are sleeping, and already blogging before some of you wake up. I don’t take this for granted. I know to stay on top, I have to constantly work and nobody will be as dedicated as I am because this is not their own thing. It’s mine and I have to keep feeding it. So I’m constantly here!

Young ladies, I promise you…you too can do this. You don’t need to spread your legs for any bladdy man – because of how much? N200k? That’s how much my shoes cost – so why you should give up your body for that? Your sacred body? God’s temple? 200k that you can make in a week or even in a day if you pursue your dreams and still have your dignity intact? You think people don’t see that you’re messing around with all dem old married men and talking about it? Think ladies, think! When next a man propositions you…tell him to get lost, that you will get yours yourself! Abi, aren’t you a woman? You know what they say about women? “A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”. You are so strong, you don’t even know!

Also, if you want God to bless you, you have to have a clean heart. All these backbiting, hating on others, trying to bring people down with hateful words, action etc – God doesn’t like ugly. He has over 6 billion people to look after and you think he will pay extra attention to you if your heart is ugly? Wish people well, help people when you can. Be good to others. But more than anything else be good to yourself. Believe in yourself. It’s very easy to give in to feelings of self-doubt and back down when things get tough, but you have to know that God will not give you anything you can’t handle.

I swear to you, you are underestimating yourself. If you know the power that you have inside. If you know the things that you are capable of. If you know how far you can go…how high you can reach but you are holding yourself back because you’re afraid of failing, because you don’t think you have it in you. If only you know that you’re stronger than you think. You are so powerful, you don’t even know it. I’m not more special than you are. I don’t have two heads. We serve the same God. Why can’t you succeed? Think ladies, think.

Like Barack Obama’s sister said, poverty is not an excuse! I used to sell/market beer at Sheraton hotel, Lagos when I was in university for N1,000 a day. I once lived on ‘puff puff’ and garri for weeks in UNILAG and I was supposedly a top model but nobody knew what I was going through. Trust me, I know poverty. Did you know I lived in Idi-oro, Mushin for 15 years? Up until when I was 25? Did you live in Mushin? Eh, so what’s your excuse? I can’t even say some things here for my family’s privacy but here I am today because I never doubted myself and I never allowed all the doubters to distract me. I was focused. I was determined. I worked hard and I knew the God I served won’t let me down. The road was long, sometimes very frustrating and painful but look at me now. God did it because he saw that I was willing!

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”

Please believe in yourself and watch God use you to set as an example for others.

May all your dreams come true!

Kisses.”

Source : Information Nigeria

OAU SMS: The Process Suspects Are Being Tried Is Barbaric -SU Lord Chancellor

By David Adetula

In an exclusive interview with OAU Peeps News Agency, the Lord Chancellor of the Judicial Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University Students' Union, Justice Joshua Olorunda has described the process suspects are being tried in OAU as crude, barbaric,unreasonable and animalistic and calls for vituperation.

Joshua Olorunda, a Part 5 student of the Faculty of Law in his opening response insisted that his opinion on the matter is personal and does not necessarily connote the exact position of either the Judicial arm of the Union which he leads or that of the Students' Union. Responding to a question on the way he sees the process trials are undertaken in OAU by the Security Committee of the Students' Union, he stylishly blamed the inadequacy of the SU Constitution on stipulated punitive measures for criminal offenses for the lapses.

The Lord Chancellor said “When I became the Lord Chancellor of the Students’ Union, the former Lord Chancellor told me that everything he fought during his tenure was to scrape the process evidence is been gotten from students who have been accused and non-students alike but he failed.

“When I came into office, I had started this, It is unfortunate that I wrote a correspondence to the Parliament on my views on how suspects are been tried my but it was not read. I don’t know why. The process suspects are been tried is barbaric, it is unreasonable, it is animalistic; It calls for vituperation. The most annoying thing is that people look up to me as if I have direct jurisdiction on it.


"The issue of the Judicial Council not having power to try theft cases is even still debateable. No part of the Constitution has directly given the responsibility to any organ of the Union"

Justice Joshua however related the functions of the Security Committee to that of the Police in the mainstream world who are still responsible to the judiciary. He noted that the non-provision of the ways suspects are been tried and punitive measures for 'convicts' necessitated the function been handled by a Security Committee that is not also provided for in the constitution of the OAU Students' Union. The Lord Chancellor though noted that not all cases are taken to the court in the mainstream world especially when they are trivial but said the Police have the right to take cases to court.

The Lord Chancellor also lamented the tradition of extracting information under duress from suspects in OAU. He acknowledged some instances where some suspects are beaten and given animalistic treatment in a bid to force them to confess but eventually turn out that those persons are innocent. Also on the 'Scientific Maximum Shishi' (SMS), Joshua wants students of OAU to accept the global best practices on trials of suspects. He wants SMS to be reduced to the bearest minimum and other punitive measure like community services added to it.

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University in recent days have continued to campaign to strongly agitate for the review of the way suspects are been tried and the punitive measures for various criminal offenses. In lieu of this, some students have recommended a referendum at faculty levels to aggregate the possible way forward as it will be opinionated by the students.

OAU Needs Fumigation Of Character, Not Of Bed Bugs -Prolificben

Certainly, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ife needs urgent fumigation exercise but I suppose not of bed bugs. Recently, the 'prestigious' and the 'very leading' Nigerian University has been rocked by bedbug attacks. Nearly all the eight halls of residence of the South-western Nigerian institution have in a couple of weeks running been ravaged by a surge of these dreaded blood sucking monstrous cockroach-like but smaller insects. The cry of students, particularly that of the Central Executive Council of the institution's Students' Union body as led by the Union's president- Omotayo Akande with intensified media campaign directly to the university's own Management was unavoidably heard. Just some two weeks ago, on the 8th of October, the university in a release through the Division of Student Affairs issued an ultimatum to student residents on campus that they evacuate halls on certain days, even while examinations were yet to end so that hostels would be fumigated and students' hostels could be salvaged from these anthropogenic boko haram. Whether or not the fumigation has been carried as scheduled or it is the case that the students need the war against these bugs is food for another thought.

However, as much as I am not of contrary opinion to the fumigation 'thing,' as a matter of fact, all that I think the entire OAU university sphere requires optimally at this testing time is a fumigation of character. A fumigation of attitude. Call it in other words, personsicidation of all stakeholders. At this point, i hope someone would forgive my seemingly annoying word coinaging. Afterall, if insecticide is to insects, then, 'personsicidation' should go for person, if not willingly but willingly.

For students and staff of 'Africa's most beautiful campus' as is self acclaimed by Great Ife students who have not lost their self being to terrestrial and monetary manipulations, it would be given a yes nod any time that Great Ife only used to have and uphold good and moral attitudes. The slogan of the institution which is 'for learning and culture' is now a halved pair. The culture-half has been thrown into the abyss. From my investigation, OAU (Oba awon unifasiti), truly used to be the king among universities. This nomenclature had come not only from the so called academic seriousness with which it is known but also from the way and manner the then generation of students created for themselves and the university an enviable image of admirable moral standards. Though there might have been instances of gross financial misconduct as at the time when Great Ife was still very great, certainly not would there have been any such things as much as now.


Today, we seem to have lost it all. From all ends, events have blown the feathers of the mother hen, thereby exposing her naked anus to the world. Sometime in September this year,2015, the leadership of the Students' Union made headline on Punch News paper for their proposed 1.8million naira budget for phone calls. Barely, a week after this horrible incidence, there was another major controversy of fraudulent act leveled on the same body. Earlier before these sour events, several were the bad connotations with which key sectors of the Obafemi Awolowo University have been branded. The management of OAU is allegedly still not free from financial misappropriation and misapplication.. Despite the increment in tuition fee and acceptance fee, one cannot at this time point at any tangible renovations and developments that have since taken place. No concrete step has been taken to ameliorate the poor welfare state in which students of the institution have been dumped. All we heard is some officer changing accounts from name 'A' to 'B.' What insolence!!! Suspension is now a tool in the hands of theoretical academic angels to incapacitate conscious students of the university who resolutely team against maladministration and academic oppression.

Instead of this outburst for fumigation of halls of residence, i fell un-remorseful to say that the bedbugs live not in the realm of the concrete and innocent beds of the university's hostels but in our bodies and souls. They live and infest in our under-skin. They are there armed and clothed with jungle justice, stained and painted with financial dishonesty. These bugs are a symbol of rape, theft, physical assaults, lecturers' abuse of power to butcher off innocent students CGPA. They are representative of ethnicity and nepotism killing off our academic standards.

As far as I'm concerned, if things must change for the best in my alma mater, good character at all ends must be our template. We only complain of poor welfarism, students complain, in fact, staff members wail. Every now and then, we make very horrendous headlines. May be we have failed to ask WHY. BAD CHARACTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unhygienic characters that have become traditions in halls of residence. The height of behavioral decadence that see very grown up students urinate behind windows on hostel corridors, in stagnated runnels.

The tradition that sees students use water closets without flushing even while taps run torrentially and another perching on the same waste minutes later only to demarcate the human dungs with layers of pieces of paper. All these are hugs that first must be fumigated.

When retrogressive ideologies are imposed on a few progressive ones in the name of 'padi padi' politics, thereby leading to a crumbled system; why do we leave the needful for the irrelevance? BUG this is!!

Way Forward
This is the time. Now is the time. It is now or never. This period when everyone is clamouring for the fumigation of halls of residence should be taken as an opportunity by all the affected to turn a new leave. It is my candid opinion that we all see this unpalatable moment as a time to rend our garments and repent of all irrational characters.
The change we want begins with us in OAU.

All hands must be on deck in the call to fumigate these bugs.
we have heard enough of it.

None is a holy man, no self-exoneration. It begins with me. It begins with YOU.

Photo Credit: Catchit Pest Control