Female Wins Male Counterpart To Emerge President In Psychology Department

Another history was made today in Obafemi Awolowo University as a female student president emerged at the Department of Psychology after beating her male counterpart and winning with 135 votes to 99 votes.

Nwacheta Blessing known as Scholar was voted ahead of Folarin Ibukunoluwa a.k.a FLOW who was the former Director of Socials of the student association – Nigerian Association of Psychology Student (NAPS).

Addressing the students after the close of the poll, the Electoral Commission chairman, Ojo Bright announced that a total vote of 235 was casted which represented a significant turn out. He however declared the following contestants winners of the available offices; President – Nwacheta Blessing a.k.a Scholar, Vice President – Anjola Ogunaike, General Secretary – Olumide Ajayi.

Others are; Assistant General Secretary – Habibat Ibrahim, Public Relations Officer – Hammid Ismaheel, Financial Secretary – Orimadegun Oritooke, Treasurer – Okunwa Ifemade, Librarian – Aderogba Olajide, Director of Socials – Fizzle Azeez and Director of Sport- Bolarinwa Oluwafemi.

Former OAU SU Welfare Officer Calls For Probe Of Student Union Leaders

A one time Welfare Officer of the Obafemi Awolowo University Student Union, Ajewole Martins Oluwole a.k.a Ojogbon has called for the probing currently suspended Student Union leaders over about 8 million naira union fund allegedly not accounted for. This he said is necessary before calling for the probing of the University officials.

In a 6-paged article written by the former Unionist titled "Before I Sign Out of the System", he related his opinions on several hanging issues ranging from that which surrounded the non frenzy relationship between the Ibikunle-led SU leadership and the TY-led SU leadership. He however called on OAU students to probe the suspended Union leaders and make them account for the allegedly misappropriated union money.

"Probing of the current administration in arm of affairs of Obafemi Awolowo University is very necessary and important because I'm not insensitive to the negative relationship between our general welfare and funds coming into this school in different forms but we need to probe ourselves before championing that course because all of you shouting probe Omole has no moral value and integrity to do that.

"What do you have to say to a situation when Great Ife students’ union leaders cannot account for over N8,000,000.00k (Eight millions naira only) (N3,500,000 received from management as subvention, N3,600,000 realized from Satguru Maharaji, Former Speaker, Oyo state house of Assembly and Oba Onifa Agbaye’s Awards, N200,000 received from Ooni of Ife, N100,000 received from Dr. (Mrs.) L.M. Durosinmi in the beginning of this session, N205,600 received from Dr. Fola Akinosun for his son’s rape case that TY administration covered up cum scholarship sponsorship, numerous money outsourced from corporate bodies in the name of scholarship, money transferred from Ibikunle led-administration etc.).

"If the same set of people that are absorbing (all in the name of suspension that the reality is still questionable) TY led-administration of this high degree of financial misappropriation and atrocities because they have gotten their own share in the form of scandalous scholarship and sponsorship are now shouting “Probe Omole administration”, IT IS CALLED HYPOCRISY. So, let us start the probing from within and be sure we are corruption free first. Therefore, before we can further our probe Omole-led administration campaign, let us pause and probe ourselves and TY’s led administration in particular; TY led administration should make available all the lists of beneficiaries of their N1,600,000.00k scandalous scholarship for all Great Ife Students to see, all incomes and expenditures report of their administration.

Ekpa Stanley Emerges LSS OAU President

Ekpa Stanley has emerged the new president-elect of the Law Students’ Society of Obafemi Awolowo University defeating Akande Paul with a margin of 160 votes.

Kicking off with the manifesto night on Sunday 28th March, 2016 at Law 209 where all the candidates with the exception of the lone aspirant for the office of the Director of Socials, Ogana Micheal aka Lord Mapex (who was absent due unfortunately to ill health), made their manifestoes known to those in attendance.

The election proper earlier scheduled to begin 9am on Monday had a late start and eventually kicked off at about 9:30am. Voting went on at a steady pace till 5:30pm, when voting was ended and counting began. Although there were a few incidents of temper flares amongst people on opposing sides, things were quickly brought under control while the counting of the votes continued.

The votes for the Law Students Representative Council (LSRC) were counted first with Oyeniyi Oyewole aka Wole Zangani, Oyeniran Timothy aka Mentality and Awodiran Rejoice aka Aworej winning the LLB 1 seats in the LSRC with 170, 114 and 94 votes respectively.

In LLB 2, seats in the LSRC were won by Olawuni Oluwatobi aka D’Leveler (170 votes), Adeagbo Toheeb aka Toyib (167), Ajayi Joseph aka Sanmi (138 votes), Komolafe Olayinka aka Comrade Tempo (125 votes) and Adebayo Olamide aka Olamide P.A.S. (124 votes).

In LLB 3, the LSRC seats were won by Emuesiri Sarah aka Esiri who got 111 votes, Adepoju Idris aka Supreme, Uzoma Felix aka Felix And Afolabi Kayode aka Ultimate all got seats too with 107 votes each, Olaniyi Monisola aka Monisola and Ezejide Augustus aka Augustus also won seats with 106 and 102 votes respectively.

The LLB 4 LSRC aspirants automatically got seats due to the fact that there were 7 seats available and just 7 contestants.

For the executive positions, the candidates who contested unopposed automatically won the posts they contested for. Thus Adekilumo Itunuoluwa aka Itunu won the office of the treasurer, Ogana Michael aka Lord Mapex got the post of the Director of Socials, Ogunleye Oluwatosin aka La Bouche won the position of the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Olagunju Aanu aka Mz Harnu won the office of the General Secretary and Abe Adesola won the post of the Vice President.

The other executive positions that were contested are the Principal Liaison Officer (PLO) which was won by Adegbola Adedayo aka Dee-Why with 421 votes, the Sports Secretary post was won by Uwazie Uchechukwu with 630 votes, the Financial Secretary position was won by Folayemi Priscilla who had 541 votes, the Assistant General Secretary post which is arguably the second most contested position in this election was won by Jegede Moyinoluwa aka Moyen, who won with 501 votes, dominating his counterpart Omodaratan Kayode aka Kay Why by just 5 votes.

The office of the President which arguably is the most coveted office in the Law Students Society (LSS) was won by Ekpa Stanley Ekpa aka Stanley with 596 votes staying far ahead of his fellow aspirant Akande Paul aka Positive by 160 votes.

The counting and declaration of results was concluded at about 1am on Tuesday 1st march, 2016 with celebrations continuing till early in the morning.

Achenyo Idachaba Shares Her Story With OAU Students At NABOS Seminar

The award winning social entrepreneur and founder of MitiMeth Nigeria, Achenyo Idachaba has encouraged students of Obafemi Awolowo University to explore the entrepreneurship track.

Achenyo, who spoke as one of the guest lecturers at the Seminar of the National Association of Botany Students as part of events lined up to mark NABOS Week 2016 shared her story and how she uses what is considered as an environmental problem by many to empower communities.

The 47-year-old entrepreneur who has a background tertiary education in Computer Science from Obafemi Awolowo University won the 2014 Cartier Women Initiative Award. She uses Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), an invasive weed on water ways to make eco-friendly materials including decors, books, pen and others.

Addressing the students on the ‘Entrepreneurship Utilization of Potent Botany’, she said her urge for sustainable development and solve the problem created by the weed on water way sent her to research on the weeds. She said 20 Nigerian states had the problem of water hyacinth and other invasive aquatic weeds on their water ways which she described as renewable resources that can be transformed to an economic advantage through the empowerment of communities and creation of art craft accessories. She encouraged the students not to prioritize money as a goal but rather strive to do well what they like doing.

The other Guest lecturer at the seminar Professor Jide Oke who is the Director, Institute of Entrepreneurship and Developmental Studies also opened the mind of the botany students to so many entrepreneurial opportunities that lie in the field of Botany through his lecture delivery. Oke who took the students down history lane reiterated the drastic reduction in white collar job, hence, the challenge for the students to become entrepreneurs that will create jobs.

The Seminar also featured the Presentation of gifts and awards to the winners of the maiden edition of NABOS Essay Competition. Oyetunji Ridwan won the first prize while Adekambi Blessing, Kolade Aminat Taiwo and Latifah Adejumoke came 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively. The awards were presented to the students by the invited guests amidst loud cheers from their colleagues.

The event was chaired by Professor Anthony Elujoba, a renowned herbal practitioner and scholar from the Department of Pharmacognosy, OAU and had in attendance several dignitaries in attendance including the Dean, Faculty of Science, OAU represented by the Vice Dean, Dr Adebiyi, and the event was hosted by the HOD of the Department of Botany, OAU, Dr Abayomi E. Folorunso.

Giving the vote of thanks at the end of the seminar, the president of the student association, David Adetula appreciated all the participants of the seminar and encouraged them to utilize every teaching they have gotten.

OAU Health Centre Issues Situation Report Over Increased Sick Students

The Health Centre of Obafemi Awolowo University has issued a situation report today on the widely reported increase in number of sick students of the institution. The report allays fear of a possible outbreak of a viral disease in the institution.

"This is to inform the university community in particular and the nation in general, that there is no virus outbreak of a new disease in the university community. The news on social media by one faceless “Dr. Ilesanmi” is false and unfounded.

There is no Doctor by the name Ilesanmi in our Health Centre, and we do not have residents.

The few students that were attended to were cases of malaria and exam stress coupled with heat from climate change.

The university community is hereby informed that there is no cause for alarm."

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Increased Sickness On OAU Campus Is More Of Spiritual Than Physical – UJCM

The University Joint Christian Mission, UJCM of Obafemi Awolowo University has described the current increased rate of sickness reported on campus as a spiritual issue that has to be dealt with and sent back to where it came from.

The umbrella body of the Christian fellowships on campus in a circulated broadcast churned out by the body's Prayer Coordinator has however fixed 10:00pm today, Monday to pray against the plaque of illness at White Wall.

“There will be an urgent and very important prayer meeting by 10pm tomorrow (Monday) at white Wall. What is happening on Campus is more of spiritual than physical, this plaque of illness has to be dealt with. Let us send back the spirit to where it came from.” a part of the broadcast reads.