Post-UTME: OAU To Decide Very Soon

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife will soon decide whether or not the institution will revert to its old method of admitting students, that is, conducting an entrance test (Post-UTME) or maintain the method it used for admission last year.

Recall, earlier this week, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu announced that the federal government has lifted the ban it placed on varsities from conducting another admission test after the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

While responding to enquiry from OAU Peeps News Agency, the Registrar of the institution, Dotun Awoyemi said the outcome of the Stakeholders Meeting with JAMB next week will inform the decision OAU will take concerning admission this year. "Let's wait and see what comes out of the Stakeholders Meeting with JAMB later in the month, then the University will follow the directives that would be given," the Registrar informed OAU Peeps.

JAMB will hold the policy committee meeting on August 21 and 22 that will determine cut of points for admission this year into various courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

OAU Appoints Femi Oguntuase As Librarian

The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo Universities, Ile-Ife have appointed Dr. Femi Oguntuase as the new Librarian of the institution.

Oguntuase is the immediate past Librarian of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). He takes over from Mrs. Bukky Olufemi Asubiojo B.Ed., M.L.S. (Ibadan), PGD (Computer Science) (Ife).

Elated by the development the Vice-Chancellor of FUTA where Oguntuase previously served, Professor Joseph Fuwape has congratulated the new OAU Librarian. In a congratulatory letter conveyed by the Acting Director, Directorate of Establishment and Human Resource (DEHR), Mr. Ademola Bobola on behalf of the FUTA Vice-Chancellor, he said, “I write to convey to you the warm felicitations of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Joseph Fuwape and the University Management on your recent appointment as the University Librarian of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The appointment which speaks volume of your track record of professional competence is not only well deserved but recognition of the University’s high standard of excellence”.

The new OAU Librarian has had his education and services cut across some of Nigeria's best universities. Here is a brief timeline of some of his academic trainings:

i. University of Ibadan, Ibadan 2013
ii. Federal University of Technology, Akure 2002-2004
iii. Federal University of Technology, Akure 1997-1999
iv. University of Ibadan, Oyo State 1984-1985
v. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 1977-1981
vi. Ife Divisional Teacher Training College 1975-1976
vii. Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, Ikare Akoko 1970-1974
viii. St. Luke’s Primary School, Iro-Ekiti 1964-1969

FG Lifts Ban On Post-UTME Screening By Varsities

The Federal Government has lifted the ban on the controversial examinations usually organised by universities in Nigeria for admission seekers after the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).

The Federal Government had last year ordered the scrapping of post-UTME for candidates.Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in Abuja yesterday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said universities could now organise post-UTME as a pre-condition to gaining admission into universities in the country.

The minister, who however urged university authorities to make the fees for the screening affordable and not to impose huge financial burden on the parents, said: “We are going to allow universities to organise post-UTME if they want.

“We have asked them not to impose huge financial burden on the parents. The burden should not be more than what they can bear.”Adamu said that the Federal Government had stopped the scrapping of the examination to fully understand what was going on in universities, adding: “We are now wiser.”

The minister, who expressed confidence in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said the management of JAMB had remitted N5 billion to the Federal Government coffers, which happens to be the highest so far in the last 40 years of the board’s existence.

He said: “Since JAMB was established more than 40 years ago, the total amount it has given government was N200 million, but in one year, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has remitted N5 billion to government.

“The new JAMB registrar has been correcting many anomalies in the board. Within a year, he has been able to stop all the untold things that were happening there.

Source: Guardians Newspaper

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ASUU Declares Indefinite Strike

By Farombi Oluwaseun

Following the outcome of the referendum meeting held on Sunday afternoon in Abuja by the union leaders, the Academic staff Union of Universities has declared an indefinite strike from Sunday 13th August 2017. This was made public through a release signed by Biodun Ogunyemi,ASUU National President,he said  this came after several branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have voted overwhelmingly for members in both federal and state universities to embark on an indefinite strike to press home the implementation of their demands..

This is coming few days to the commencement of the Harmattan Semester Examination. However,based on the information available through the  OAU Registrar,D.O.Awoyemi , the examination will hold as scheduled.  He encouraged the students to put their mind at rest,not to be distracted and prepare well for their examination.

OAUTHC School Of Nursing 2017/2018 Admission List Released

By Farombi Oluwaseun

The list of successful candidates for admission into Obafemi Awolowo School of nursing for 2017/2018 academic session has been published.

The names of successful candidates are as indicated below;

1 16039 OKE DOLAPO NAFIZAT
2 16203 IGE VICTOR AYOMIDE
3 17257 AKINDELE JENNY IYIMIDE
4 17033 ADEDIPE ABIGAEL ANUOLUWA
5 16978 GANIYU OLAMIDE RHAFIAT
6 15320 ADEYEMI A. C.
7 17120 OKEGBOLA PAUL AYOMIDE
8 13981 ADUROJA DAMILARE MATTHEW
9 17254 AWOFIRANYE CHRISTIANAH I.
10 16395 BAMIDELE K. K.
11 16642 ADEYENI SAMUEL OLUWATOSIN
12 17087 FALOBA OLUWASEUN BILIKIS
13 15924 OSUNDE OMOLOLA ELIZABETH
14 15820 AYODEJI INIOLUWA ANU
15 17256 ODESANMI TAIWO FUNMILAYO
16 16268 OLUWADARE ESTHER GBOTEMI
17 16254 OZURUONYE UCHECHI NKEMJIKA
18 16880 OLATUNBOSUN IFEDOLAPO DORCAS
19 15326 OLADIMEJI FRANCIS OLUWABUNMI
20 16909 AKINYELE SAMUEL OLUWADAMILARE
21 17236 TIAMIYU FATIMOH ADEOLA
22 15770 TAIWO OLABODE ABRAHAM
23 15304 KOMOLAFE ESTHER O.
24 17162 OWOLABI BUKOLA FLORENCE
25 17136 OLORUNSANYA AYOPO GLORIA
26 16771 AKINOLAONI OLUWAKEMI F.
27 16930 OGUNMOROTI OLUBUNMI IBUKUN
28 16269 ASAOLU WINNER SAMUEL
29 15712 ONADIJI AYOMIDE BLESSING
30 16450 OMOYENI ABOSEDE JANET
31 15525 FOLARIN PRECIOUS ENIOLA
32 15877 OGUNLANA OLUWASEYI ELIZABETH
33 15760 AWOPEJU AYOMIDE EUNICE
34 16218 AKINOLA OLAYINKA
35 16439 ONINI HELEN OGHENEIKPU EWE
36 15321 ABIODUN GRACE AANUOLUWAPO
37 15378 IWALEWA FATIMO
38 17145 AKINBOSEDE PRAISE BUSAYO
39 15980 ALAO ESTHER OLUWASEUN
40 15476 ALATISHE LATIFAT ABIOLA
41 16305 OSUNDEYI DOLAPO GRACE
42 16060 ADEJUMO YETUNDE ENIOLA
43 17245 OGUNDIRAN MUSEFIU OLALEKAN
44 16707 AJAGONO RUTH AJEKUMUEMU
45 16669 OMISAKIN TAIWO ENIOLAOLUWA
46 16673 ABRAHAM JOY CHRISTIANAH
47 17027 OLADOSU AYOOLA MOSES
48 16975 ODEYEMI ABOSEDE ESTHER
49 15380 OLAFOYEKU TAIWO MOBISOLA
50 17464 BLANKSON MARGARET GIFT
51 17255 ADETUNJI OPEYEMI SUNDAY
52 16918 FADEHAN MOSES AYOADELE
53 15889 OKE ELIZABETH OLUWABUKUNMI
54 16835 OJO ADURAGBEMI BOSE
55 15749 ABDULAZEEZ HALIMAT DASOLA
56 15952 OYEWOLE TOLANI EUNICE
57 16172 ADENIYI OLUWAFEMI MICHEAL
58 17273 ADISA SEKINAT OLAIDE
59 17248 OLAFARE TOBILOBA ISAAC
60 16993 OLADELE BUKOLA KABIRAT W.
61 16530 ODEWUMI IFEOLUWA JANET
62 15431 OLADOKUN JOSEPH TEMITOPE
63 15417 OLAOLUWA OLUWASOGO JOSEPH
64 17026 ADETORO NURUDEEN ADEDEJI
65 16541 ADEDEJI GETRUDE BORUNRIN
66 15464 ONI SAMUEL AYODELE
67 15962 TIAMIYU WALIYYAH OMOBOLANE
68 16410 OPELUSI DAMILOLA TOSIN
69 15362 OLANIYAN TEMITAYO T.
70 15782 FADEYIBI OLAMIDE GIFT
71 16140 ASIEDU SUSAN GBEMISOLA
72 15897 FADEYI MARY FOLUSO
73 16129 ADEDOYIN ADENIKE ADURAGBEMI
74 17084 SAMUEL ASIMI ADERONKE
75 16921 OLATUNJI FUNMILOLA CHRISTIANAH
76 16591 OMOLEWA KEHINDE ADISA A.

Admission letter can be collected from the office of Head of Department, (Nursing Education) from Wednesday 9th August, 2017 after payment of acceptance fee of Ten Thousand naira (N10,000.00) only.

Congratulations to you all

"The B and F Committee Has Had About Fifty Meetings This Session"- Hon Pchaun

By Michael Mary
So OAU Peeps interacted with Hon. Sola Onimole, of the Faculty of Technology and member Budgetary and Finance Committee popularly known as Pchaun and here's what he had to say.

Interview Session with Sola Onimole, honourable of the OAU SRC representing Faculty of Technology

Good evening sir, we would like to know you.
Hon Pchaun: My name is Onimole 'Sola Paul, studentt of OAU, Mechanical Engineering part four.
  Is that all there is to know about you?
Hon Pchaun: I'm an honourable for my faculty.
  What faculty is that?
Hon Pchaun: Faculty of Technology, I'm also the class rep of my department.
  Perhaps, some background, educational background, where are you from?
Hon Pchaun: I'm from Lagos Island, I stay in Ogun state, I was born into a family of four, the second child and we have just a girl. Educational background, I had my primary and secondary education in Lagos state before coming down to Ife.

Coming back to Ife, in what year did come to campus?
Hon Pchaun: I came to campus in the year 2014.
  So how did the SRC happen?
Hon Pchaun: I have Always been involved in major things like having the mind of people at the back of my mind. I always want to see a better future. Ok, when I was in part one, I contested for the post of a class rep and I won. Ever since then, I have been going on with the with the good things, passing out information. Trying to get the best information. I will say in my set, I am the most popular class rep, I'm known as the  Faculty Rep. I have always been interested in bringing up the  progress of everywhere I am.
  So how did you convert that into getting the class rep office?
Hon Pchaun: When I was in Angola, I was very active, getting information, I was well known by majority of the people that stayed in Angola. I was involved in one political ambition that didn't really show up.
  What was that?
Hon Pchaun: Financial Secretary, but we thank God. I have been into getting latest information on campus especially the political aspect of it, till when I was in part three, I think when I was in part three when the union was proscribed. There was a little adjustment then and I contested for the post of SRC when I was in part three.

Now that we know your background, let's start from when you get to campus assessing the union, what do u have to say about it?
Hon Pchaun: When I was in part one, the welfare of the students was OK, that was the tenure of Ibikunle, the union was very vibrant. During the tenure of T.Y nothing really happened the union was dead that was what led to the suspension of some Executives of the union. Then we have this current administration, this administration hasn't been going on well actually, somethings that had to be done well has been done in a very bad way. They might have a good idea of what they need to do, but they are not really getting it. It's the other way round instead. So, this administration hasn't been going well for me, I don't really like it. I have not really seen something they have really achieved about from the issue that was on ground some months ago but we thank God.

Coming from that now, we must ask, you said personally that you have not been enjoying the administration, but you are part of the administration. As a part of the administration, what's your reaction to it? What have you been doing?

Hon Pchaun: I have been playing my role as an honourable and a major member in a committee.

Which committee exactly sir?
Hon Pchaun: The Budget and Finance committee.

Are you holding any post in the committee?
Hon Pchaun: No, but I'm an active member. What we do there is look into the budget making sure that nothing goes wrong. The part in which I don't enjoy is the bus issue it was a big slap on the face of Great Ife students, it didn't go Well at all, they didn't do the right thing for getting the bus which was known to the whole world.

We sure know that the bus issue is the one that really rocked the union this semester, if not mistaken, it is perhaps the biggest scandal we have experienced this session. Some say the price was exaggerated, and different claims have emanated. One of their major offenses was slighting the B&F in the process of procuring the bus, quite a number of releases was made, some trying to explain that the B&F were not constituted. As a member of that committee what have you guys been doing with the budget for this administration?

Hon Pchaun: We have done a lot of things, there is a whole lot of improvement, as a member we have had more than fifty meetings just this semester. At times we stay more than five hours, everytime I go for the meeting I always go back home with headache, because we are there to analyse issue, sometimes an argument may come up. It hasn't been easy but B&F have been trying.
So are we looking forward to the Budget Ratification soon?
Hon Pchaun: We have been doing it.

Diverting a little from the union and coming back to academics, if there anything we learn on campus, it is that combining academics with other things can be quite tedious. You said you are the class representative, an honourable and you are still a student, how do you find the balance?

Hon Pchaun: I have been trying my best because I have always been used to serving others, making things be in place and taking my time hasn't been a burden. So, I have been managing it up right from my secondary school and I am in part four now, I'm used to it already and I have never regretted it.
We must ask, are u looking forward to any bigger responsibility especially concerning the union or may be outside?
Hon Pchaun: Yes I am because not even looking at OAU alone but looking at our Society Ife, Nigeria, OAU, Osun state. There are a whole lot of things to address and put in place. Someone once told me she is not interested, she just wants to be looking at it from afar, she doesn't want to know what they are doing. And I told her if you see things going bad then what effect will it have on your community? If you can go there and make them understand that such is wrong. Let us do it this way, and why are we doing it this way so, there are a whole lots of things I'm so much interested both in OAU and outside OAU. Nigeria as a whole, there are a lots of things to put into place. 
Closing Remarks?
Hon Pchaun: Let me first address the issue we have here, in the administration we have right now, I noticed a fault. I think they should sit together and try to understand each other having the issue of suspending this and the other, then when are we going to have a good union? They need to work together for the progress of the union. Nigeria as a whole, Osun state, a whole lot of things to address next election shouldn't bring any violence and maybe they have to do some medical check up. I want to thank Great Ife students, OAU peeps for putting me there as an honourable and we are trying our best.

Thank you very much for your time.