OAU Management Suspends Students Union Activities

By Farombi Oluwaseun

Few hours after the impeachment of the Students Union President by the Parliament, the school management has suspended the Union activities until further notice following reports of incessant fighting and unruly behavior during the congresses and the recalcitrant attitude of the Students union leadership..

This was made known through a release obtained by OAU Peeps News Agency and signed by the University Registrar, D.O Awoyemi stressing that the conclusion  was inevitable for the university administration after the emergency meeting held on Monday , November 6,2017..

The release further stated the unacceptable misdemeanors manifested by the Students union in the short period of its existence after recent reinstatement which include;

1.President "s supporters beating up the Speaker on June 29 and 30,2017.

2.Speaker's Supporters beating up the President on September 15,2017

3. Fighting between the Vice-President and Director of Socials in which head butts and stabbing with broken bottles recorded at the meeting of Union Executives on September 5,2017.

4. Vandalization of NURTW vehicles on October 6,2017

5.Forceful release of Students under investigation from Police custody on October 6,2017

6. Arrant dispensing of rumours of fees increase and fabricated threats of invasion by cultists in order to deceive and falsely gain acceptance amongst the students populace to precipitate crisis,capable of disrupting the academic activities of the university

7.Conveyance of Conflicting meetings by the Executive and the legislature with resultant open confrontation and violence; and

8. Recent serious fighting and open fracas at the meetings of the Union ( in one of  which the President of the Students Union was physically assaulted on November 1,2017) and which,if not promptly addressed, could lead to fatal consequences..

The University management has further instructed the Students Union leadership to handover all properties of the Students union to the Dean,Division of Students Affairs with immediate effect and warned that " any student or group of students who parades himself or herself as leaders or representatives of the students in causing disruption to University activities, under whatever disguise ,will be dealt with according to the University rules and regulations, and Code of Conducts ,and according to the laws of the land""..

The management however concluded by enjoining all students to be vigilant by ensuring miscreants are not allowed to circumvent the efforts to restore the University to a stable academic calendar

OAU Vice Chancellor Speaks On The Impeachment Of The Students' Union President

By Farombi Oluwaseun

• Few hours after the impeachment of the Students Union President by the Parliament yesterday. the Vice  Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof.  Eyitope Ogunbodede in  an exclusive interview with OAU Peeps News Agency made his stance known concerning the impeachment of the Students Union President (Oyekan Ibukun) and other issues  relating to students.

Concerning the impeachment of the students union President , he made it known that he is yet to receive  any official statement  from the Parliament concerning the impeachment  and as such still regards Oyekan Ibukun (Dr. IBK)  as the Students Union President.

Speaking on the report  that  cultists  attacked some students on campus, he said it's  a rumour stressing it that he believes in the Security  Department  of the university  that such can never occur on campus.. He also frowned that some non-students  are still residing on campus especially the Angola Hall Chairman and some suspended students and further promised that a strict action will be taken on that soon.

On speculations that the management is  increasing  the school fees, he ascertained  that there is no plan by the university  management and further considered the rumour as malicious..

 He further stated that the university  management  is not interested in proscribing the   union.

Conclusively,  He advised  Oyekan Ibukun (Dr. IBK)  and  Falayi Temitope(T-bamz)  to settle their  differences on time to make peace reign amongst students.

OAU Students Union President Impeached

 By Farombi Oluwaseun

The Great Ife Students Union Parliament  after an indefinite recess has today impeached the Students Union President,Mr. Oyekan Ibukun popularly known as Dr. IBK.. The motion  for the impeachment which was deliberated by 51 parliamentarians decided and make a resolution that the President should be impeached..

The motion moved stated that the President should be impeached, moderated the level of Awo Cafe and an official letter should be written to the university management stating his offence clearly

 The Parliamentarians were quoted  to have impeached the President for using the Students Union Bus to convene cultists to campus on November 1st,2017 which threatened the peace of the University community..

However, the impeached Students Union President;Oyekan Ibukun(Dr.IBK) through a release said the impeachment was not true, not in tandem with the sacrosanct constitution of the Union and further tagged  the impeachment as " Kangaroo one..

In a release obtained by OAU Peeps News Agency from the Clerk of the Parliament (Hon. Iyiola Oluwatosin Damilare), he said " the impeachment of the President is more than Valid "..

He stated clearly ""  the President has been constitutional impeached according to Article V, Section 67 Subsection  1-2..

Article V, S.67(1), observed that _any officer of the Union shall cease to hold office if a motion for his removal is supported by two thirds of the member of the SRC present and voting at a meeting provided quorum is formed._ Permit me to relate to you that Parliamentarians present during voting were 51 and the the quorum is (50), 2/3 of the member of SRC of 51 should be 34 and 37 voted which make it more than valid."""

The Clerk further stated that  the general public should deal with Mr. Oyekan Edward Ibukun as a member of the Union and not as President.

After the impeachment of the President, the Parliament  further suspended the Students Union Secretary General; Boluwajaiye Adeoluwa( Fynestboi) and the  Public Relations Officer; Okediji Simon (Zuma) for two weeks for being absent at the Parliamentary sitting..

With the decision of the Parliament as stated by the constitution, the Speaker is expected to assume the office of the President of the Union due to the vacancy of the office of  Vice President of the Students Union..

Omolere Oluwatobi Set To Launch Debut Book

Popular Student of the Department of Nursing Science of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Omolere Oluwatobi is set to launch his debut book.

According to Tobi, who is known to many as Maxi, the book titled "Chronicles of Realities" is an account of the events that occurred in the last Elections of the OAU Chapter of the Nigerian Universities Nursing Students Association in which Tobi was a candidate. The book was co-authored with
Ogunjobi 'Yomi and Justice Oni Clement.

The launch is scheduled to hold by 10am on the 11th November 2017 at HSLT C and everybody is invited.

NIBC, MacForex Ukraine Bring Forex Masterclass To OAU

The organiser of the Nigeria Internet Business Conference NIBC is collaborating with MacForex Ukraine to teach OAU students on Forex Trading. 

The Mastery class is scheduled to begin with an awareness class on the 18th Day of November, 2017and would be succeed by a 2-week professional class on Forex market. 

Foreign Exchange (FX) or Forex market is the largest and most liquid, market in the world. 

A market larger than both stocks and futures markets combined, records above $5.3 trillion transactions daily.

To cap it FX market open 24/7 daily and just like other Internet businesses, you can work anywhere, anytime making money on and off market. 

According to the Chief Operating officer of MacForex; Mr. Leke Ayodele, who spoke to LFBONLINE on Monday, Nigerian youths need to be empowered, not just by buying sewing machine and motorcycles for them, but with the real knowledge of Internet business. 

"Our company have decided to kick start this project with the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, where we would organise free awareness class and a two week professional Mastery class on Forex Trading " He said. 

Meanwhile, registration for the awareness class has begun and students are enjoined to reserve their seats through picatic.com/ftmoau as limited seats are provided for.

Men Do Not Tally

By ‘Joba Ojelabi

I read poetry; good and bad, and I also make attempts to write some; good and bad. Earlier this year, in the middle of all the shouts that came with the Depression talk, I wrote a poem. My poem was merely an attempt to have fun with the word itself; mentally. Paradoxically, inserting a space into the right place in the word breaks it into two words; men tally. In my poem, which might of course come off as mediocre in some circles, I tried to reestablish a point already established by mother nature herself- I tried to state again that as much as we were one species, we are not equal!

Mercy was a 100L student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife. Sometime last week, she killed herself and there have been many postulated reasons why. In acceptance of the truth, no one would ever truly know. Some of her friends and acquaintances have come to state that she had signs of depression and would go on to kill herself for failing one of her courses. This has been the major argument and even from this, several smaller arguments have begun to emerge: Some saying that she was too young to handle the pressures of a University, some of the opinion that the incident was an indication of the failure of the Counselling unit of the school and a number of other diverse thoughts on the issue somehow seem to make it worthy of conversation.

The first major separation I would have from my mother (at least that I consciously remember) happened when I was a little over Nine years of age. I remember at the time, I spoke at lot to myself; way more than I spoke to anyone else around. And on some nights when my eyes needed cleansing, I would somewhere under the wrapper she gave me to protect myself from mosquitoes and cold find the tears to properly express myself. Despite all of this, there was still the pressure to pass my examinations in flying colours from home. Somehow in the middle of all of this, I would learn quite a number of things- most basic of them all being the fact that in the reality of it; “I am alone in this world”. I think this lesson would eventually go on to influence some of the ideals of my adult self. So I believe that as much as age does have a strong influence in determining the mental capacity of a person, sometimes it is not enough assess that capacity. The average age that one is expected to enter the university is Sixteen years but this is not to say that there are not older people who are foolish or younger people who are wise enough to handle the pressures of independence that comes with the University life and so for me, I do not think Mercy’s age should hold too much ground in the discussion of her suicide. After all, too many people have made wiser choices at that age and even older people have committed suicides for more diminutive reasons.

Of course, the argument that the Counselling unit of my dear University would be more effective if she were closer to the students stands valid for me. Counsellor’s offices could be present within respective faculties. Personally, I’m not sure which I’d choose between killing myself and walking down to the Division of Student Affairs to see a counsellor, perhaps there just might not be a difference between both options. Somehow, I have tried to not talk about Depression too much in this course of the editorial. I mean, the entire WHO is talking about Depression this year, not forgetting the thousands of NGOs and other organizations that are also engaging the same topic. For me, I feel before we begin to point fingers or chastise anybody, we recognize at the very foundation that mentally, men do not tally…

Great Ife SU Parliamentarians Storm The National Assembly

By Farombi Oluwaseun

Great Ife Students Union Parliamentarians today visited the National Assembly ,31st October 2017 with over 30delegates.  The delegates led by the Speaker of the Parliament (Rt. Hon Falayi Temitope) stormed the National Assembly Complex   located in the Three Arm Zone of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.

The visitation  spearheaded by the  Summit Committee headed by Hon. Olawuni Tobi A (Leveler) observed proceedings at the Upper and lower Chambers of the National Assembly(Senate and House of Representatives)..

During the Plenary session, Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of the Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara recognized and welcomed Parliamentarians from Great Ife students representative council  with the Deputy Speaker , Hon. Yusuf Sulaiman Lasun  giving a special recognition to all delegates being an alumnus of the institution and thanked them all for the short visitation..

Speaking with OAU Peeps News Agency on the need for the visitation, the Speaker of the Great Ife Parliament, Rt. Hon. Falayi Temitope said the visitation is to  address major issues affecting the general masses of Nigerian students stressing the fact  that the educational sector has lost its course over the years and further urged   the Joint Session of the National Assembly, most importantly , the senate and House of Representative committees on Appropriation to see to the increase in the allocation sum for the educational sector to a minimum of 26% recommendation of the total budget by UNESCO which will bring an end to social and economic unrest among Staff Unions such as ASUU, NASU and Students’ Union

Furthermore, he added  that  a new trend has become the order of the day in campuses over the country as Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts of Higher Institutions are being  dictatorial and tyrannical for Suspension and Expulsion of students who are on  peaceful demonstration of poor welfare condition and underfunding of the education sector and further  demanded  the unconditional reinstatement of all suspended and expelled students in all campuses with immediate effect .

The Delegates also visited some top dignitaries of the national assembly in their offices like the Senator representing Osun East Constituency, Senator  Christopher Omoworare Babajide who was met celebrating his birthday today, he  welcomed the delegation seeing them as one of his own.

However, while addressing the delegates  Senator Omoworare expressed his displeasure concerning the suspended students and promised he will try his best to get them reinstated.. He further advised the delegates to take their studies seriously  and added that the development of the agriculture/education sector and restructuring  remains the paramount step in developing the country.

To end the trip,the delegates have also being  booked to have an inter-parliamentary  sitting with the  Students Representative Council  at the University of Abuja , Gwagwalada,Federal Capital Territory tomorrow

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