NYSC Releases Date For 2018 Batch "A" PCMs Online Registration

ATTENTION ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR 2018 BATCH "A" PCMs

This is to inform all 2018 Batch "A" Prospective Corps Members that online registration will start on 26 March, 2018 as proposed.

Click on the link to view details http://www.nysc.gov.ng/mobtable.html

Thank you.

Signed:
Management.

Striking Workers Stop Mock UTME In OAU

The Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scheduled for Monday in Obafemi Awolowo University could not hold. The striking lecturers stopped the examination soon after the students started, as power supply was shut down at the ICT centre where it is been conducted.

According to reports, efforts by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, and the Police Area Commander in Ile-Ife, Mr. Funso Adegboyega, to ensure the situation was rescued proved abortive. Pleas by the duo with the striking workers to restore the electricity so that the candidates could continue with the mock test fell on deaf ears.

Since last year December, members of the Senior Staff Academic of Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union and the National Academic of Educational Technologists have been on a national strike, making academic activities difficult to proceed normally across public universities in the country.

As at press time, it is not clear whether or not, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will stick to its plan to use OAU ICT centre for the main exam already scheduled to hold between March 7 and 19, if the strike action persists.

Federal Government Scholarship Awards 2017/2018

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION FEDERAL SCHOLARSHIP BOARD, ABUJA PLOT 245 SAMUEL ADEMULEGUN STREET, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

2018 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TENABLE IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu hereby invites applications from qualified Nigerian students in Nigerian public tertiary institutions to participate in the 2017/2018 selection interviews for scholarship awards tenable in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Application forms are available online at www.education.gov.ng and can be completed and printed by prospective candidates for endorsement by their HOD and Registrars of their institutions.

2. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
i. UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE:
All applicants must be full-time students in their second year of study and above in Federal or State Universities, they must have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 on a 5.0 point scale or its equivalent in the previous academic year’s examinations.

ii. HIGHER NATIONAL DILPLOMA (HND):
All applicants must be full-time students in their second year of study in any of the Federal or State Polytechnics or Monotechnics, they must have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.5 on a 4 scale or its equivalent in the previous academic year’s examinations.

iii. NIGERIAN CERTIFICATE IN EEDUCATION (NCE):
All applicants must be full-time students in their second year of study and above in any Federal or State Colleges of Education and they must have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.5 on a 4 point scale, or its equivalent in the previous academic year’s examinations.

iv POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP:
Applicants must be registered full-time students of Federal or State universities and must have a minimum of second class Honours (Upper Division) in their 1st degree.

3. METHOD OF APPLICATION:
Completed application forms should be printed and submitted at the various interview centers alongside the following photocopies:
(i) Letter of admission to the institution
(ii) Current Course Registration Form
(iii) Student Identity Card
(iv) Last sessional CGPA result
(v) Letter of identification from State/Local Government of origin
(vi) Two passport-size photographs with name fully written at the back

(a) Interview Dates:
Northern States: (North East, North West & North Central): 19th - 23th March, 2018 Southern States: (South East, South West & South South): 26th - 30th March, 2018

(b) Interview venue: Federal Unity Colleges in each State Capital including FCT.
Where there is no Unity School in the State Capital, candidates should contact: The Secretary, State Scholarship Board in that State.

Note:
i) All qualified candidates who have completed their prescribed application forms for the Nigerian Awards scholarship should attend selection interviews as scheduled in paragraph 4 above;
ii) Application forms that are incorrect, incompletely filled or without the necessary documents will not be processed;
iii) All Application forms must be duly signed and stamped by their HOD and Registrar Candidates must attend interviews with the following:
a. Writing materials such as pen, HB pencil and eraser.
b. Originals of certificates for screening
iv) Interview starts by 8.00a.m. Daily.
v) Candidates are advised to adhere strictly to the interview schedule.

Correspondences should be addressed to: - The Director/Secretary Federal Scholarship Board FME Annex, Opp. Arewa Suites Central Business District Abuja

Kindly check www.education.gov.ng from time to time for possible changes or additional information.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION DOES NOT ATTRACT ANY PROCESSING FEE. THEREFORE, BEWARE OF FRAUDSTERS!

For further inquiries,
Email: fsb2011@gmail.com, fsb@education.gov.ng

SIGNED:
ARCHITECT SUNDAY ECHONO PERMANENT SECRETARY FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

2017/2018 Session: Payment Activities Activated For Returning and Fresh Students

This to inform the generality of great Ife students that the payment activities  for 2017/2018 session has commenced. Fresh students should note that they can apply for accommodation immediately after paying acceptance, Development & Tuition Fees.

To Check the Fees Structure, Click Here

OAU Fees Structure..
To check Your Admission Status,Click Here
Admission Status

2017/2018 SESSION FEES PAYMENT GUIDE FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

1. The University is aware of some unscrupulous elements spreading false information advising new students to travel down to the OAU Campus at Ile-Ife, Osun State to make their payments using fees collection agents. Any such persons or agents should be reported to the central security post on campus.

2. BEWARE OF FRAUDSTERS!!! OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE DOES NOT EMPLOY AGENTS OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR THE COLLECTION OR PROCESSING OF FEES. ENSURE THAT ALL FEES PAYMENT ARE MADE ONLY ON THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT PORTAL.

3. Candidates who made Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife their first choice and took part in the 2017 Obafemi Awolowo University Post UTME screening exercise can now check their admission status forthe 2017/2018 academic year via the “Check Admission Status” link (http://eportal.oauife.edu.ng/admissions.php) on the University’s E-PORTAL site as from 22nd

February, 2018.

4. Once the admission is ascertained, such candidate should to log on to University eportal using their UTME Registration Number as “Username” and surname as “Password” and follow the instructions for 

payments and registration as laid out. 

5. Confirmation of admission on the OAU student portal shall commence with the payment of a non-refundable acceptance fee of N20,000.00 (fresh students only). Payment commences on 22nd

February, 2018. FRESH students have until March 12 2018 to accept the admission offer.

6. New students are to note that Fees Payment (Acceptance, School Fees, etc.,) must be initiated on the Student Information Portal (http://eportal.oauife.edu.ng) ONLY, after which payment can be made either on-line using ATM/Debit cards or physically at any commercial bank branch using the REMITA code generated on the eportal.

7. Candidates should then proceed to select payment activity and then choose the Type of Payment (Acceptance, Main Charges, Accommodation….) and indicate Mode of Payment (Bank Branch /Transfer / Master Card i.e. ATM) in order to link the payment to REMITA. If Bank Branch is selected, download RRR (Remita Retrieval Reference) and use it to pay by cash in any BANK OF YOUR CHOICE that accepts cash payment to REMITA. If either TRANSFER or MASTER CARD is chosen, supply the additional information to effect the payment. Please, note that you can access the University e-portal anywhere to effect your payment in any branch of the Banks nearest to you effective 22nd February, 2018.

8. Candidates should note that ONLY payments that are “successful” on the REMITA platform are deemed actually PAID. Successful payments can be confirmed on the E-Portal (http://eportal.oauife.edu.ng) via the following steps after login:

a. Select [Payment Activities], Chose [View Payment Status], Verify that the status of the payment represented by the appropriate RRR number shows “successful”.

9. Candidates making ONLINE payments using DEBIT cards should please note that due to Internet/Network Provider service congestion, confirmation of payment might be delayed. 

Consequently, patience should be exercised in order to avoid multiple payments and account deductions.

JAC Strike Beats Harder As Major Roads On OAU Campus Blocked

By Farombi Oluwaseun

The Obafemi Awolowo University Joint Action Committee, JAC, of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU; and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT strike which  began last year  have turned  total and comprehensive yesterday immediately the students of the institution ended their Rain semester examinations last week..

As at the time of filing this report, major roads on OAU Campus have been blocked thereby restricting vehicular movement.

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OAU’s ASUU Pulls Out Of National Body

The local branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities of Obafemi Awolowo University (ASUU-OAU) has pulled out of the national body.

It also formed a new association, following prolonged faceoff between the national and local chapter of the union.

The OAU chapter’s decision to pull out of the national body was taken at a congress on February 12, which rejected the resolutions of ASUU’s National Executive Council (ASUU-NEC) meeting on the face-off between it and the parent body.

It was learnt that the congress decided “to constitute itself into a branch that is totally independent of NEC, adopt appropriate name and open a new branch account for the check-off dues of its members in this regards”.

This is contained in the local branch’s resolution signed by the chairman of its caretaker committee, Dr Niyi Sunmonu.

Last years, 732 of the 1,371 OAU academic workers wrote the university management to stop payment of their check-off dues to the national body in protest against the way the latter handled the branch’s crisis.

Other reasons given by OAU’s branch to form a new union include the alleged unilateral removal of the elected treasurer by ASUU national president and the alleged transfer of N11 million from OAU branch account to ASUU national account.

The congress noted that the removal of the duly elected treasurer and transfer of the money prompted majority of the members to request that the deduction of their check-off dues to ASUU national body be stopped.

Also, the decision of ASUU’s NEC to accept the suspended and contentious result of the vice chancellor selection and the rejection of the caretaker committee to run the affairs of the union, after the presiding officers had abandoned the congress midway on Thursday, October 20, 2016, which he conveyed, was another reason they pulled out.

ASUU’s OAU has been at loggerhead with the national body over the constitution of a caretaker committee, following the sack of the Dr. Caleb Aborisade-led executives by the congress.

This was the fallout of the cancelled vice chancellor selection by the Federal Government.

ASUU’s national body rejected the sack of Aborisade-led exco but the local branch insisted on Dr. Niyi Summonu-led caretaker committee and stopped the remittance of check-off dues to the national body.

Reacting to ASUU’s NEC meeting of February 3 and 4, which expelled three OAU branch caretaker committee members and the suspension of 13 others, the council rejected the sanctions and passed a vote of confidence on Dr. Summonu-led caretaker committee.

According to the congress resolutions, it reaffirmed its total, unalloyed and unflinching confidence in the caretaker committee and those sanctioned.

The aggrieved OAU academic workers also resolved to constitute an electoral committee to conduct the election of its executives within two weeks and appoint a five-member electoral committee.

Another major decision was the composition of a constitution-drafting committee for the branch for which three members were appointed.

The branch also decided to write the vice chancellor to stop the deduction of check-off dues for lecturers at OAU due to the information that the bursar failed to implement the written requests by some members that the deduction of their check-off dues be stopped.

It was also gathered that ASUU-NEC suspended Aborisade for six months for allegedly misrepresenting NEC, while the Akure zonal coordinator, Dr. Alex Odiyi, was issued a warning letter.

2018 UTME:JAMB to conduct Mock Test On Feb 26

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said the much anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would now hold on Feb. 26

The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin said this in an interview in Lagos.

According to him, a total of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s UTME are expected to write the test.

“We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26

“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of non-academic unions of federal universities nation wide.

“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,” Benjamin said.

He explained that the examination was expected to be hitch free because the board had successfully reduced incidences of malfunctioning of computers by electronically integrating the systems to see their functionality and effectiveness through link tests.

“What this means is that, at the end if the exercise, whatever system that is not seen will not be used for the mock examination
The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profiles.

“In previous examinations this number of candidates would have paid for the forms but through our efficient and effective system of ensuring that candidates do not waste resources, we decided to introduce the profile generating regime.

“By this method, candidates will first have to generate personal profiles before proceeding to obtain pins, in between which they are open to deciding whether to go ahead to pay for the registration documents or otherwise,” Benjamin explained.

The main UTME is expected to hold nationwide from March 9 to March 17