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  • Dennis Osadebay University embraces virtual learning

    Dennis Osadebay University embraces virtual learning

    Dennis Osadebay University (DOU), Asaba, Delta State, has infused technology into its pedagogy by adopting hybrid teaching.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof Ben Oghojafor, Vice Chancellor of DOU made this known while speaking with journalists in Asaba on Monday.

    Prof Oghojafor, represented by Prof Dode Oghenedoro, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, disclosed that the hybrid teaching facility located in the administrative building can reach students all over the world through virtual learning.

    “Where we are now is the administrative building of this university. In the council chamber, we have an electronic smart board with which we can teach students from any location in the world from  here.

    “In the aftermath of COVID-19, the world embraced digital learning and when this administrative building was conceived, considerations were made for virtual learning. So, we have that capacity here,” Oghojafor said.

    Recall that DOU is one of the three universities established by the Delta State Government and approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in 2021.

    The university, located in Anwai, Asaba was formerly a campus of the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka. The main focus of the campus then was agriculture.

    However, the university is now comprised of six faculties: Agriculture, Science, Management and Social Sciences, Environmental Science, Arts and Computing.

    Oghojafor said the administrative building was graciously provided by the State government as part of efforts to upgrade facilities in the university.

    “There was nothing like this here two years ago. As of November 2021, the Vice Chancellor’s office was one makeshift building. What you are seeing was graciously provided to us by the government in less than two years after the university started.

    “The project started in the administration of Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and was completed by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori,” he said.

    Speaking further, Oghojafor said the Oborevwori administration also completed the Faculty of Agriculture multipurpose complex and two auditoriums with 1000 capacity.

    “The Faculty of Agriculture complex houses staff offices, from the Dean to all categories of lecturers. We have laboratories; we have classrooms, and we have conference centres here.

    “As a matter of fact, to my right and my left are adjoining buildings to this. Those are 500 capacity auditoriums attached to this. The one to left has a mini library that is also digitally inclined,” he said.

  • Asaba 2023: National Youth Games to be hosted in Delta

    Asaba 2023: National Youth Games to be hosted in Delta

    Delta state has been awarded the hosting right of  seventh   National Youth Games  (NYG) by the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development.

    The decision to grant Delta state the hosting rights was reached at a stakeholders’ meeting upon the successful hosting of the just concluded 21st National Sports Festival which was also hosted by Delta state.

    The statement announcing Delta as the host of the 2023 National Youth Games was signed and released by Mohammed Manga, Director, Press, and Public Relations, of the sports ministry.

    The State has equally expressed its readiness to host the Games from February 8-18, 2023, as unanimously agreed by the stakeholders at a virtual meeting that took place on Wednesday, January 4, 2023.

    The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, Ismaila Abubakar, stated that the National Youth Games has since inception become a veritable ground for harvesting the huge talents that abound within the country.

    “Many of the discovered athletes have been nurtured to elite level by the Ministry where several of them have been excelling at the international stage by posting podium performances for the country,” Abubakar said.

    ”Other objectives of the Games is to promote National Unity; curb age cheating in Sports and Youth restiveness as well as establish a standard programme for athletes’ succession.”

    Ismaila assured that the Ministry is poised to ensure that the gains and objectives of the Youth Games are sustained hence, the Ministry’s determination to seek an alternative host venue for the National Youth Games.

    Meanwhile, the sport complex of the Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba will host  the 2023  National Youth Games.

    The National Youth Games will kick start in February 8 and will end on the 18th of same month.

     

  • Dennis Osadebay University to start academic activities Feb. – Okowa

    Dennis Osadebay University to start academic activities Feb. – Okowa

    Delta Governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday said Dennis Osadebay University, Asaba, would commence full academic activities before the end of February, 2022.

    Okowa disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists shortly after inspecting ongoing projects in the new university as well as the offices and residential apartments of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and the Chief of Staff, under construction.

    He stated that all the courses of the university presented for the first year programme had been accredited by National Universities Commission (NUC), adding that no fewer than 500 students had already been offered admission to study various courses as accredited for the university.

    According to him, more students who meet the admission requirements for the accredited courses in the university would be offerred admission by the institution before the admissions come to an end.

    The Governor, who inspected the Administration Building, Vice Chancellor’s Lodge, Faculty of Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture and the university’s gate house, expressed satisfaction with the level of work so far executed by the contractors.

    While saying that the administrative building and the Vice-Chancellor’s lodge would be completed in March, 2022, he stated that Faculty of Environmental Science which was nearing completion would be ready in February.

    On Faculty of Agriculture, Okowa described it as “the star project’’ and said that it would be completed in October, 2022 and that construction of the roads connecting various faculties in the university were on course.

    He also inspected the university’s gate under construction and affirmed that the Anwai/Ugbolu road would be expanded and beautified to link Ugbolu and give colour to the university and the Leisure Park and Film Village being built by his administration.

    He added that the Faculty of Agricultural Science would accommodate a 500-seater auditorium and two 250-sitting-capacity auditoriums, including the Faculty’s building.

    “I am quite satisfied with the level of works done in the various projects at the Dennis Osadebay University.

    “We started from the administration block which has gone very far and the contractor has promised to deliver the project in March. From the progress of work, obviously, it will be delivered in March.

    “Then, we went to the Vice Chancellor’s Lodge which just started three and half months ago and we have a finishimng date of March. Also this year, and l think that with the work done, that is quite fast and very achievable.

    “From there, we went to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences which is near completion. We were told that by the middle of February, they will be through with that project but l am giving them an extension up to the end February.

    “I must commend all the contractors for a job well done. We also saw the road project that is ongoing, that takes us very quickly into the Faculty of Environmental Sciences unlike the road we took the last time we went to inspect that project.

    “But the biggest is our star project, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences; it is a huge project. The contractor has told us that he will deliver the project in December but we told him that he should try to find how he can deliver it by the end of September, this year.

    “I believe that it is doable. He has a lot of workers on site but l am sure that he can get workers who can even run shift duties.

    “That is really a very huge building with a 500-seater auditorium and two 250-seater auditoriums along with the main faculty building.

    “We believe that by the time they complete the project, there will be a lot of space. We call it Faculty of Agricultural Science but I am sure that it is quite a huge building that will take more than the agricultural sciences faculty.

    “So, for the Dennis Osadebay University, a lot has been done. We are happy with the progress of work recorded in the university and l do hope that at the beginning of April, there will be a change in that campus. For now it is no longer looking like a glorified primary school,” he added.

    At the new SSG and Chief of Staff official quarters and offices, the governor announced that the project would be completed in March, 2022, and pledged his administration’s commitment to completing all ongoing projects in line with contractual agreement.

    The Governor, in company with some commissioners, was conducted round the projects by the project consultant, Mr Kester Ifeadi.