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  • Police in search of missing EKSU female undergraduate

    Police in search of missing EKSU female undergraduate

    The Police Command in Ekiti has alerted the general public about the sudden disappearance of a female undergraduate of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti.

    The alert is contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Sunday Abutu on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti.

    “This is to inform members of the public that one Hellen Okorie of No.15, Ayoba Quarters, Behind Sadiat Hotel Irona Area, Ado Ekiti, left home on Sept. 13, at about 08:00 hrs to an unknown destination and never returned.

    “She is 23-year-old, chocolate in complexion, speaks English and lbo languages fluently and has no tribal mark. She is a 500 level student of Ekiti State University.

    “While the command has commenced investigation to unravel her whereabouts, anyone with useful information concerning her present location should kindly contact the nearest police station or call 09064050086,” the statement said.

    It urged members of the public to ensure adequate dissemination of the information.

  • EKSU shut down for two weeks over students’ protest

    EKSU shut down for two weeks over students’ protest

    The management of Ekiti State University, (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, announced a two-week shut down of all academic activities in the institution.

    The students of the institution staged a protest for an imposed N5,000 late registration fee by the university.

    The EKSU management had announced that late payment of school fees would attract a N10,000 penalty fee but the students expressed their dissatisfaction and this made the management reduce the fee to N5,000.

    However, the students rejected the N5,000 reduction.

    The protest, which started at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, had the students converge at the university’s main gate and were led by the Student Union President, Ogunsanya Dotun.

    This led to the disruption of economic and vehicular movements within the university premises.

    “No to Penalty Fees,” and “Late Registration Fee not for School with High Fees” were written on the placards carried by the students during the protest.

    A statement by the Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs of the university, Mr Bode Olofinmuagun, made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, read, “The Vice-Chancellor, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Professor Edward Olanipekun, on behalf of the university Senate, has approved the suspension of academic activities on campus for two weeks with effect from today, April 11.

    “Parents and guardians are hereby advised to invite their children and wards home immediately.

    “Any student found wandering around the university premises does so at his/her own risk.”

  • ASUU: Varsity fixes August 29 as resumption date

    ASUU: Varsity fixes August 29 as resumption date

    The management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, has approved that the institution should pull out of the ASUU strike and resume academic activities on the 29th of August,2022.

    This was coming after six months the ASUU members, the EKSU chapter, had joined the ongoing strike declared by the university lecturers to press for urgent reform of the country’s ivory towers among another myriad of demands.

    EKSU, after consultations with various unions in the institution unanimously agreed that it should be opened for academic activities.

    The decision to re-open was taken at the institution’s management meeting last week .

    Recall that ASUU president, Professor Osodeke had on one occasion while granting an interview on Arise TV, called State Universities ‘quacks’

    The management had risen in defense of the university and called on ASUU’s leader to retract the comment and tender an apology

    The Vice-Chancellor said the resumption was a decision taken by stakeholders of the institution.

    “It was a decision taken by the stakeholders about the effect of this prolonged strike on the institution and our position has been made public about our intention to begin work and restore normalcy”.

    Also, a statement by the EKSU’s Registrar, Mr. Ife Oluwole, said the resumption affected the old students and the newly admired ones for the 2021/22 academic session.

    Oluwole said: “Stakeholders in Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, which included the Vice Chancellor and other Principal Officers, Provosts, Deans, Directors, Heads of Departments, Professors and Officers on grade level 14 and above met on Sunday, 21st August 2022 to review the situation in the University.

    “Stakeholders noted the socio-economic effects of the current strike action embarked upon by the staff unions in the University on other stakeholders (parents, students, alumni, and staff) and the plea by the parents.

    “It further noted that the industrial action is having negative effects not only on the students but also on the University.

  • 2022 UTME: Heavy downpour, faulty biometrics mar beginning of exams

    2022 UTME: Heavy downpour, faulty biometrics mar beginning of exams

    …JAMB tasks officials on guidelines

    …as faulty biometric forces UTME’s postponement in EKSU CBT centre

    Many candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Lagos, on Friday, battled an early morning downpour to get to their centres as the examination got underway.

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)-organised examination began in some 750 accredited centres nationwide, with 1.7 million candidates registered to participate.

    In centres monitored in Lagos, candidates scheduled for the first session at 7.00 a.m. were mostly affected by the downpour, with some arriving late and being denied entry.

    A correspondent who visited the WAEC Test and Training Centre (WTTC), one of the accredited centres for the examination in Ogba, noticed a group of candidates, who were desperately seeking for help, after having missed the test.

    The same situation also applied at the Wisdom House Centre, off Yaya Abatan, also in Ogba, Command Secondary School Ipaja and Lagooz Schools Orile-Agege centres.

    Other centres visited are Timeon Kairos Polytechnic and Professional Institute, Ile-Epo, Lagos Abeokuta Express way.

    Despite the downpour, however, many candidates, accompanied by their parents, still turned up as early as 6.00a.m. to beat the examination time in centres visited.

    Some of the candidates who failed to meet up with their schedule, blamed the heavy rain for their plight, appealing to JAMB’s management to look into the matter.

    Miss Esther Oladokun told NAN that she lives at Ajunwon in Ogun, a border with Lagos, and that knowing full well the time of her examination, left her house at 5.30 a.m.

    She said that she was, unfortunately, caught up in the rain and could not arrive at the WTTC in good time.

    According to her, the vehicle she entered broke down as a result of flood.

    She said she had to get down to seek another solution to her challenge only to get to her centre at 8.13 a.m but was not allowed access by the examination officials.

    Miss Chiamaka Ezeaputa said left her home at Ota, near Bells University, another Ogun border community, near Lagos, as early as 5: am, hoping to be at her centre before 6.30 a.m.

    She said that following the early morning rain, there was huge traffic and this created problems for her.

    The candidate said that after being stuck, she had to take a motorcycle at an exhorbitant rate, but arrived the centre at 9.20 a.m.

    She said that she was denied access into the hall by the examination officials.

    Miss Blessing Akindoyin, who said she lives at Sango, also blamed the early morning downpour for her lateness.

    She claimed there was difficulty in getting commercial vehicles and she got to her centre late for the 7.00a.m. examination.

    One of the centre supervisors at the WTTC who did not want her name in print, told NAN that the examination began at exactly 8.30 a.m.

    She said that lateness to the examination centre was not allowed.

    “This examination commenced at 8:30 a.m. Even with the rain, I got here at about 5:30 a.m. and everything was set.

    “All we needed for the commencement of the examination was in place.

    “We were actually supposed to start the examination by 8.00 a.m. but because of the rain, we had to give 30 minutes grace.

    “At least you can see the hall is almost filled to capacity. These ones too, came here early enough, despite the rain.

    “We have over 240 candidates each, in both the centre one and two, out of the 250 capacity benchmark for each of these centres,” she said.

    She said that so far, the excercise had been seamless, and all the backup equipment in the centre, were top notch.

    The official further lauded the board for efforts put in place to improve the conduct of the examination nationwide, every year.

    “As I speak, the board has improved technical facilities such as the Funtronic Scanner for thumb printing.

    “With this equipment, you hardly have incidents of inability to capture the finger print of any candidate. It is indeed, a plus for JAMB,” she stated.

    Another official at the Wisdom House, which also houses two centres, told NAN that late coming to any examination was considered as an examination malpractice.

    She noted that none of the examination officials had the power to change the situation.

    The official was of the view that only the Registrar had such prerogative of mercy.

    According to her, the examination started at about 8:30 am, as initially, there was a technical hitch, but it was corrected almost immediately.

    She said that beyond that, there had not been any other incident at her centre as at the time she was speaking.

    Reacting to the plight of the candidates that missed the examination as a result of the rain, Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head, Protocol and Public Affairs Officer, expressed sadness at the development.

    “It is unfortunate this has happened. However, technical consideration will not allow us to reschedule the examination.

    “If for instance, something happened to a centre as a whole, or there is a technical collapse in a centre, that one is understandable and the board, could start considering a way out of it.

    “But a situation where some candidates for the examination at a specific schedule attempted the examination, while others failed to, for whatever reason, that examination will not be rescheduled.

    “We do not reschedule examination, it has come and gone. There are rules guiding all examinations; ours is not an exception,” Benjamin said.

    The UTME, which started on Monday, will run until May 14, with several sessions daily at the accredited centres.

    JAMB tasks officials on guidelines as 2022 UTME begins nationwide

    Meanwhile, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Friday had tasked its officials to adhere strictly to its guidelines as the 2022 exercise begins for over 1.7 million candidates nationwide.

    The board gave the directive in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar in Abuja.

    It stated that biometric verification would be the only mode for admittance of candidates into the examination centre.

    The board said strict adherence to this directive was required by all involved.

    JAMB had reiterated that all candidates would be checked into the examination hall, using the Biometric Verification Machine (BVM) which would also serve as a register of attendance, in line with its policy.

    It urged officials to ensure no candidate was kept waiting if he or she could not be verified, but to ensure such candidate was recaptured at the centre before leaving.

    The board further stated that only genuine cases would be subsequently treated in cases of biometric hitch.

    JAMB also urged its officials to ensure that all report forms provided for the exercise were accurately filled and completed.

    It explained that the information gathered from the forms was expected to assist the board in “establishing happenings during the examination for reference purposes as well as serve as evidence for punitive measures.”

    The board said it would continue to consult with critical stakeholders, including technical officers and Advisors, Resident Monitors, Supervisors and its eight monitoring groups, to deliver a hitch-free exercise.

    The board’s exercise had since been scheduled to begin from Friday to May 16 in its 757 centres nationwide.

    JAMB had also warned its candidates that the ban on prohibited items was still in force and necessary sanctions would be meted out to violators of its code of conduct.

    “The list of the banned items within the examination hall include but not limited to flash drives, smart watches, calculators, recorders, mobile phones, spy reading glasses, jewelleries, among others,” JAMB said.

    Faulty biometric forces UTME’s postponement in EKSU CBT centre

    Meanwhile, the first batch of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at Ekiti State University (EKSU) CBT centre in Ado-Ekiti was, on Friday, postponed indefinitely due to faulty biometric system.

    A correspondent, who monitored the exercise across the 12 centres in the state, reports that the development left some of the affected candidates stranded for hours.

    As at 11:00 a.m. when NAN visited the centre, the first batch of the candidates, scheduled to begin their examination by 7:00 a.m., had yet to be cleared through the biometric, as the system was malfunctioning.

    The development also created altercation between UTME officials, particularly the State Chief External Examiner of UTME, Mrs Smaranda Olarinde, who was on monitoring visit to the centre and some aggrieved parents of the candidates.

    Some of the parents, who spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed that they had arrived the state a day earlier with their children and that they had been at the centre as early as 6:00 a.m. only to be confronted with the biometric issue.

    The parents, who expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the examination at the centre, said that the security situation in the country forced them to accompany their children to the centre for the examination.

    A candidate, Gideon Adejuyigbe, expressed disappointment with the indefinite rescheduling of the examination.

    Adejuyigbe said that the situation had further been compounded by the fact that some of the candidates were expected to commence their West Africa School Certificate Examination (WASCE) in a few days’ time.

    The second batch of candidates at the centre was later cleared through the biometric to undertake their examinations at about 1:00 p.m.

    Olarinde said that the clearance was made possible due to the efforts of the JAMB technical personnel in the state.

    Addressing the affected candidates, the JAMB official said that their examinations had been rescheduled and asked them to always check their profile portals for information on the new date.

    “We have been working round the clock to ensure that the technical problem is resolved but as it is now, your examination will be rescheduled.

    “Candidates for the second batch are already in the hall and they will be followed by the third batch. So I want to implore you to be patient and always check on your profile portals from now on for developments on the examination,” she said.

    Earlier, the JAMB Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Akeem Alaaya, said that the exercise recorded significant improvement over the previous ones.

    “In a situation where you have only two or three candidates being absent out of 200 in a centre, I think it’s 95 per cent improvement compare with the previous exercises where more than 20 candidates could be absence in a centre.

    Alaaya also expressed satisfaction with the general conduct of the candidates, especially as regards compliance with the laid down rules and regulations.

    “The candidates have been very cooperative and orderly and this is highly commendable,” he said.

    Other centres visited included: JAMB Ekiti office centre on New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti, Afe Babalola CBT Centre, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti Centre and Federal University, Oye-Ekiti centre, amongst others.

  • Ekiti varsity proscribes ASUU, SSANU, NASU, others, shuts down institution

    Ekiti varsity proscribes ASUU, SSANU, NASU, others, shuts down institution

    Management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, on Saturday proscribed all students’ unions and shut down the institution indefinitely following a protest by the students over poor staff welfare.
    The university authorities have also instructed the students to vacate the campus without delay.
    These are contained in a statement by Mr Bode Olofinmuagun, Head, Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs of the university.
    Olofinmuagun said the Governing Council of the university decided to close down the institution in order to safeguard lives and property.
    “The Governing Council of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti announces the immediate closure of the University.
    “All academic activities are hereby suspended.
    “This is as a result of the continuous disruption of lawful activities on campus which have endangered lives and property in the past one week.
    “Consequently, to guarantee peace and orderliness on campus, all the four unions, namely ASUU, SSANU, NAAT and NASU) are hereby proscribed with immediate effect.
    “All students are advised to vacate the campus forthwith,” he said.
    Crisis between the university authorities and students erupted on Monday after workers of the institution across the various unions, hired a live band and turned the main entrance of the institution to a party ground.
    According to the workers, the move was part of a strategy to press home their demands over alleged unpaid salaries and allowances, among other things.
    The workers’ action paralysed both academic and non-academic activities on the campus as both workers and students were denied access to the campus.
    Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Azeez Aguda, the Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), EKSU branch, said members’ action would continue until government prevailed on the university authorities to accede to their demands.
    He listed the demands to include payment of July, August, and September salaries (2018), remittance of cooperative and pension dues, and reinstatement of sacked workers, among several others.
    The unions also accused the university authorities of reneging on the commitments of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) they signed with student representatives, an event that was witnessed by members of the state’s House of Assembly in the year 2020.
    Reacting, the university authorities said that most of the demands of the students were made during the lifetime of the previous administration.
    The authorities, however, said that some of the demands had been addressed while others were in the process of being tackled.
    The authorities said it was not true that the university had reneged on the MoA they signed with the various unions in 2020.
  • Dethronement: Ekiti sympathises with Sanusi, affirms position as EKSU chancellor

    Dethronement: Ekiti sympathises with Sanusi, affirms position as EKSU chancellor

    Ekiti Government says it will continue to recognise the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, as the Chancellor of the state-owned Ekiti State University, (EKSU).

    The state government’s position was made known by the authorities of EKSU in Ado Ekiti in a letter addressed to the former emir.

    Muhammadu Sanusi II was dethroned on March 9 by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State.

    Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti had appointed Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Chancellor of Ekiti State University in 2019.

    A letter dated March 12, 2020, from EKSU’s management and signed by the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Eddy Olanipekun, confirmed the retention of the former emir as the Chancellor of EKSU.

    The letter addressed to the former Emir said that the university would continue to recognise Sanusi as the Chancellor of the university, despite his present travail.

    The letter titled: ‘Letter of Solidarity’, said the step was taken, owing to the university’s firm belief that Lamido’s wealth of experience would be useful to the university.

    It reads: “We will continue to recognise you as our Chancellor with a firm belief that your wealth of experience would undoubtedly be beneficial to our university.”

    The university sympathised with Lamido on his travail, saying the deposed Emir’s rulership in Kano would forever remain a reference point.

    “The news of your dethronement rendered the entire university community devastated and that has gone to confirm the assertion that only God gives power and at the same time relieves if he so wishes.

    “The university acknowledges the fact that you had done your best within the limited time God availed you on the throne.

    “On behalf of the Governing Council, Senate, staff, and students of EKSU, where you are currently serving as the Chancellor, we want to identify with you at this critical moment of your life.

    “We will also like to reassure you of our unflinching support and cooperation as you traverse a new terrain,” the letter concluded.

  • Sacked EKSU lecturer maintains innocence on sexual harassment, sues students

    A lecturer dismissed by the management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Mr Olola Aduwo, over an allegation of sexual harassment against a female student of the university, has denied he ever admitted to the offence before any panel.

    Aduwo, in a release he gave to journalists yesterday, accused the panel set up to investigate the allegation of sexually harassing a female student of the university levelled against him of bias and a calculated attempt to discredit his image and bring his reputation into disrepute.

    The former lecturer expressed his disappointment that “a notable university like EKSU will descend so low to the level of character assassination and palpable falsehood.”

    Aduwo declared, “The proceedings at the trial were video-recorded and a copy of the video clip is with the university. I challenge the university to produce a copy of the video clip and show where I admitted committing the alleged offence.”

    The EKSU Governing Council had on Thursday December 5, 2019 approved the recommendations of the senior disciplinary committee that recommended Aduwo’s dismissal from the service of the university.

    But the former lecturer, punching a hole in the circular that contained the news of his dismissal, noted, “It was boldly written that I admitted to the allegations and confirmed the authenticity of the report indicting me on the alleged case of sexual harassment.

    “I want to state abundantly clear that at no point in time during my appearance before the panel did I confirm that I’m guilty, or did I admit to the allegations of sexual harassment against my person.

    “In the initial press statement made by the university, it falsely stated that I lured the said lady to a hotel where the alleged sexual harassment took place, whereas it was the said lady that burst into my house with the police and some miscreants when I was with a friend to frame me up.”

    According to him, all the investigations made by the university pointed to the fact that he wasn’t culpable nor did he ever harass or intimidate any student at any time in all his service years in the university as a lecturer.

    Aduwo declared the decision of the University Council and the management as not acceptable to him, and that he had contacted his legal team to challenge his “unjust dismissal” from the university.

    “I’m very sure that I will get justice and bring my accusers to shame. In fact, I have sued the students at the centre of this gross violation of my fundamental rights and they will be brought to book,” he stated.

  • EKSU inducts 43 pioneer medical students after a decade

    The College of Medicine, Ekiti State University (EKSU) on Monday inducted 43 pioneer medical students of the institution after a decade.
    Speaking at the ceremony in Ado Ekiti, Gov. Kayode Fayemi charged the management of the university to strive toward achieving more breakthrough in medical research that will place it on enviable webometric ranking.
    He said, “I want to also charge the management to ensure prudent use of resources available and embark on more research works for favourable rating of this university on webometric ranking.”
    According to him, nothing is comparable to steady research in tertiary institutions, especially on matters relating to medical studies.
    He said: “I am particularly happy about the outstanding performance of these doctors in their final examinations.
    “I was reliably told that the inductees recorded 100 per cent in their examinations with a distinction in their MBBS examinations.
    “The first governor of this state, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, started the idea of a College of Medicine for EKSU in 2001, but in 2004, it came to an abrupt end because the government then did not believe the state could fund a medical college at that time.
    “But in 2008, another governor, Chief Segun Oni, started the process of re-establishing the college and I want to thank him for signing the bill that re-established the college into law.
    “Medical education is held in high esteem all over the world and this is expected because it touches on the lives of human beings
    The governor said he was convinced that the new doctors would contribute to the healthcare policy of the state.
    “Ekiti state is ready to employ as many as possible among them that are ready to work in the state.
    “We are committed to more robust healthcare coverage, especially for pregnant women and children below five and the vulnerable, who could have been shut out of quality medicare due to their inability to afford the bills.
    “I want to commend you for you perseverance, resilience, commitment and hardwork and you must know that medical education is continuous.
    “Also, you have to be good ambassadors of the university and the state.
    Fayemi charged the management of the university to ensure prudent deployment of avalaible resources.
    The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olubunmi Ajayi, thanked the governor for his intervention at a time the institution was bogged down by paucity of funds.
    “If not for this intervention, this epoch-making event could not have been possible.
    “Even the Wife of the Governor, Bisi, paid the tuition fees of some of these doctors, when finance was becoming a problem,” Ajayi said.
    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was the university’s maiden induction after a decade.
    Dr Bankole Emmanuel emerged the best graduating student with distinction in Surgery and Clinical Pathology.
    NAN reports that the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr. T.A. Sanusi, administered the oath on the inductees.
    He warned that the council would not hesitate to met out appropriate sanctions on any of them that flouted the rules guiding the medical profession.
    The Provost of the college, Prof. Kehinde Oluwadiya, said the doctors had got the best of training, which accounted for the 100 per cent pass recorded in their final examinations, with a distinction in Surgery.
    Oluwadiya said, “Our last but main problem was how to secure accreditation for this college because the last government made it clear that it was not ready to help but we were optimistic that Gov. Fayemi would help because of his background as an academic.
    “He helped us in an unparalleled manner by providing all we needed to secure the accreditation,” he said.

  • Sex-for-marks claim: Ekiti varsity probes, queries lecturer

    Sex-for-marks claim: Ekiti varsity probes, queries lecturer

    The Management of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekti has said that it has begun investigations into allegation of sexual misconduct involving one of its lecturers, Dr. O.O Aduwo.

    Mr. Bode Olofinmuagun, the Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs of the institution in a statement he signed in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, said that the university had also queried the lecturer concerned.

    “The attention of the management of Ekiti State University has been drawn to a video that has gone viral on an alleged sex scandal involving one of our lecturers.

    “The video allegedly fingered one Dr O. O. Aduwo of the Department of Accounting as the culprit and (a) query has been issued to the accused lecturer, to state his own side of the story.

    “This will be followed by a panel which would dig deep into the matter,” he said.

    Olofinmuagun said that university would not condone any act of sexual harassment in the University.

    “And as such, it issued a query to the concerned lecturer to defend himself in the spirit of due process.

    “Thereafter, a panel of investigation will be constituted to get to the root of the matter, while the findings of the panel will be made public.

    “The general public is hereby assured that management will continue to be transparent and will not allow such a matter that could smear its good image to be swept under the carpet.”

    The lecturer was allegedly caught pants down a couple of days ago, trying to have carnal knowledge of one of his students, (name withheld), as a condition for her to pass his course.