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  • Moshood Abiola Polytechnic gets 10th Rector

    Moshood Abiola Polytechnic gets 10th Rector

    Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has approved the appointment of  Dr Babatunde Jolaoso as the 10th substantive Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, with effect from Dec . 6.

    The Head, Public Relations and Protocol, MAPOLY, Yemi Ajibola, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abeokuta.

    According to the statement, the appointment is contained in a letter dated Dec. 3 and  signed by the state’s Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu.

    The letter stated that the tenure of the outgoing Rector, Dr Adeoye Odedeji, will expire Dec. 5, after the completion of a single term of five years since 2019.

    “Until his appointment,  Jolaoso is a Chief Lecturer in the Department of Architecture of the polytechnic, the post he held since 2015. He joined the services of the polytechnic as Laboratory Assistant at Oke-Egunya Campus in 1982.

    “He is an Alumnus of Ogun State Polytechnic (now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta). He studied Architecture for both National Diploma and Higher National Diploma with Upper Credit from 1985 to 1988 respectively.

    “He proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for his BSc and M.Sc in Architecture between 1989 and 1994 respectively,” the statement said.

    According to the statement, Jolaoso is also a member, Association of Architectural Educators in Nigeria and Incorporate Member, as well as Chartered Institution of Building (UK).

    “He has about 78 Publications and four Research Activities to his credit. He speaks English, Yoruba and Hausa languages fluently,” the statement stated.

  • Female Polytechnic student, abducted, killed in Ogun state

    Female Polytechnic student, abducted, killed in Ogun state

    Happiness Odeh, a student of the  Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, who was abducted a few weeks ago has been reportedly killed by her abductors.

    She had recently won the MISS MAPOLY beauty contest in early August.

    The ND2 student of Mass Communication was said to have been kidnapped on her way to Ipara, in Ode Remo on Tuesday evening

    It was gathered that the beauty queen was kidnapped along Iperu road by some unknown persons who it was gathered, raped her before killing her in cold blood.

    The MAPOLY students Union government has confirmed the incident.

    According to a statement signed by the Students Union President, Sodiq Ajani, and the Public Relations Officer, Joy Okolie, the deceased was kidnapped three days ago while going to visit a movie location.

    “Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Students Union (MAPSU) announces the untimely death of Miss Happiness Odeh, a Mass Communication student of MAPOLY.

    “According to reports, she was abducted along Iperu road to her destination. The deceased left Abeokuta three days ago to visit a movie location at Ipara, Ode-Remo, with the consent of her parents.

    “Contrary to the rumours flying around, her death is not related to her status as the new Miss MAPOLY. She won the award on the 3rd of August and the movie location she attended has nothing to do with the beauty pageantry on campus.

    “We commiserate with her family, friends, and colleagues. May Almighty God grant us all the fortitude to bear this painful loss. Continue to rest in the bosom of the Lord,” the statement read.

    Speaking with our correspondent on Saturday, the Students Union President said the murderers took away the victim’s phone.

    According to him, the police have commenced investigations, making efforts to get the assailants arrested.

    Ajani informed that the body of the slain student had been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

    “It was so pathetic. The kidnappers killed her and went away with her phone. Her body was found inside the bush along Iperu road. The body has been deposited at the mortuary. We were at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, yesterday with the parents. May God rest her soul,” he said

     

  • MAPOLY students lock down school over delay in release of results

    MAPOLY students lock down school over delay in release of results

    Students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, stormed the institution Monday morning and shut the main gate leading to the school, denying academic and non-academic staff access into the compound.

    It was gathered that the final year students at the Higher National Diploma level formed the bulk of those responsible for the locking of the school gate.

    Sources among them said they were protesting the non-release of their final year results by the academic staff.

    The students had concluded their final examination in January 2018, and had hoped to be mobilised for the one-year National Youth Service Corps programme in April 2018.

    They argued that with the delay in the release of their results, it is uncertain that they will be able to meet up with the April batch.

  • MAPOLY lecturers suspend three-month strike

    MAPOLY lecturers suspend three-month strike

    Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta Chapter, on Wednesday suspended their strike, which is now over three months old.

    The suspension was announced by the chapter’s Chairman, Mr Kola Abiola, after a congress held at the institution’s campus to resolve the crisis between the Ogun State Government and the union.

    Abiola stated that the congress decided to call off the strike following the pressure put on it by many concerned prominent personalities in the state.

    He, however, said the union was hopeful that its demands would be met by the government to prompt it to conduct the suspended semester examination.

    “Today, we had an emergency congress and after several appeals by eminent stakeholders within and outside the state, the congress therefore decided to suspend the strike.

    “The government is aware of all our key issues, all the issues which resulted in the strike are all known to the government.

    “When the crisis started we actually went to prominent personalities to intervene and now that they have intervened we think it is high time we give government the room for discussion while academic activities go on.

    “We have suspended the strike, and it is now left for the management to announce when academic activities will commence,” the chapter chairman said.

    Abiola explained that the union had never blackmailed anybody during the crisis, saying that on no occasion did MAPOLY ASUP insulted the state government.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the union and the state government had been at loggerheads over the institution’s upgrading to Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology.

    The union also had issues with the government over the planned transfer of some of the institution’s lecturers to the newly-established Ogun State Polytechnic at Ipokia.

     

    NAN

  • JUST IN: NUC approves upgrade of MAPOLY, now Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology

    JUST IN: NUC approves upgrade of MAPOLY, now Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology

    The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Monday upgraded the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, into Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology (MAUST).

    The Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, officially announced the take-off of the university in Abuja at the formal presentation of the school’s recognition letter to Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun.

    Rasheed said that the university would be recognised as the 45th State University in the country.

    According to him, the take-off of the university will mean that Ogun State will now have three state universities.

    “Ogun state is the intellectual capital of black Africa.

    “From the NUC records, Olabisi Onabanjo University and Tai Solarin University of Education are two state universities but the addition of the University of Science and Technology will make it three.

    “What this shows is that the governor is really doing well as he has the education of the state at heart.

    “Beginning from July 3, 2017, the Polytechnic has now been recognised as the 45th state university in Nigeria.”

    Rasheed also noted that the NUC did not just create the university for access alone but the integrity and sanctity of the degree in Nigeria university.

    He said an average graduate of Nigerian university with a very good average degree earned (2-2) in a good university in Nigeria and qualifies for any university in the world performs better.

    “Our qualities are of international standard, we have high standard in the quality of education in Nigeria.

    “We are still working to review our curriculum to make it more competitive and ensure that it is of international best standards to solve our problems.

    “We want to graduates students who are familiar with our culture, tradition, history, science; and we want those graduates to be citizens of the world who can fit in anywhere.

    “We want to assure Nigerians that the quality of our degree is quite okay and we are working to improve on it,” he said.

    He, however, called on other governors to take a cue from Ogun state governor and advance the course of the university system in the country.

    Gov. Ibikunle Amosun in his response said for any nation to get it right, the tertiary institutions must do well.

    Amosun said the upgrade of the Polytechnic to a university was done through the enabling law of the Ogun State House of Assembly.

    He added that the university would be a reference point as the government of the state was committed to leave no stone unturned to take the university to its greater height.

    He added that certain funds had been created for the funding of the university.

    “As we are upgrading the Polytechnic to a University, we are earlier in Kaduna today to establish a new Polytechnic because we don’t want the Polytechnic to die like that, so we are relocating the Polytechnic to Ipokia area of the state.

    “The university of science and technology will now be in Abeokuta.

    The governor said a technical committee had been brainstorming in the last six years on the way forward to bring this to fruition.

    He added that the university would also help to develop the human capital that would improve the industrial hub of the state.

    He, however, promised to provide science and technology solution to areas in health, security and environmental challenges bedeviling the country.

     

  • Ogun state set to convert Mapoly into a University

    Procedures are now officially on going for the conversion of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic to the Moshood Abiola University of Technology.

    The Ogun State House of Assembly, on Thursday, acknowledged receipt of the bills from governor Ibikunle Amosun. The bills also included the establishment, incorporation, constitution and functions of the Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.

    The governor’s letter was read by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Suraju Ishola Adekunbi.

    The letter read: ”I forward herewith bills for (i) Law to provide for the establishment of Moshood Abiola University of Technology and for matters of administration and discipline of students connected therewith;

    “(ii) Law to provide for the establishment, incorporation, constitution and functions of the Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia and for other matters incidental thereto or connected therewith, as approved at the 51 meeting of the State Executive Council held on 19th of December, 2016 for the kind consideration and passage of the House of Assembly.”

    It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan had tried to change University of Lagos (UNILAG) to Moshood Abiola University, but had been met with stiff resistance.