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  • UNN gets new Students Union Govt

    UNN gets new Students Union Govt

    Prof Charles Igwe, the Vice-Chancellor (VC), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), has urged Enoch Utazi, the new Students Union Government (SUG) President of the university, to emulate the  good performance of his immediate predecessor, Micheal Abuchi.

    Igwe said this in Nsukka on Wednesday during the inauguration of new UNN SUG executives, elected on October 31, and projects executed by the outgone Abuchi administration.

    He said that the administration of Abuchi remains the best in the history of UNN-SUG because of his good relationship with management and adequate attention to students welfare

    He commended Abuchi for erecting two buildings in the campus in strategic locations that contained 10 toilet facilities each, buying two sienna vehicles to convey physically challenged students to lectures, and offering scholarship to some indigent students.

    “This is the first time we are seeing this kind of achievements from SUGs in this university, the story of SUG in UNN will be incomplete without mentioning the administration of Abuchi.

    “The management is happy with the Abuchi-led SUG and will like the newly- inaugurated administration of Utazi to emulate his good performance.

    “The Sienna buses for physical challenged students will go a long way to end suffering encounter by them in going to lectures and other things.

    He reminded the new SUG executives that their aim of coming to the university was academics and should not allow their involvement in students unionism to undermine their academic performance.

    “I charge the new SUG executives to be serious with their academics, be role models to other students and agents of positive change,” he said.

    The VC commended Prof. Edwin Omeje, the dean of students affairs, for dedication to duty as well as ensuring that SUG elections were transparent, credible, free and fair by using biometric election.

    “My administration will continue to give infrastructures, staff and students’ welfares a priority,” Igwe promised.

    In a remark, Omeje applauded the VC for his non-intervention and non-involvement in the SUG electoral process which had shown him as true father and democrat.

    “The VC ensures that those appointed as members of the University of Nigeria Electoral Commission (UNECO) are men and women of proven integrity and character.

    “This is the fourth time UNN is using biometric to conduct SUG elections and all have free and fair, an indication that UNN can conduct national election in the country with ease.

    “I remind all executives inaugurated today that to whom much is given much is expected, you must be fair in all your dealings.

    “You should always know that corruption destroys both the leaders and the governed, so see corruption as a leprous cancer that must be avoided at all costs,” he said.

    Speaking, Abuchi thanked the Vice-Chancellor for his fatherly care and his interest in the welfare of the students, noting that he was able to achieve what he achieved because of support, and enabling environment provided for him by the VC.

    “I thank, in a special way, the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of Student Affairs, and other principal officers for their advice.

    “It was their support and advice that motivated me and my team in undertaking and completing some projects, as well as maintaining peace and order among students in the campus,” he said.

    In his acceptance speech, Utazi promised that his administration would give students’ welfare priority as well as maintain good relationship with the university management.

    The highlights of the occasion were the inauguration of the new SUG Executives as well as the inauguration of projects executed by the Abuchi-led administration by the Vice-Chancellor.

  • 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.”

  • Ibadan poly suspends SUG, postpones exams over students’ unrest

    Ibadan poly suspends SUG, postpones exams over students’ unrest

    The Polytechnic Ibadan in Oyo State has suspended the activities of the executives of the institution’s Students Union Government (SUG).

    Similarly, the institution has also postponed its first semester examinations.

    This school management made this known via a statement on Monday in Ibadan.

    Registrar of the institution, Modupe Theresa Fawale in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday, disclosed that the examination has been postponed until further notice while the SUG has been suspended indefinitely.

    Fawale said embarking on a protest on a day that they should be sober and commence their examination is ill-advised and politically motivated.

    “The Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan has suspended the Students’ Union Executives of the institution and postponed the first-semester examination intended to commence today, Monday 9th January 2023 as a result of an unwarranted and politically motivated protest embarked upon by the students.

    “The Management further noted that the students’ union breached the rule of decency by locking all the gates that lead to the Institution and thereby causing unwarranted hardship to their colleagues, to the Staff of the Institution, to their host communities, to the neighbouring university of Ibadan, and to the general public at large, most especially those that have official transactions with The Polytechnic Ibadan.

    “Protesting on a day that they should be sober and commence their examination which is a major academic activity leading to the award of their diploma is ill-advised, politically motivated and therefore of no reasonable value to the students and indeed to the development of education”.

    It was gathered that the students staged a protest over the institution’s decision to increase refusal fee from 5,000 to 15000 by the institution’s management.

    Sources within the institution said the students normally pay N30,000 for accommodation every session but students who do not want to stay in the hostel pay N5, 000 refusal fee.

    Findings show that  the main gate and other gates leading to the institution were blocked by the students in the early hours of Monday.

    However, in its reaction to the protest the institution decided to suspend the activities of the SUG

    The Institution also announced that the first-semester examination billed to commence today, Monday 9th January 2023, has been postponed till further notice.

    The institution described the protest as unwarranted and politically motivated.

     

  • Orgy Party: UNIZIK SUG, hotel manager deny involvements in viral X-rated video

    Orgy Party: UNIZIK SUG, hotel manager deny involvements in viral X-rated video

    The Nnamdi Azikwe University Akwa, ( UNIZIK)Students’ Union Government (SUG) has distanced the institution and its students from a sex party that was held in a hotel close to the campus over the weekend.

    There is an online video presently circulating online with clips of male and female persons engaging in live sex at the poolside of a hotel and it was recorded by onlookers who cheered the participants.

    The video sparked uproar on Monday when most commentators identified the participants to be students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who stayed back in their hostels, despite the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    Meanwhile, a social media user, @itz_daddyjoe, who leaked the video, also noted that the sex party was held on Saturday, September 3, at the Wintess Garden Hotel in Ifite Awka, Anambra State, which is one of the hotels located around UNIZIK main campus.

    He further alleged that persons seen in the sex romps video, in the full glare of all who stood to watch, were students of UNIZIK.

    ”It is very unfortunate that the school environment which most of us graduated from is turning into something else. I bet that’s why I couldn’t live in Ifite Awka during my University days. A sex party at Wintess Garden Hotel Ifite Unizik is condemnable…,” he wrote.

    However, the institution’s SUG president and its secretary Charles Ijeomah and JN Ogbonnaya has released a statement distancing the institution’s students from the act.

    The statement reads in part: “This is to inform the public that students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University have nothing to do with the event that happened on 3rd September. It was not a students’ programme.

    “The “Night Wear Party” which featured live porn of people engaging in sexual acts, is morally wrong and condemned by the Students Union Government Executives, is being organized around students’ residential area.

    “In conclusion, “The Night Wear Party” is a personal business of some show promoters in Awka, and has nothing to do with the University or our students. We are known for moral decency, as we all study to be certified ‘in Character and Learning.’”

    However, while the SUG confirmed that the said party was held at Wintess Garden Hotel, Ifite, on the said date, but dissociated her students from the porn video; the Management of the hotel,

    General Manager of Wintess Garden Hotel & Suites Limited, where  the act was said to have taken place has also reacted

    Obumneme Azoruwa denies that the activities took place at the hotel

    , “Our attention has been drawn to the video clips that have gone viral.

    “We hereby use this medium to inform the general public that such an immoral act never happens in our hotel. This is only a concocted story by mischief makers to bring our name to the mud.

    “Our Hotel is one of the best hotels in Awka and duly registered with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and we cannot condescend to the level of promoting and condoning open sexual acts and the likes.

    “We, therefore, urge the general public and our numerous customers to disregard such rumours because it never happened at Wintess Garden Hotel & Suites Limited.”

     

  • ASUU Strike: FUTA students barricade Akure-Ilesa Highway

    ASUU Strike: FUTA students barricade Akure-Ilesa Highway

    Students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Monday barricaded the Akure-Ilesa Highway, protesting the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    The action of the students forced many motorists and travellers to be stranded.

    The protesters blocked the highway at the main entrance of the Institution, chanting different solidarity songs and displaying placards with various inscriptions such as: “End ASUU Strike”, “Save our future”, “Stop Toying with our Future.”

    Speaking with newsmen, Mr Abiodun Ibiyemi, the President of the Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the university, said:”we can no longer bear the brunt of the feud between ASUU and the Federal Government.

    ”We call for well-established resolution for the benefit of the students.

    ”Our future is being challenged by constant and lingering strike”,

    Thenewsguru.com reports that the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, on May 10 condemned the strike extension and declared a nationwide protest.

    Asefon made this known following the ASUU’s announcement that it has extended its strike for 12 more weeks.

    ”Having exhausted all windows of constructive engagement with the government. I, on behalf of the national leadership of NANS, therefore, declare National Action from May 10.

    ”The national action tagged “Operation Test Run” shall be held in all the 36 states of the federation. Federal roads across the 36 states shall be occupied for a minimum of three hours.

    NAN also reports that on Feb. 15, ASUU began a four-week rollover strike following the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.

    The National President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said the decision was taken after the union’s National Executive Committee meeting.

    Osodeke said since the last meeting the union had with the Federal Government in December 2021, it had not received any formal invitation from government.

    ASUU extended the action by another two months to afford the government more time to address all of its demands.

    ASUU also accused the government of displaying an indifferent attitude toward its demands.

    Osodeke, in a statement to announce the extension of the rollover strike, noted that the national executive council of the union “was disappointed that Government did not treat the matters involved with utmost urgency they deserved during the four-week period as expected of a reasonable, responsive, and well-meaning administration”.

    He said NEC concluded that the government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks.

    The statement read in part: “The meeting was called to review developments since the Union declared a four weeks total and comprehensive roll-over strike action at the end of its NEC meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos on Feb. 12 to Feb. 13.

    sodeke said the strike continues over the government’s failure to “satisfactorily” implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the Union in December 2020 on funding for revitalisation of public universities (both Federal and States), renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ ASUU Agreement and the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).

    Other demands of the union as listed by ASUU include Earned Academic Allowances, State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries, and non-remittance of third-party deductions.

  • Uniben dissolves SUG, suspends union leaders

    Uniben dissolves SUG, suspends union leaders

    The authorities of University of Benin, on Wednesday, announced the suspension of members of the three arms of Students’ Union Government in the institution.

    The institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Dr Benedicta Ehanire, in a statement issued in Benin, said that a caretaker committee would be put in place to manage the affairs of the union.

    Ehanire said that the institution’s Senate took the decision to forestall breakdown of law and order, following the planned protest by the students’ union body against the shift in the school’s academic calendar.

    “The union had persistently engaged in subversive activities, including incitement of other students to disobey lawful instructions by the school authorities.

    “This is in spite of concerted efforts by management, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, to provide their basic needs, such as water and electricity as well as other facilities necessary for learning.

    “Consequently, the bank account of the union has been suspended and their secretariat sealed.

    “All members of the erstwhile executives are to hand over their students’ union identification cards to the Chief Security Officer of the university immediately.

    “They are also to vacate the privileged hostel accommodations accorded them with immediate effect”, she said.

    Ehanire noted that the senate, however, commended the students for resisting attempts by the students’ union executives to drag them into unwarranted agitations.

    “The Senate wishes the students the best in their ongoing examinations and a restful break from April 1until their return to campus for the second semester on April 18,” she said.

    Efforts to get the reaction of the president of the suspended union, Benjamin Egwu, however, proved abortive as he neither picked nor returned the calls put through to him.

    Meanwhile in another statement, the institution’s senate announced the review of the 2019/2020 academic calendar.

    Ehanire quoted the senate, presided over by the vice- chancellor as affirming that first semester examinations would end on Thursday, as earlier scheduled.

  • Tension as school of nursing dissolves SUG excos

    Tension as school of nursing dissolves SUG excos

    There is tension at the Delta State School of Nursing, Warri following what is being suspected to be a controversial dissolution of the Students’ Union Government (SUG) by the state Ministry of Health.

    In a letter dated July 3, 2020 and addressed to the president of SUG of the institution, the school management accused the SUG leadership of collecting unapproved monies from students.

    The letter signed by the principal, C. Oteri (Mrs.) urged the SUG president, Eugene Esiri, to explain why further disciplinary action should not be taken against him for the extortion.

    “I also wish to inform you that on the orders of the Honourable Commissioner for Health through the Department of Nursing, the SUG stands dissolved till further notice.

    “You are required to handover all properties in your possession to the Students’ Affairs Officer immediately,” the letter further directed.

    However, students of the institution are irked by the development as they are accusing the school management and the supervising Ministry of Health of intimidation.

    The SUG president denied collecting illegal fees, saying that what students have be paying was the normal dues recognised by the institution.

    Meanwhile, investigation revealed that the SUG was mobilising students for a state-wide protest against plans by the ministry to introduce Local Community Nurses (LCN) and Local Community Midwives (LCM) when the dissolution hammer fell on them.

    The LCN and LCM programmes, it was gathered, seeks to bridge the huge gap created by the obvious deficit of trained nurses and midwives in rural areas across the state.

    But the students are opposed to the initiative on ground that it will promote quackery as the said trainees will not go through the normal rudiments of training.

    “What they want to do is to train them on the job, more like auxiliary nurses and midwives. These people will lack the academic training that is highly required in the profession.

    “Meanwhile, there are lots of qualified yet unemployed nurses and midwives who are willing to work in rural areas but they want to cut cost and promote quackery in the process,” a source said.

    The source added that the major aim of the sudden dissolution was to weaken the ability of the SUG to mobilise for the planned state-wide protest against the LCN and LCM programmes, noting that the SUG opposition was in consonance with the stand of the state chapter of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM).

    The source further alleged that the SUG was also dissolved for the management to have unfettered access to the students’ account.

    “I think the plan of the DNS is to get the SUG exco out of the way so that together with the principal, they can get access to the SUG purse.

    “All they are interested in right now is where and how to loot money. That is their major area of specialization,” the source alleged.

  • FUOYE VC proscribes SUG as police deny killing students

    …announces indefinite closure

    The Ekiti Police Command on Wednesday debunked the claim that the police had killed some students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), who protested against epileptic power supply to the institution on Tuesday evening.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest had led to the suspension of the tour of the 16 local government areas by Mrs Bisi Fayemi, wife of Gov. Kayode Fayemi by one day, while the university authorities had announced the indefinite closure of the school.

    The institution’s authorities had proscribed the students union body, while the tour of the local councils by the governor’s wife continues on Sept. 12.

    DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command, said, however, that he was not aware of any death emanating from the students protests.

    Ikechukwu described the death story in a statement he released in Ado-Ekiti as “baseless, unfounded and only intends to incite and create panic in the minds of the peace-loving people of Ekiti and the general public”.

    He noted that a weapon was recovered from one of the protesting students, adding that the quick intervention of the police at the scene prevented further damage to public and private properties.

    “The police officers at the scene pacified the protesting students, removed the blockade they erected and dispersed them peacefully.

    “However, the protesting students turned around in their numbers and took their plight to Her Excellency, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, the wife of Gov. Kayode Fayemi, who was at an empowerment programme in the town.

    “The protesting students suddenly became unruly, hostile and took laws into their hands, and vandalised the motorcade of the governors wife.

    “The protesting students did not stop at that, they also assaulted the policemen who were at the scene to maintain law and order, and damaged police vehicle found at the scene.

    “Investigation is ongoing to bring the perpetrators to book,” Ikechukwu said.

    Meanwhile, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, on Wednesday announced the immediate closure of the institution and proscription of the Students’ Union Government (SUG).

    According to a statement by the institution, the unfortunate incident acted out by the students forced the authorities of the Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) to announce the immediate and indefinite closure of the university, to forestall further breakdown of law and order.

    “In the same vein, the students union of the institution is hereby disbanded indefinitely.

    “Following this closure, the students population are hereby ordered to vacate the university premises not later than 10.00 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2019.

    “Further developments will be communicated in due course,” the statement quoted the vice-chancellor as saying.

    The university condemned the violence that followed the protest by the students against the epileptic power supply to the community.

    “Our findings revealed that the students gathered themselves and blocked the Abuja-Ado and Ijan-Ikole highways from the early hours of Tuesday till about 2.00 p.m.

    “After much persuasions by the university ‘s internal security personnel and the federal security agencies, they dispersed.

    “Only for the news to get to the university authority thereafter that the students had assaulted the motorcade of Mrs Bisi Fayemi and vandalised some vehicles in the motorcade,” it said.

    “Sensing that her excellency was under attack, in view of the continued aggression of the students, the security personnel attached to her convoy had to repel the attack and some students were injured in the process.

    “In view of the foregoing, the management at an emergency meeting discussed and reviewed the unruly behaviour of the students.

    “Such behaviour, which included the destruction of vehicles and burning of a police van, as well as threat to lives, compelled the university management to take these urgent decisions.”

  • Unilorin: ‘We do not charge tuition’ – Management

    Unilorin: ‘We do not charge tuition’ – Management

    The University of Ilorin on Sunday said it does not charge tuition fees in line with the policy of the Federal Government.

    According to a statement signed by Mr Kunle Akogun, Unilorin Director of Corporate Affairs, misinformation is currently trending on the social media over slight adjustments in the university’s charges starting from the 2018/2019 academic session.

    “We wish to put record straight and assure our ever responsible students of the management’s good intentions.

    “The University of Ilorin, in line with federal government policy, does not charge tuition fees.

    “What we have here is university and faculty charges,” he said.

    Akogun stated that the items that make up the charges are simply fundamental and basic.

    “For instance, examinations remain sacrosanct, same for provision of state-of-the-art health and library facilities, in addition to stable electricity and uninterrupted water supply.

    “The implication is that what is obtainable about 12 years ago can no longer sustain the university in this century.

    “It should be pointed out that even with the slight adjustment in charges, Unilorin is still among the lowest charging federal universities in the country,’’ he said.

    He said this can be confirmed by comparing statistics of what is payable in other universities.

    The director noted that this does not foreclose negotiation between the management and student leaders for reasonable concession.

    “Even if only one naira is added, there will be reaction.

    “The question is how justifiable is the reaction in the face of current realities in providing qualitative university education with needed facilities that guarantee such.

    “The management, ever so responsive, has set in motion a high level negotiation with stakeholders for possible reduction,” he said.

    Akogun also stated that as part of the strategy, a meeting had been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, between the leadership of the Students’ Union, Faculty Presidents and officials of the Students’ Affairs to find a middle course solution to the matter.