President Buhari Orders Reopening Of OAU

The president Buhari has directed that all offices and facilities of Obafemi Awolowo University be opened for normal administrative and academic activities to enable a quick resolution of the impasse current crisis in the school.

He equally directed that the Senate of the University should convene a meeting to recommend a qualified member to the Honorable Minister of Education for appointment as Acting Vice-Chancellor.

Consequently, a special meeting of the senate of the institution has been scheduled to hold tomorrow 21st July, 2016.

Depending on the outcome of the meeting, the institution may re-open next week for academic activities.

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OAU Students Ordered To Vacate Campus Till Further Notice

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University has ordered students

to vacate the school premises. This was made known in a circular

issued at the end of an emergency senate meeting held yesterday over

the current crisis in the institution.

The circular which was signed by the registrar Dotun Awoyemi reads

“The Senate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has approved that

the students of the University proceed on a mid-semester break with

effect from Monday, July 13, 2015. Consequently, all students are

advised to vacate the Halls of Residence. The date of resumption will

be announced later.”

It is believed that the sudden mid semester break is in connection with

the severe protest staged by the Non-Academic Staff of the University

over unpaid allowances.

It was learnt that the protest by NASU affected the supply of water

and electric power within the campus and have denied students the

benefits of such amenities which may have necessitated the sudden

call for a mid semester break by the management.

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59 OAU Students Awarded Scholarship Worth N3.5m

Fifty-nine students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has benefited from a scholarship award worth N3.5m. sponsored by the OAU Muslim Graduates’ Association.

This was during the annual reunion convention of the association held at the university.

The National President of the association, Prof. Abdul Egbewole, who noted that previous beneficiaries of the scholarship programme had performed excellently, said the organisation had given scholarships worth N17.56m to students of the institution since inception.

He said the association, founded about two decades ago, was aimed at educating the public on social ills.

In response to this gesture, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of OAU, Prof. Ayobami Salami, said, “For many years they have been consistent and exceptional in awarding scholarships to students. If we have five or six of them, the story will not be the same.” 

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OAU SUG Calls On Police To Produce Driver Of Bus That Crushed Colleague

The Students Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, has accused the Osun State Police Command of hiding the driver of a private school bus which crushed a 200 level law student of the university to death.

Mary Ibitolu was knocked down from a motorcycle and crushed to death on May 6 by the driver of a school bus whose vehicle was faulty.

The Vice President-elect of the OAU Students Union, Miss Opeyemi Oladunjoye,  spoke with journalists during a candle light procession held in honour of the deceased in Osogbo on Tuesday night.

Old students of Our Lady and Saint Francis Catholic College, Osogbo, which the deceased attended, organised the procession in collaboration with OAU students.

She said, “We are  not satisfied with the response of the Police Public Relations Officer  concerning the whereabouts of the driver.

“The police seem to be hiding something from us as regards the school bus driver that killed our Motunrayo. The PPRO refused to tell us plainly whether the driver was arrested, where he is being kept and when prosecution would commence.”

She said  the SUG  would do everything to ensure justice in the case.

The OAU President-elect of the SUG,  Mr. Kayode Omotayo,  in a tribute circulated at the event, poured encomium on the deceased just like many others.

Omotayo  blamed the government and the hospital, which he alleged did not attend to the deceased on time, for her death.

He said, “The Great Ife union believes that the inept of the government both at the state and federal level have continued to hunt the innocent Nigerian students.

“We discovered that the late Miss. Mary Motunrayo Ibitolu, who was an emblem of beauty and brilliance,  after her accident, was not quickly attended to by medical personnel; the vehicle that hit her was not, by any standard of traffic regulations, supposed to be on the road.

“However, we have come to the reality that she is no more with us. The Great Ife community continues to mourn Miss Mary Motunrayo Ibitolu who will forever remain in our heart.”

Efforts to speak to the PPRO, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, were  unsuccessful as calls to her telephone set, did not connect, but the text message sent to her, which indicated it was delivered, was not responded to.

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