Category: Campus Life

Provost of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education Oto/Ijanikin Prof Bidemi Balikis Lafiaji-Okunneye assumed the leadership of the institution last month. In this interview with OLADIPUPO IBRAHEEM OLADEJI, Prof Lafiaji-Okunneye laid out her plans for the 62 year-old institution. She also speaks about some contending issues that predated her assumption and how she intends to resolve them

 

What are those things you met on ground and how did you intend to consolidate?

What we meant on ground was fantastic; and when this happens, the challenge is on you to surpass what is on ground.

I realised we have a beautiful infrastructure in place. Therefore, we hope to improve on existing infrastructure. We will aspire to get all we need from agencies concerned with infrastructural development.

The Lagos State government has also been quite generous to the college. We, therefore, vow to be prudent with the available resources so as to ensure government’s presence and contributions are felt.

We also intend to improve on our welfare packages and motivate our staff the more towards greater productivity. It is when workers are well taken care of that they can give the institution their best.

Before your assumption, there was a crisis under the immediate past administration, and there were rumours that the then Governing Council waded in but almost literally took over the control of the college.

Well, I want to disagree with that. The day-to-day running of the college is, by law, entrusted with Provost. If you have heard certain things contrary to this position, it might not be very true.

In the Condition of Service, it is expressively stated there. Let me also note here that the Governing Council is saddled with policy issues, and other issues which the Provost might bring to the knowledge of the Council.

Issues of unqualified teachers is also a major concern and Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has been at the vanguard of this battle

You are correct. Nonetheless, let me say the teachers we train here are qualified.

What happens is that people include cheap labour in order to compromise quality. Here, we train qualified teachers.

They are licensed and qualified. Ahead of their graduation, we ensure they are registered with TRCN and their certificates reviewed every year.

I must confess to you that this is of serious concern to us because when a teacher underperforms, such person might be asked where he or she graduated from.

We want to churn out quality teachers. We know what goes around comes around.  If we don’t train good teachers, it will come back to us.

This institution is one of the leading colleges of education nationwide. As the new Provost of the college, how do you intend to consolidate on this standard?

Our vision under my watch is that AOCOED will continue to be a leading teacher education institution characterised by a type of education that is all-inclusive.

We shall focus on quality and ensure our graduates are those we can boldly say were very well trained.

Our mission is to be the frontiers of knowledge among pre-service and in-service teachers. Other objective is to consolidate on our relationship between the college, the regulatory authorities and other stakeholders.

As an off-campus institution, what relationship exists between the college and its host communities?

We have a very robust relationship with our staff unions and host communities and we intend to build more that. This is to ensure our students live in a more conducive environment.

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Our students are spread across Oto and ijanikin communities. We have told the communities to report any erring students to us. They have been cooperative too.

How would your administration manage staff crisis?

We intend to create a synergy between our staff unions and government by encouraging a dialogue. We shall be proactive. Ultimately, our strategy is that we may not have to go through strike, or carry placards on the streets before our issues are resolved.

The unions are meant to be for checks and balances. So when we are not getting it right, they should be able to draw our attention to it.

Though sometimes, the union cannot be right all the time, but when we dialogue, issues will be placed on the cards and sorted out.

Upon my resumption, we have interacted with our unions and we want to operate an open-door policy so as to carry everybody along.

 

The phenomenon of academic fraud is something that is witnessed in almost all tertiary institutions nationwide. How will your administration tackle this?

We frown at such at both at academic and students level. We will not tolerate thieves in the system. As soon as you are discovered, we shall hand you over to the appropriate authority.

And the normal process is to issue you query, ask you to face the panel and the process goes on like that until you are eased out of the system, if found guilty.

For years, enrolment in colleges of education has been declining owing to poor morale and remuneration of teachers.

This equally gives us concern! But it might interest you that teaching is the only guaranteed job in this present economy.

Many who studied one programme or another still come back to education because there are no jobs; that is why you see them taking up Post Graduate Diploma in Education because they know they must be certificated before they can teach.

Now, the enrolment is increasing because people especially women, are beginning to appreciate more the role of teaching profession. For instance, as against last year, our enrolment (in AOCOED) has increased.

When you visit other developed countries, teachers enjoy better welfare and remunerations; and because we often do not compromise training of teachers here, many that graduate seek greener pastures in more developed climes where they are better paid, especially at the ECCE (Early Childhood Care Education) stage.

So how do you, as an educationist, encourage young secondary school leavers who do not want to take up teaching as a profession?

I’m sure many of us here didn’t  set out to study education. I personally wanted to study Mass Communication. I was going round universities seeking admission, only for me to find myself in Physical and Health Education.

Today, when I sit back and gather my students in a class to teach, I then ask myself ‘I’m I still not communicating?’

So until we educate these children against aspiring for what is beyond their ability, things might not get better. The parents are also guilty for choosing career path for their wards.

When you ask them why they are doing so, they will tell you they do not want their children to suffer in future. Ideally, my best advice is to allow these children follow their passion.

From Deborah Omoare, Philip Anjorin and Rachael Daramola

 

Students Union of  the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), has reiterated its commitment to relieving students’ hardship as regards their tuition fee.

Speaking with CAMPUSLIFE, the immediate past president AAUA-SU, Adesomoju Samuel, said the union would liaise with the institution’s alumni body and other interested parties to set up a committee that would look into the financial predicaments of their colleagues who are finding it difficult to pay their tuition fees.

He said: “The committee will be empowered by the constitution of the Student Union to go across all faculties and get names of genuine, sincere students who don’t have the means of payment, either half or full,” Adesomoju began.

“They must be students who owe arrears of up to two semesters or more. Some are in 400-Level but even as we speak, they are yet to pay for 200-Level. Such student’s fee will be covered for a session, leaving such student to pay for 300-Level alone.”

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Furthermore, Adesomoju who would be handing over the baton to the new executive, recalled how the initiative mooted by his administration, would now be actuallised by his successor.

Adesomoju noted that the said financial aid would not be determined by student’s academic feat. He thanked kind-hearted Nigerians who according to him, have been donating to the cause.

“We’re not using academic criteria. So if you have a genuine, sincere reason to show that you’re unable to pay the tuition fee, you’re eligible. We have about 1000 students who’re in this situation and we’ll try to give them consideration as much as we can.

“It is a move by the Students’ Union body. The money might not come during my era. Definitely, it is coming for the next administration and people are already donating to the Students’ Union to achieve this target. So, I will implore the incoming administration to be wise and patient as this scheme cannot cover everybody,” Adesomoju concluded.

From Umar Yunusa

 

Students of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL), have urged  the Students’ Union and the school management to alleviate the transportation challenge that has been their lot, especially when they are heading for lectures during peak hours.

CAMPUSLIFE gathered that since the commencement of the ongoing semester, students find it difficult getting into lecture halls before schedule, owing to shortage of means of transportation such as motorcycles, buses and tricycles.

One of the students who pleaded anonymity, appealed to the authority to review the cost of services rendered by motocyclists in accordance with respective distances covered.

“The cause (of scarcity in transportation) is unknown to me; but I suggest that the school management should provide more means of transportation because they only have few tricycles which only operate between main campus to kobo axis. By this, scarcity of motorcycles would reduce,” she said.

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Similarly, Amina Mohammed a 200-Level Physics Education undergraduate, attributed the development to a handful of transport operators who are officially allowed by management to operate within the campus.

In line with what Amina, said, Siraj Bala, a 200-Level student of Agricultural Science, added, “The cyclist men should be persuaded to register in order to reduce the difficulties students undergo,” she said.

A third year student of Public Administration, Isah Muhammad, had a different opinion. “This shortage of bike is as a result of too much of admission offered students this academic session.

Suggesting a way out, Isah charged the SU leaders to provide more buses that would be help convey students to their various destination.

Also, Hamza Ibrahim Abaga, a final year students of Mass Communication, urged the school management to put a modality such as inviting non-governmental organisation to invest in order to assist the school transportation system.

Agbo Agbo

 

I  used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity.

Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author who writes a colourless book gets sponsored to represent Nigerian literature overseas; and a young woman with no secretarial skills to speak of gets promoted to the oga’s office faster than any of her properly trained colleagues.”

The quote above is the introductory paragraph of an article written by a Dutch Journalist, Femke van Zeijl whom Nigerians in cyberspace later named ‘Funke’ because of her firm grasp of Nigerian issues.

She started a blog that lasted almost a year chronicling her experiences in the country wondering why a nation so blessed has remained so docile without demanding for accountability and the need for things to be done properly.

I must point out that she didn’t write what hasn’t been written by Nigerians over the years. The interest – I guess – is because she was able to hit the nail on the head being a foreigner.

She did add – in the article – that corruption per se does not necessarily stand in the way of development. Otherwise a country like Indonesia – then number 118 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index not that far removed from Nigeria’s then 139 – would never have made it to the G-20 group of major economies.

An even more serious obstacle to development is the lack of repercussions for underachievement. Who in Nigeria is ever held accountable for substandard performance?

Not done, it took this foreign journalist just a short period to start wondering why we seem to wallow so much in mediocrity.

“Nigeria,” she wrote “is the opposite of a meritocracy: you do not earn by achieving. You get to be whom and where you are by knowing the right people.

Whether you work in an office, for an enterprise or an NGO, at a construction site or in government, your abilities hardly ever are the reason you got there.

Performing well, let alone with excellence, is not a requirement, in fact, it is discouraged. It would be too threatening: showing you’re more intelligent, capable or competent than the ‘oga at the top’ (who, as a rule, is not an overachiever either) is career suicide.”

If this article had been written by a Nigerian, people would want to know what part of the country he’s from, his political leaning, whether he’s a “hailer” or a “wailer” and other such appellations and labels.

My focus today will be in the area of sport development. Nigeria won a bronze medal – yes a bronze medal – in the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.

Some insinuated that during Jonathan’s era the country did not win any medal during the 2012 London games, so the one bronze medal was a plus for the Buhari administration!

It is appalling that we are a country that seems to detest excellence. Recall that the kits for Nigerian athletes that participated in the Olympics arrived Rio two days to the closing ceremony! More appalling is the fact that the incident passed with no one taking responsibility. That is why it is not uncommon to find Nigerians “congratulating” each other for such a woeful outing.

Why can’t our policy makers for once sit down, reflect and make the necessary changes that need to be made by seeing sports development as part of overall economic development.

In Singapore, the country gives any athlete that wins a gold medal over $300,000 reward. Where does this amount come from? We should do well to ask them and learn some new tricks.

Without an iota of doubt, the potentials to achieve lofty heights in sports abound in Nigeria. From football, to boxing, weightlifting, athletics, volleyball, handball, badminton, lawn tennis, cycling, team sports and others, the country certainly does not lack in manpower, talents and potentials.

A group of Nigerian women sponsored themselves to compete in Bobsleigh at the last summer Olympics without official support.

By wearing Nigerian colours, they made us all proud. Painfully though, sports development in the country has yet to take the sector to the expected level.

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Despite the fact that sports at the moment remain one of the true unifying force in Nigeria; the sector has continued to witness serious hiccups, especially, in areas of management and policy implementation.

Why can’t our policy experts see that sports touch the hearts of millions of people? Sports promote national unity and image.

Efficient sports system assist in nation building, wealth creation, employment generation, good health and social mobilisation. Until recently, sport is perhaps the only aspect in our lives where ethnicity or religion is not often an issue. Why are they not seeing this?

I’m fully convinced that Sports development would contribute to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy.

But how should we go about it? We won’t get it until conscious efforts are made to focus on school sports which are the basics for early talent discovery and weaning, otherwise the county would continue to lag behind.

Also, sports academies under big sports institutions with clear cut policy on personnel, ‘catch-them-young’ approach and up to date data keeping and athlete monitoring would go a long way to taking the country steps closer to positive expectations.

Even the blind can “see” that like other sectors, the sector has been poorly managed. It will not be out of place to advocate that people with expertise be allowed to manage sports in order to turn potentials into results.

There is need to fully professionalise sports in Nigeria. People with expertise, both athletes and managers, should be allowed to come in and manage sports.

The government in making sports policies should see the sector as a specialised field where only the experts should be engaged.

What is more, sustained competitions at the grassroots level, especially, the primary and secondary schools would continue to throw up quality talents that would sustain the supply chain. There’s also the need for massive infrastructure upgrade.

Kenya and Ethiopian know that their strength lies in athletics and they’ve developed these over the years. Kenya, for instance, has also made inroads into rugby development which was why the country participated in the sport at Rio.

If we do not make deliberate and concerted efforts, sports development in the country would continue to go in circles unless the absence of an active base for sports development in educational institutions and the communities are addressed. We see this playing out almost daily in our most popular sport, football.

Also, inadequate funding, non-functional database for planning and development, absence of deliberate policy on talent identification and development, inadequate corporate support and absence of legislative backing for the establishment of key sports institutions are clogs in wheel of progress as well as frequent changing of sports administrators and lack of both institutional and human capacity for sports development.

The vast resources – human and material – available at the feet of the nation makes it is huge income earner waiting to be astutely tapped.

Sports should be seen purely as business enterprise; so administrators should sit back, undertake real soul searching to see where they derailed.

And for goodness sake, let it be taken away from unnecessary civil service bureaucracy. This is the singular reason the private sector shy away from Nigerian sports.

We lack accountability and the private sector thrives on accountability and positive results always.

When fundamental change occurs, the system cleared of filthiness that hinders progress, sponsors will rush to invest.

But the multiple challenges of infrastructure provision and maintenance, official high handedness in management, policy implementation and most importantly, athletes’ morale, motivation and welfare must be addressed. Unless these are done, we will see winning a single bronze medal as “progress.”

 

 

Management of the Adamawa State University management and its press club are at daggers drawn over the former’s proscription of the latter. In its defence, the management says the club’s activities pose ‘security concerns’ on campus. But, the club members who denied the allegations insist it is one of the tactics the management employs to silence the press on campus. SAM AKINDELE, a 400-Level History and International Studies student of Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, reports.

 

There have been a wave of reactions by students of the Adamawa State University, following the prohibition of the university’s press club.

The university management in a memo a fortnight ago,directed the press club to cease further activities in the next three months, citing ‘security reports’. The development has led to accusations and counter-accusations.

The management said the activities of the campus reporters were posing a threat ‘to the security of other students on campus.’

However, the student-reporters told CAMPUSLIFE that the management was trying to rope them into a cult-related scandal, ostensibly to ‘clampdown’ on them for constantly exposing the ills in the institution.

Defending its action, however, the management said the measure was taken in the students’ best interest.

CAMPUSLIFE obtained a memo signed by the Acting Registrar Ahmed I Ghaji and copied to to the president of the press club.

The memo read: “Management has received with dismay the report on the activities of the press club and the threat it poses to the security of other students on campus.

“In view of the above, management has banned the club from operating on campus for three months”.

Ghaji further directed the press club to immediately put on hold every activity and ensure strict compliance with the directive by all members.

The National Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ) has condemned the action.

A statement posted on NUCJ twitter page, read thus: “NUCJ totally condemns the illegal ban of Press Club in Adamawa State University for three months. Findings reveal that the university management has no good-enough reasons to ban the student journalists for exercising their rights.”

Nevertheless, students who spoke with CAMPUSLIFE, under the condition of anonymity for fear of being victimised, insisted that, as usual, the management was up to one of its draconian measures which it has deployed for years to gag the press.

Students react to ban

A CAMPUSLIFE reporter described the banning as “ a tactical attempt to manouevre or silence the students.”

He accused the university of attempting to duplicate the victimisation of the press in the larger Nigerian society by the authorities.

“I am a student of Adamawa State University who is very much aware of happenings on campus. I can tell you categorically that the ban is a tactical attempt to silence the students,” the source began.

“The management’s action is very wrong and we are airing our views to let the world know that it’s (ban) not in accordance with the societal norm.

“They are trying to repeat what is happening in the outside world, taking a cue from the widespread attack on press freedom and freedom of speech by the citizens of Nigeria.

“This press club has served as a medium which connects the students with the happenings in the institution. We, therefor, appeal and call on all media outlets, National Union of Campus Journalists, independent organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to be active and proactive in the protection of press freedom across tertiary institutions within Nigeria.

‘’We say no to attack on freedom of press. We say no to attacks of press club in Adamawa State University.”

Going down memory lane, another student  said the institution had a long history of revulsion for media activities.

The source regarded the press club as the only avenue for students to advocate improved welfare for members and the general wellbeing of the university.

The source added that should the management uncover their identities, they could be victimised or, worse still, their graduation delayed.

The source said: “I think the management of this institution for long has not hidden its hatred for press activities. Unfortunately, we have a set of union leadership that kowtow to management. It’s only the press club where we channel our grievances.

“Thankfully, they will carry it boldly on the campus magazine, especially things that has to do with the welfare of students. Our campus writers usually give prominence to things like corruption in hostel allocation, the poor state of the student clinic, and many others.

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Owing to this situation, there have been incessant attacks by management on the press club supposedly to weaken its leadership.”

Another CAMPUSLIFE reporter in the university said:“The suspension of the press is not a surprise. This is what we have been seeing by the school management that often puts flimsy excuses in order to justify their actions.“

She continued: “Our fear now is that since the press club can be banned, we no longer have that gut to protest against any policy (by management) that is inimical to our interest.

If a whole organisation can be banned, that simply means we no longer have that voice. We should simply keep quiet as any reaction could jeopardise our future. We hope other students will rise up and support the press so that this suspension can be lifted.”

 

Management reacts

The university’ spokesperson, Mr. Belmond Benson, said members of the press club were the architects of their misfortune.

He said: “You didn’t ask the press club why they were banned. I hope you are aware management will never take a decision just like that. We are having security issues here and you know Mubi environment. You know the history around Mubi?

“There are reports on some of their activities as a club; that is why management is taking this decision in the interest of the students so that we can fish out the bad eggs infiltrating the club.

Nobody is saying the press club is bad but the management is doing this to be able to know those bad elements among them.”

When CAMPUSLIFE urged Benson to be more specific on what the security issues were, he directed the CAMPUSLIFE reporter to enquire from the press club.

Benson said: “Did they (press club) tell you they ever had an event outside the campus of the university? What did they do outside the campus? What transpired there? It was not even the university security outfit that brought the reports, but outsiders. So, find out from them. Confront them with this allegation of holding an event outside the campus of the university.

“This is not just something that started now but it’s unfortunate they are misleading everybody with the report they are giving. The management is doing whatever it can in the interest of the system. We don’t want anything that will pollute the system,” Benson concluded.

 

Allegation unfounded, says press club

Responding to the allegation by the university, one of the members of the press club denied any wrongdoing. The source explained that members only went for hiking outside the university.

“We went for hiking. When we came back, the school’s Chief Security Officer called us that we went for a programme without informing the school authority.

The CSO then accused us of belonging to a cult group, and that we took new members out of campus for initiation, said the student reporter

“We told them they don’t have any evidence. The school never presented any evidence on the allegation. They said we used razor blade and other things there which is not even true because we asked them to provide evidence but they couldn’t.

“After the scenario, the issue died completely. It’s after this issue (banning) they are now trying to bring it up again. We then told them that that allegation has since been resolved for good.

“Their target is just us. There is no activity we are doing that is against the school management. And another thing is that the school never set up a committee to investigate us, there was no panel in place.”

 

Frank Ikpefan, Abuja

 

A total of 25 students of Veritas University in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, will on Saturday graduate with first class degree at the 2019/2020 convocation ceremony of the university.

This is the highest the university would be graduating since it was established by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in 2002.

The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the university, Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, disclosed this during a pre-convocation press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said the university will hold its 8th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment of first degrees and Post-graduate Degrees as well as presentation of prizes in Bwari on Saturday.

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The Vice-chancellor said 286 students will be graduating this academic session with five students from its Post-Graduate programme.

Prof. Ichoku said the university has secured approval from the National Universities Commission to run programmes in computer and electronics engineering.

He said the university admitted 420 students last year and 630 in the 2020/2021 academic session.

The Vice-chancellor also said the university has established a police station to ensure the security of its students.

He added that the university is very cautious of the need to provide security and ensure that the academic environment is secured.

From Toba Adedeji and Yunus Abdulrasheed, KwaraPoly

Students of the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State, have campaigned against ‘sex-for-grades’ at the 20th edition of the ongoing Nigeria Polytechnic Games holding in Ilorin.

At the bi-annual polytechnic games, no fewer than 3,040 athletes from 51 institutions across the country are participating in 14 sporting events.

The students, who held banner and hand flyers, joined the procession of other counterparts.

The campaign against ‘sex-for-grades’ which was sponsored by the host school management started last week within the campus premises both the mini and main campus.

Kwara State Deputy Governor Mr Kayode Alabi, who declared the games open at the Kwara State Polytechnic Sports Complex, urged the participating institutions to abide by the rules of the games.

He added that the games would further foster unity and create mental alertness among participating institutions.

Rector of the host institution, Dr Abdullateef Olatunji, also reacted on the campaign.

He said: “It is one thing to campaign and it is another thing to walk the talk. Walking the talk does not necessarily rely on stakeholders but involves concerted efforts among all. That is how to do it.

“We also want to spread the gesture to other institutions to uplift the quality of education in the country.”

He noted that the management has made up its mind to ensure that all anti-social activities that are pervasive in so many institutions become a thing of the past.

 

By Omolola Afolabi, OAU

Student-journalists and other media practitioners converged on the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife for the International Conference for Campus Journalists (ICCJ).

Organised by the Association of Campus Journalists, the conference with the theme: Press freedom under the Buhari Administration, dissected issues on media freedom and suppression of the right of journalists under the current democratic dispensation.

Senior Legal Adviser, Social and Economic Rights and Accountability Project,(SERAP), Joke Fekumo, cited several cases of infringement on the rights of journalists in Nigeria.

She bemoaned the National Assembly which, last year, came up with fresh guidelines on the accreditation of the coverage and reportage of its proceedings.

She alluded to Press attack tracker, a tech platform that tracks attacks on journalists in Nigeria, expressing shock on the number  of causalities as revealed by the platform last year.

“According to Press Attack Tracker, at least 36 Nigerian journalists were attacked between January and July with 30 of the attacks recorded during the general elections. The death of a journalist who was shot dead in his residence while awaiting the results of the presidential elections was also reported,” Fekumo said while delivering her keynote address.

Fekumo said SERAP is planning to undertake the litigations for journalists whose constitutional rights were being breached by the authorities.

Online Editor, The Nation Sunday Oguntola, had a panel session with the student journalists where he gave perspectives on the trajectory of press freedom across different democratic administrations in the country.

“No government the world over has ever seen the Fourth Estate of the Realm not as major opposition and therefore tried to stifle it.’’

Nonetheless, Oguntola said only a few governments wish to enter into litigation against the media, adding that oftentimes, they lose the case.

He highlighted the importance of national security and the need for people to be wary of fake news. He urged practitioners to put into context objectivity before proceeding to publish any story as this could cause tremendous damage to the individual concerned.

Sharing his experience, Micheal Olatunbosun, a multimedia journalist with Splash FM Ibadan, said he desired to impact his generation by using the media as a platform.” The likes of us are still in the industry because of the plethora of work we can do such as writing, scripting, jingle, production, among others. He urged the young journalists to acquire more relevant skills in order to assert their relevance in the media space. Olatunbosun also admonished budding journalists to be painstaking enough to compile thorough reports and get their facts rights before conducting interviews.

Ibraheen Shitta, a correspondent with TVC, lent his voice to the gender balance and inclusion in the media space.

Shitta said being a female journalist doesn’t make one less a journalist.

Regardless of gender, Shitta believes if a good job is done without leaving loopholes, the journey will be very smooth.

President, ACJ OAU, Olusola Oladare, as well as President, Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin chapter Glory Chika, appreciated guests for the successful event.

Oludare recalled how the body contended with funding during the planning stage. He was upbeat that people would begin to see the prospects in campus journalism and therefore be willing to invest in it.