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  • AAUA students get ICT scholarship

    Ten students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), have been awarded scholarship to embark on various Information and Communication Technology (ICT) trainings by a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO), BridgeUp Nigeria Limited.

    The formal presentation of the scholarships took place at the Nelson Mandela Hall of the university recently.

    Presenting the award, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Olugbenga Ige, lauded BridgeUp Nigeria Limited, for the gesture, describing it as a step in the right direction that would further strengthen the symbiotic relationship between AAUA and the benefactor.

    Thanking the University Advancement Office (UAO), for facilitating the scholarship, Ige urged the beneficiaries, who were winners of various categories of the institution’s online competitions, to maximise the opportunities offered by BridgeUp Nigeria Limited to hone their skills.

    In his welcome address, the facilitator and Director of UAO, Prof. Francis Oyebade, said UAO has, over the years, encouraged students and student organisations to contribute their quota to uplift the university through different programmes, including, My AAUA Online Challenge, Internship, and Leave a Legacy.

    He said: “For a relatively young institution like ours, it is important to harness the roles that our students and young alumni can play in the institution’s advancement while at the same time instilling the passion to give back to them before graduation.”

    The director noted that the university has developed an annual IT Scholarship Scheme with NIIT, a partner of BridgeUp Nigeria Limited and expressed hope that future awardees would include winners of the forthcoming #MyAAUA Challenge, and other deserving students from various departments.

    Responding, the Chief Executive Officer, BridgeUp Nigeria Limited, Mr. Mayowa Akinbinu, said the firm was desirous of impacting the society, especially youths, through IT programmes.

    He added that they will continue to collaborate with the university in order to achieve its vision and mission.

    Responding on behalf of other beneficiaries, Victor Emaye, thanked the benefactor, saying the opportunities offered by the scholarship would be maximally utilised.

  • AAUA alumni honour outstanding members

    Opeyemi Longe, a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) who emerged the overall best at the 2014 National Bar examination has been honoured by the institution’s alumni association.

    Longe was honoured at the  yearly convention of the association which held at the Nelson Mandela hall of the institution.

    Also honoured with Longe were Faith Olayinka Falade, the first female student of the university to make a First Class at the Nigerian Law School and David Adebisi Alade who bagged a PhD scholarship at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, immediately after the completion of his undergraduate degree.

    President of the association, Patrick Oluyide, who congratulated the recipients, said the initiative was to celebrate members who had distinguished themselves and brought fame to the university.

    Oluyide, however, singled out Longe in his commendation for making AAUA Law programme a force to reckon with among law faculties in the Nigeria.

    Speaking on behalf of the awardees, Opeyemi lauded the association for the honour done them.

    He said the awardees would keep the flag flying in their future undertakings.

    It would be recalled that Opeyemi exceeded expectation by his unmatched performance at the Bar Final Examinations results released in October 2014 as the overall best student nationally and a recipient of eight awards at the Call to Bar Ceremony held on November 26, 2014.

    He was awarded the highest number of academic prizes ever recorded by a single individual in the 52-year history of the law school.

    Opeyemi won the Dr Taslim Elias Prize for the Best Overall Performance; Boinime Jackson Lott Foundation Award to the Best Overall Student; Council of Legal Education Star Prize; Director General’s Prize for First Class Students; Hon. Justice J. O. Shofolahan Prize for the best student in Corporate Law Practice; Justice Atanda Fatai-Williams Prize for the best student of the Year; Sir Adetokunbo Ademola Prize for the Best Student of the Year; and Yusuf Ali, SAN Prize for the Best

    He was also the first student to graduate with a First Class degree from the AAUA’a Faculty of Law.

    At the fifth convocation of AAUA, he won all the prizes for the 2011/2012 Session. They included: the Ondo State Government Prize for the Best Graduating Student, Faculty of Law; Prof. Abiola Ojo Prize for the Best Graduating Student in Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law; Dr. Wale Babalakin Prize for the Best Graduating Student with First Class; Faculty of Law Prize for the Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Law; and Oba Adebori Adeleye.

  • Industrial action looms in AAUA

    Another industrial action may be looming at the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State over an allegation that management imposes Deans and Head of Departments (HODs) on lecturers.

    The institution had resumed on Monday following a three-month strike which was eventually suspended by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over non-payment of salaries.

    In view of the latest development however, ASUU said it would not mind embarking on another strike if the management fails to reverse its decision.

    It alleged that Vice-Chancellor Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun handpicked those he believes would be loyal to him as Deans and HODS rather than conducting elections for the position.

    A statement signed by ASUU chairman, Dr Sola Fayose reads: “The local ASUU in AAUA, at the point it was suspending the strike, called the attention of the vice chancellor to this infraction through a resolution of congress which also demanded that the process be reversed within seven working days, starting from the day the resolution was taken.

    “However, the total disregard of this resolution by the vice chancellor by reason of summoning the Senate of the university, which would have in attendance these irregularly appointed Deans and HODs, shows his preparedness to take on the union, notwithstanding the good reasons that are needed to protect the university.

    “Apparently, the revulsion Prof. Ajibefun has for rules and regulations is deep-seated  as he has also continued to employ academic staff that are over 70 years in total disregard to the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement and ondo State government white paper and official gazette.

    “We call on well meaning Nigerians, particularly Ondo State indigenes, to prevail on the vice chancellor to allow good reasons to subsist as members of the union are ready to resume effective teaching immediately, not minding that three months of their salary and eight months of deductions are still outstanding.

    “It should be made abundantly clear that AAUA should not be run based on the whims and caprices of an individual or an ambitious clique, but on established rules and regulations.

    The union is committed to performing its function and responsibility of a better AAUA, and will not succumb to any blackmail or pressure in the discharge of this onerous assignment.

    All efforts to speak with the institution Public Relations Officer (PRO) proved abortive as he did not pick his call as at the time of filing this report.

  • ASUU strike’ll end soon, says AAUA VC

    The Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, (AAUA) Prof Igbekele Ajibefun, has assured that the on-going industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the institution will soon end.

    Ajibefun gave the assurance while speaking with reporters in his office at the weekend.

    The VC said, “Our academic calendar has been very smooth until recently when the university began to face some challenges in terms of payment of salaries, which is not unconnected with the economic recession in the country.

    “Very soon, all the issues will be resolved. We are in a progressive talk with the leadership of ASUU. Efforts are in the top gear to ensure that ASUU members go back to class. Very soon, our students will be asked to return to campus.”

    Reacting to speculations that the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) at AAUA has been proscribed, following a protest by some members of the association, which led to the disengagement of its executives in 2012, Ajibefun said the union was never banned in the university.

    “There is no record whatsoever that says SSANU has been banned. The Management is not against its resuscitation. Everybody has the right to freedom of association and such a right has not been taken away from SSANU,” he said.

  • Officers for AAUA alumni Ibadan branch

    The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Alumni Association has opened its Ibadan, Oyo State branch. The ceremony, attended by 40 members was held at Tantalizers Eatery in the Students’ Union Building of the University of Ibadan (UI).

    The National President, Mr Patrick Oluyide, said the branch’s establishment was in line with the association’s constitution, which allows creation of chapters in towns and cities across the globe without compromising the conditions for  formation, including a minimum of 20 members.

    Presenting the charter of the association to the branch, Oluyide urged the executive members to steer the group’s affairs in line with the constitution.

    Oluyide said he was encouraged by the zeal of members and the manner they coordinated themselves. He advised them not to rest on their oars in raising the association’s membership in Ibadan.

    He said: “I am impressed by the conduct of the executive members. The quality of their discussion prior to the establishment of the branch was heartwarming. They have started on a very good note. I urge them to continue with this encouraging path.”

    The chairman of the branch, Mr Oyekunle Adetoba, appreciated all members for their cooperation, promising to justify the confidence reposed in him to lead the association.

    He said: “We want to assure you that we shall leave no stone unturned in ensuring that this branch continues to grow in strength and membership.”

    Other executive members inaugurated included Vice Chairman, Yetunde Ijitola,  Secretary, Omobayode Okelola, Treasurer, Mercy Dada, Financial Secretary, Seun Ajagun, and Kehinde Adebayo, Events and Publicity Officer.

  • AAUA students to management: N25,000 reparation fee too high

    The Adekunle Ajasin University in Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, has ordered students to pay N25,000 each as “reparation fee” for the destruction of properties during their protest last month. The school management has linked payment of the fee to the school’s reopening.

    The university was shut after the  protest that trailed the death of Ojo Afolabi Daniel, a 200-Level Economics Education student, after being knocked down by a commercial motorcyclist.

    In a text message to students last Thursday, management said the decision was reached after a Senate meeting, where the report of the committee that investigated the  protest was discussed. The committee, CAMPUSLIFE gathered, recommended the payment for the destroyed properties.

    The text message by the Registrar reads: “All students are to proceed to any of the branches of the following banks to make payment for reparation fees of N25,000 only. Students are to log on to the school portal and click on ‘reparation fee’ with their registration/matriculation number and the confirmation order number obtained from the bank…”

    Reacting, the students are begging management to temper justice with mercy. They urged management to reduce the fee, which they described as “too high”.

    Wale Fayemiro, a 400-Level student, begged management to reduce the fee, because of what he called the “unfavourable” economic situation.

    He said: “The reparation fee came to most of us as a surprise. It should not have been high. We plead with the management to review the fee in line with the current economy reality in the country.”

    Another student, Damilola George, said the reparation fee was too high. He urged management to reduce it to what students could afford.

    Some students expressed their views on social media. A student wrote: “I think this is the right and most important time we need the intervention of the SUG. They must rise up and kick against this huge payment.”

    Another student wrote: “This is very unfair. Government has not paid our parents’ salaries for about five months; the economy of the state is nothing to write home about, yet the management is not considering this before asking us to pay N25,0000.”

    Members of Students’ Union Government (SUG) urged students to be law-abiding and calm, saying the union was doing everything to engage the management on the need to reduce the reparation fee.

    In a statement by the union president, Adegbola Odunyemi, and the Speaker, Olakunle Balogun, the union said: “While we are not against the decision of the management, we are constrained to make plea to the management to temper justice with mercy and consider the downward review of the fee.”

  • Residents lament closure of Ondo Varsity.

    Residents lament closure of Ondo Varsity.

    There was heavy presence of Mobile Police men in the University community of Akungba-Akoko in Ondo state yesterday to ensure the strict compliance with the order by the institution’s management for the students to vacate the Campus.

    The University Community has been deserted following the closure of the institution.

    AAUA was shut last Saturday by its management due to the protest that greeted the death of a student by Okada motorcycle commercial operator.

    Already ,the absence of students who formed about 80 per cent of the entire population in the town had started affecting the socio-economic lifeline of its residents.

    A market woman, Mrs Ajaratu Ajimo said the closure was affecting her means of survival.

    Another business centre owner, Sule Ogundele who had just paid his annual rent prayed for quick resolution of the impasse.

    It was noticed that many Okada Operators in Akungba-Akoko had relocated to neighbouring towns like Ikare,Supare,Arigidi-Akoko,Oke-Agbe and others to make ends meet.

    Sources said some students arrested during the protest are still in police custody for their unruly act.

     

  • AAUA students honour AG

    The Students’ Judicial Council of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State has honoured the Ekiti State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Owoseni Ajayi with “Judicial Icon of the Year award”.

    It was in recognition of Ajayi’s contribution to the legal profession as a lawyer, leader of the Bar and chief law officer of the Fountain of Knowledge.

    The award was bestowed on the former Chairman of the Ado Ekiti Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and a former National Executive Committee (NEC) member of the body to commemorate the Judiciary Day of Student Union Government (SUG) Judicial Council.

    Addressing the students at presentation, Ajayi described unionism as a training ground for youths capable of empowering them for future leadership challenges.

    He stressed the need for youths to shun all forms of corruption towards achieving a better society.

    Ajayi emphasised that the rule of law, being a legal principle that law should govern a nation as opposed to being governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, must be adhered to.

    He decried the use of the judiciary to embarrass political opponents under the guise of fighting corruption and cautioned against using the judicial process to witch-hunt.

    According to him, justice must not only be done, it must be seen to have been done, adding that any accused person must be duly notified and given opportunity to defend himself.

     

  • AAUA pays 193 Work/Study students stipends

    No fewer than 193 students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Nigeria, who participated in the institution’s 2014/2015 Student Work-Study Scheme (SWSS), received their stipends last week.

    The SWSS, which took off in July 2010, allows willing students to work for two hours daily and earn money to support themselves financially.

    Acting Director of the Scheme, Dr Iyabo Omoniyi, said about 200 participants of the first batch of the 2014/2015 academic session were paid earlier.

    She explained that paucity of funds caused the delay in paying the second batch of 193.

    “We are paying the second batch of the University Student Work-Study Scheme beneficiaries. They are being paid according to the number of hours spent on the job. They are paid N250 per hour and they are allowed to work for two hours daily,” she said.

    Students participating in the scheme for the second semester of the 2014/2015 session resumed penultimate week in their respective places of assignment.

    Dr. Omoniyi advised them to be hard working and show appreciation to the management for the gesture.

    The students were happy to be paid and said the money would be handy.

    Folashade Fadimilehin a 300-Level student of English Education, said: “The money I received here today will go a long way in paying some of my domestic bills. I am sure some of us will use the money for school fees. It is a very good programme. I want to thank the Ondo State government and the university management for the programme.”

    Constance Chidinma, a 300-Level student of Political Science, said: “This programme is really helping me in my academic pursuit, especially now that I just lost my dad. I want to use this medium to appreciate the University Management for the wonderful programme.”

     

  • Mass Comm. applicant emerges best in AAUA test

    A prospective student of Mass Communication, Fuad Oriloye, has emerged overall best candidate among 17,717 applicants that sat for the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA in Ondo State.

    Fuad scored 259 in UTME and had 86 per cent in the entrance exam of the university.

    Mercy Akinmusire, a Direct Entry candidate, who applied to study English Education, came second, scoring 82 per cent.

    Other candidates who had high scores include Emmanuel Adeniji, a Direct Entry candidate of Mass Communication, Busayo Leramo, a prospective History and International Studies student, and John Bamidele, who also put in for History and International Studies. They all had 80 per cent.

    Reacting to the development, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academic, Prof Oluyemisi Adebowale, expressed delight at the development, saying: “It is a toast and a reflection of the quality of the examinations conducted by the university and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).”

    She congratulated the outstanding candidates, saying the university would not only admit them but was also keen to see them joining list of its best students.

    About 5,513 of the candidates, who sat for the test, scored 45 per cent and above.