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  • Empowerment programme for Ondo community

    The lawmaker representing Owo/Ose Federal Constituency of Ondo State in the House of Representatives, Dr Bode Ayorinde has organised an empowerment programme for residents of his constituency.

    Among the beneficiaries were some physically challenged individuals.

    Even though he lost his second term bid to represent his people in the House of Representatives, he considered it necessary to still assist most of them.

    He distributed assorted empowerment facilities worth millions of naira.

    He said he must continue to do good for those people who voted for him to represent them at the National Assembly in 2015.

    Ayorinde said: “There is the need for us to continue the provision of projects that will positively touch the lives of our people. We have renovated some schools, installed transformers in some communities and done some other projects for our people.”

    The proprietor of Achievers University, Owo said he would continue to touch lives of the people in the constituency.

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    He said: ”We will still have to do as much as what God enables us to do. Life must continue.”

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain said the empowerment programme was the first phase, even as he said there are 400 physically challenged persons to benefit from the programme.

    According to him, the distribution of empowerment items to the beneficiaries would be in four batches.

    Some of the items distributed were wheel chairs, grinding and sewing machines and cash of N10, 000 to each of the beneficiaries.

    Many beneficiaries who spoke with Southwest Report hailed Ayorinde for his generosity, stressing that the empowerment scheme would help them enhance their economic well-being.

    They noted that the lawmaker had done a lot for the people of Owo/Ose Federal Constituency. They prayed for God’s blessings upon him.

  • Achievers varsity gets ICAN’s nod

    The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has approved full accreditation for the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Accounting programme of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State.

    In the letter conveying the good news to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tunji Ibiyemi, signed on behalf of the Registrar, Mr. Rotimi Omotoso, by Mr. Fadare Sunday, Head of Department, Students’ Affairs of the Institute, the accreditation is sequel to an accreditation exercise earlier conducted by the institute between June 5 and June 8, 2017.

    This is the second time, back-to-back, the university would receive ICAN’s full accreditation for its Accounting programme, which allows Accounting graduates of the university to enjoy some exemptions in ICAN’s Professional Examinations.

    The Vice-Chancellor, who was elated by the news, described the full accreditation as an endorsement of the university’s B.Sc. Accounting programme by ICAN and a testimony to the “good job Achievers University is doing in mentoring and training future chartered accountants.”

    According to him, the university makes it mandatory for all Accounting students to write ICAN examinations during their stay in the university.

  • Achievers varsity holds 1st lecture

    A Professor of Public Administration, Joseph Imhanlahimi has urged the Federal Government to solve ‘missing links’ in knowledge acquisition in the country.

    This, he noted would guarantee adequate availability of background knowledge among the populace for the use by individuals, private sector and the government for the development of the society.

    He emphasised that there should be basic qualifications to recruit political leaders.

    The don spoke while delivering the first inaugural lecture of the Achievers University, Owo entitled: “Nigerian Public Administration: The Missing Links.”

    Imhanlahimi said academics and researchers cannot force the government to utilise the available indigenous knowledge they provide at great personal cost.

    He observed that the citizens are the losers if the government backslides in the utilisation of the available indigenous knowledge in the country.

    “The mass media, fourth estate of the realm, must on behalf of the citizenry mount appropriate pressure on the government to access the local knowledge available that has been bred from our culture for solutions to the missing links facing the government and the society,” he said.

    He noted that adherence to the rule of law was at low ebb and constituted hindrances to government’s policy process.

    The academic urged the leadership of the judiciary to shore up political and professional will in the application of the rule of law in the country.

    Vice Chancellor of the niversity, Prof Tunji Ibiyemi reiterated the institution’s commitment to groom a league of students that would transform the country.

    He thanked Imhanlahimi for delivering the first inaugural lecture which he described as relevant and thoughtful.

     

  • VC seeks stable agricultural policy

    VC seeks stable agricultural policy

    Vice-Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, Prof Adebayo Odebiyi, has criticised government’s penchant for policy summersaults in the agricultural sector because of their effects on farmers.

    He said this as the guest speaker at the 16th Annual Lecture symposium of the International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows held recently at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State.

    Speaking on a paper titled Integrated Pest Management for Economic and Environmental Sustainability, Odebiyi condemned a situation where “importation of food items is banned and unbanned at the whim” of policy makers.

    He said a well-thought-out policy will engender conducive and environmental stability and called for a strong extension service, which is well-equipped and funded.

    Odebiyi also sought a review of the nation’s marketing policy which should make it easy for farmers to evacuate their farm produce to the market “without losing a sizeable proportion of the harvest” as well as ensure they reap maximum benefits for their hard work without being exploited by “middlemen at the farm gate”.