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  • Two die, six injured in Auchi Poly

    Two die, six injured in Auchi Poly

    Two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, were reportedly killed and six others injured at the weekend when suspected thugs invaded the venue of the Student Union Government election.

    A viral video sighted by The Nation yesterday showed students scampering for safety and arriving to confront the suspected thugs.

    It was gathered that the suspects stabbed the six students before carting and fleeing the scene with some ballot boxes.

    A student, who pleaded anonymity, said the election was going on smoothly until the suspected thugs arrived.

    He said:  “There were two notable candidates, one is known as Verify, while the other, called Voice, is a native of Akpekpe in Auchi.   

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    “Voice was counting on the fact that he is from and thought that he will enjoy the support of the notable people in Auchi to emerge victorious. However, the students stood behind and voted for Verify massively.

    “Midway into the election, the agents of Voice found out that their candidate would not win. They raised an alarm, and the local boys stormed the area, snatched the ballot boxes and dispersed the students by shooting into the air and using tear gas.

    “This is a bad development for our school, and I hope it will not snowball into something more brutal.

    Edo Police spokesman, Moses Yamu, said he has not received any report of such an incident.

    The institution is yet to appoint a spokesman since the death of its last spokesman in 2022.

  • Auchi Poly alumni award scholarship to five students

    Auchi Poly alumni award scholarship to five students

    It was a weekend of nostalgia, celebration, and commitment to nation-building as members of the 1980/89 set of Auchi Polytechnic, under the banner “Auchi Oldies,” gathered in Lagos for their 6th 2025 Annual General Meeting and Reunion.

    The dinner/gala night that ended the three-day event, with the continuing theme, Equipping the Foundry Workshop of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Auchi Polytechnic – Auchi”, held at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, brought together former classmates from across the country and abroad in a celebration of shared memories, renewed friendships, and impactful community action.

    Speaking at the event, Chairman of the Planning Committee, Chris Obode—represented by the Committee Secretary, AGM Planning Committe, ESV. Aiguobasinmwin Hope, welcomed guests with a call to reflect on shared memories and use them to strengthen bonds of trust and mutual support.

    “We have all led normal lives with exuberant moments and sorrowful seasons and we need to be reminded that the roadmap we are presently following is coming to a new arrival point. So as we celebrate our Reunion tonight, it is only important that we reflect on the moments that defined our time at our alma mater as we continue to foster the bonds of mutual trust and friendship amongst us,” he said.

    President of the association, Peter Nwadei, highlighted key achievements made since the last gathering.

    He recalled the significant strides made since their last reunion, particularly the fundraising initiative that generated over N220million to equip the Mechanical Engineering Foundry Workshop at Auchi Polytechnic. The initiative continues from the 2024 legacy project aimed at boosting technical education at their alma mater.

    He added that as part of their commitment to academic excellence, the Oldies presented cash awards to five high-performing students of Auchi Polytechnic. The beneficiaries are: Comfort Ididi, Friday Marvellous, Promise Uareme, Jesvita Ngboaku, Prince Oghenekevwe

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    The awards were presented in the presence of the Deputy Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Dr. Edith Oyakhilome.

    Nwadei also noted the association’s rising impact, which includes financial support for members with medical needs, welfare visits to elderly homes, and strengthening of internal governance with renewed focus on transparency and accountability.

    Former Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Ebenezer Onyeagwu, pledged N500,000 to the best accounting student and also offered to cover the ICAN registration fees for any student who qualifies as a chartered accountant while still in school.

    Another alumnus, Dr. Nelson, pledged N200,000 annually for the next 10 years to the best graduating student in Quantity Surveying. The reunion was marked by laughter, shared memories, and reflections on campus life, reinforcing the camaraderie among members of the Auchi Oldies.

  • Old students undertake projects in Auchi Poly

    Old students undertake projects in Auchi Poly

    •Institution gets 10 computers

    As a way of giving back to their alma mater,  a group of old students of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, the Auchi Oldies 80-89, has undertaken some projects in the polytechnic.

    President, Auchi Oldies 80-89, Mr. Peter Nwadei, disclosed that one of such projects is a 300-seater capacity amphitheatre in the polytechnic, which was single-handedly completed by the outgoing Group Managing Director Zenith Bank, Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu.

    The facility, he said, is due for inauguration soon.

    Read Also: Auchi Poly grants amnesty to four repentant cultists

    Nwadei, who spoke at the 4th Reunion andAnnual General Meeting of the group in Lagos at the weekend, stated that the group will also begin the building of a foundry workshop in the institution by June, which will be fully-equipped.

    He added that the group recently visited an orphanage in Lagos and donated food items and toiletries.

    “We have given cash awards to students that excelled from different departments, and we plan to continue with this noble course this year as we have some names shortlisted already. Also, we just supplied some desktop computers to the school IT Laboratory.

    He recalled that the main purpose of the coming together is to recreate the love and friendship from Golan Heights and to give back to their Alma Mater and the needy in the society.

    The old students also donated 10 sets of computers to the polytechnic.

  • Auchi Poly grants amnesty to four repentant cultists

    Auchi Poly grants amnesty to four repentant cultists

    The Auchi Polytechnic in Edo has granted amnesty to four repentant cultists.

    Its rector, Dr. Salisu Umar, made this known yesterday, while addressing the repentant cult members.

    Umar urged the students of the institution to renounce their membership in cults.

    The former cultists renounced their membership of secret cult groups at a renunciation programme organised by the management of the polytechnic in Auchi, Edo.

    ”Renouncing cultism means abandoning reckless lifestyle and evil ways, adding that no good thing comes from the devil.

     “Auchi Polytechnic in a bid to establish zero tolerance for cultism has organised this renunciation programme.

    “This renunciation programme is a kind of amnesty to enable staff and students who are cultists to renounce membership of such cults.”

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    “After the renunciation programme, any staff or students who  gets involved in any cult related activities, will face appropriate penalties and punishment,’’ the rector said.

    The fight against cultism, he said, is a collective one.

     “Churches and mosques are not left out in the fight against cultism, they should also establish strong youth departments and programmes where youths can be mentored regularly, “he said.

    He urged other students who didn’t want to publicly renounce their memberships to do.

    Mr Daniel Osita, who gave his testimony as a renounced cultist, commended the students for renouncing cultism.

    ”By this decision you have opened positive doors to your futures,” he said.

    He advised the students to be mindful of the decisions they make in life, pointing out that choices made by humans in life either makes or mar their future.

  • Auchi Poly sanctions 27 staff for misconduct

    Management of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, said it has sanctioned 27 staff for gross misconduct.

    It said the affected staff engaged in sex for marks, money for marks and other unethical practices.

    Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Momodu Sanusi Jimah, who stated this at the 25th convocation ceremony of the institution said the sanctioned staff thought such unethical vices were now a way of life.

    Dr. Jimah said 11 of the affected staff were dismissed, appointment of six were terminated while 10 others were downgraded.

    Jimah said an additional 250 staff were recruited to strengthen staffing capacity of the institution to deliver effectively and efficiently on its academic and support services.

    He stated that the institution has enhanced its staff development policy by sponsoring staff to acqurie higher degree through the TETFUND interventions.

    Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Olarewaju Oloyo, who was represented by Prince Felix Oba Okojie, said unethical conduct of some staff would no longer be tolerated.

    Oloyo urged the Federal Government to consider allocation of special grant to the institution to enable it replace all instructional materials and equipment.

    A total of 28,325 graduands of the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 were presented with the award of Post Higher Graduate Diploma, Higher National Diploma and National Diploma.

  • Auchi Poly lecturer commits suicide

    A lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Mr Patrick Okojie, has committed suicide three days to his 47th birthday.

    The decaying body of Okojie was found at his plot of land at Igbira Camp, along Igarra/Auchi Road, four days after he was said to have been missing.

    Okojie, who left behind a wife and three children, was said to have been due for promotion to chief instructor by this month ending before he died.

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    Family sources said he did not leave any suicide note.

    It was, however, gathered that he had made two previous attempts at committing suicide.

     

  • Auchi poly lecturer commits suicide

    A lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Mr. Patrick Okojie, has committed suicide three days to his 47th birthday.

    The decaying corpse of Okojie was found at his plot of land at Igbira Camp, along Igarra/Auchi road, four days after he was said to have been missing.

    Okojie, who left behind a wife and three children, was said to have been due for promotion to Chief Instructor by month’s ending before he died.

    Family sources said he did not leave any suicide note.

    It was however gathered that he had made two previous attempts at committing suicicde.

    The source said he left home on March 4th and was found on the 8th while the rope he used to hang himself was found on his neck.

    He was said to have driven out of the house as if he was going to the office.

    Spokesman for the institution, Musa Oshiobugie, did not answers call on his mobile but a top management staff described the incident as a family affair.

    Edo Police spokesman, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.

  • Auchi Poly hosts conference on gender equality

    Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, will hold an international conference at the school’s main auditorium from January 21 to 24, 2019.

    With the theme: Implementing and sustaining gender mainstreaming in a globalised world,  it is being coordinated by the institution’s Centre for Gender Studies.

    Participants at the conference will address sub-themes, such as strategies for ending poverty in all forms, strategies for making our cities and human settlements safe, inclusive and sustainable, strategies for effective implementation of international action programme on climate change, strategies for achieving gender equality and strategies for economic empowerment of women and girls, among others.

    The four-day conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. Kwame Nyamekhe, a lead paper by Prof. Agatha Eguavoen of Faculty of Social Sciences, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State and technical session and gala night.

    The Rector Auchi Polytechnic, Dr. M. S Jimah, is chief host.

     

  • Auchi Poly alumni donate 200-seater studio

    A 200-seater engineering drawing studio has been donated to the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi by the Auchi Polytechnic Alumni Association (APAA).

    The body’s National President, Mr Victor Okhaimo, said the drawing studio has 14 offices and other state-of-the-art facilities

    Okhaimo said the donation of the studio was part of the association’s commitment to providing more learning spaces in the engineering department of the institution.

    He said the association would continue to promote academic excellence and attract more infrastructure to the institution.

    Okhaimo said the project was the beginning of greater projects by the association.

    “The management can be rest assured that the alumni would be very willing to continue to be development partners and support all the growth plans of the school,” he said.

    Otaru of Auchi, Alhaji Hairu Momoh, who performed the inauguration, described the donation as enviable wonderful and commendable.

    “The spirits of togetherness and promptness in responding to some of the challenges in the school have indeed shows the alumni concern for the development of the institution.

    “This will encourage others to give back to the institution that had nurtured them,” the monarch said.

    The Rector, Dr. Sanusi Jimah, urged the alumni to key into the  one-point agenda of no corruption in the institution.

    “For the first time in the history of the polytechnic, the alumni has constructed a storey building studio that will take 200 students at a time,” he said.

  • Two die in Auchi Poly cult clash

    Two students of the Federal Polytechnic at Auchi in Edo State were killed at the weekend in a cult clash at Auchi in Estako West Local Government Area.

    The clash reportedly occurred between members of the Black Axe and Vikings confraternities after the students completed their examination for this year’s academic session.

    It was learnt that quarrel started at a graduation party organised by an unidentified student on Thursday night.

    One of the victims was reportedly killed in front of Hartland Company, located on the Benin-Auchi-Okene Expressway, while the other died at the Sabo Quarters, an off-campus community of the polytechnic.

    Police Commissioner Haliru Gwandu, who confirmed the deaths, said two students suspected to have carried out the killings have been arrested.

    Gwandu said some cult members who were about to initiate new members last Saturday were arrested.

    He said: “Two persons died. The first Black Axe person killed a member of Vikings and a member of Vikings retaliated. We have apprehended the kingpins of the two cult groups and they are helping our investigations. The killings occurred outside the campus. We went to the off-campus and met them.”

    Gwandu added: “The Anti-Cult Unit (of the police command) mopped up some cult groups and recovered some pump action guns. Those cult groups were about to go on an initiation but luck ran out of them and they were apprehended.

    “On Auchi Polytechnic, it all started on November 26, when a member of the Black Axe cult group killed an opponent in Vikings. Like I always say at any conference, the students are living in the academic environment. They find that the security unit of the polytechnic or any institution has to raise the alarm to invite the police. It is only when we are invited that we enter the campus.

    “The standard practice is to make sure that sanity is restored or brought everywhere. So, when our men were invited, they took photographs of the scene and protected the people. The next thing was to gather intelligence about who masterminded the killings. Good enough, we were able to apprehend the person who masterminded the killings.

    “An axe was also recovered from him. It’s not only one person but on both sides. We were able to apprehend the kingpins of that rival cult-related madness. So, the matter is under investigation.

    “I would not want to mention names because it can halt the process of investigation. But as it is now, we have the kingpins of the Black Axe cult group and the Vikings cult group. They are helping the investigation. I am sure that by the middle of this week, we will be able to make more arrests and put sanity in the situation.”