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  • Ibadan Poly’s striking workers won’t resume work

    Ibadan Poly’s striking workers won’t resume work

    Despite the purported announcement of resumption by the management of The Polytechnic in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, its striking workers yesterday insisted that the gates of the institution should remain shut until their demands are met by the state government.

    The management, at the weekend, directed all students to resume yesterday after about nine weeks of strike by the academic and non-academic workers’ unions in the state-owned six tertiary institutions.

    By the weekend’s directive, the management urged new students to begin payment of acceptance fee from yesterday while January 15 was announced as the date for the resumption of the 2017/2018 academic session.

    But the Chairman of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the trade unions of the six tertiary institutions Mr Babatunde Adeniyi said the services of its striking workers remained withdrawn.

    Some students, who had stormed the school to resume found members of the striking non-academic workers’ union, who reportedly ensured that the student and the workers did not enter the institution.

    It was learnt that although some students were bitter about the situation, NASU officials were on hand to explain the implications of government’s decision which led to the strike, to the students.

    On why the workers’ union picketed the institution and shut its gates, Adeniyi said the state government must settle their salary arrears before the unions would call off the two-month-old strike.

    He said: “We picketed The Polytechnic, Ibadan, because members of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) had withdrawn their services and we are here to ensure that the gate remains shut.

    “What the two unions –NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) – are saying is that their services still remain withdrawn as long as the strike declared by the six institutions following the reduction of salary to 25 per cent by the Oyo State government still remains.

    “They can’t resume until we suspend our strike. The six unions declared the strike on November 2, 2017, and this remains. Their services stay withdrawn and the strike continues until the government of Oyo State does the needful.”

    Also, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Adeniyi Olowofela, maintained that the state only gives monthly subvention to the tertiary institutions.

    The commissioner said there was no month the institutions did not get “something” from the state government but in varying amounts.

    Olowofela, who spoke yesterday in Ibadan, said the state was not owing tertiary institutions’ workers.

    He said it provided subventions to the institutions as it paid out workers’ salaries.

    The commissioner recalled that the government only supported the institutions since they generated some revenue on their own and spent same without government interference.

    He urged the management of the institutions to be ingenious about generating revenue internally and prioritising how they expend the subventions they get.

    Olowofela added that the state government will soon name the governing councils for the state-owned tertiary institutions to permanently resolve the current impasse.

     

  • Ibadan Poly students protest insurance, ICT fees

    Ibadan Poly students protest insurance, ICT fees

    Students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, yesterday protested against the introduction of insurance and ICT fees in the institution.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the placard-carrying protesting students were seen marching from the south campus to the north campus, singing solidarity songs.

    A NAN correspondent reports that the protest disrupted human and vehicular activities in the institution with classrooms locked.

    The students also barricaded all the entry points into the campus. They demanded for the presence of the Student Union president whom they accused of being behind the introduction of the fees.

    A student of the Geology Department, Temitayo Oyewole, said he was aware of the introduction of the new fees.

    According to him, there was no reason for the Student Union Government (SUG) to agree with the authorities for the students to pay such fees.

    “As a student I am affected. After paying the school fees, I will still have to pay extra, N10, 000 for ICT and insurance fees,” he said.

    Another student, who pleaded for anonymity, said that the protest was necessary because there was no reason for the fees.

    “We are protesting for our right and also fighting our cause. Due to the economic situation some of our parents cannot afford to pay this fee after paying the school fees,”he said.

    NAN reports that none of the student union executive members was available as all efforts to contact them proved abortive.

    The polytechnic’s spokesman, Soladoye Adewole, said the matter was between the students and their union executives.

    “The students were protesting against the programme of the SUG. The SUG introduced a programme and the students said they were not interested.”

    Adewole said the management would look into the matter.

  • Lecture-free week in Ibadan Poly

    Lecture-free week in Ibadan Poly

    The authorities of the Polytechnic Ibadan yesterday declared a week lecture free to mourn the death of six students of the Department of Quantity Surveying who died in an accident on Monday evening.

    The Rector, Prof Olatunde Fawole, made the declaration as a mark of respect for the dead and the 13 injured victims.

    The  18-seater passenger bus conveying the students and some staff from Oyo to Ibadan, where they had gone for a naming ceremony of a member of staff of the department, had a burst tyre at Motunde, near Moniya on the Ibadan-Oyo Road.

    Police spokesman Adekunle Ajisebutu said the bus somersaulted and hit a road divider, adding that the victims died on the spot.

    The injured were taken to the General Hospital, Oyo and St Patrick Private Hospital on the Ibadan-Oyo Road.

    But 12 of them were later referred to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

    The remains have been deposited at the morgue of Adeoyo State Hospital, Yemetu, Ibadan.

    The school’s spokesman, Soladoye Adewole, said the management would take care of the hospital bill.

     

  • Ibadan Poly convocation

    Ibadan Poly convocation

    The Polytechnic Ibadan will hold its 31st graduation at its new 1000- capacity lecture theatre on December 4.

    The theatre was built and furnished by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

    The Deputy Rector, Bayo Oyeleke, said a new health centre would be inaugurated.

    “The 31st graduation will kick-start with a Jumat service on November 27 at the institution’s Central Mosque.

    It will be followed by an interdenominational service on November 29 at The Lord’s Chapel. There will be an exhibition to present the output of our students and staff on December 1.

    “The graduation lecture, by Prof Aderemi Ajekigbe, will hold on December 3 with the topic “Stepping out into the World; Potential Well-being, change in life style and cancer education”

  • ‘Ogunwusi pride of Ibadan Poly’

    ‘Ogunwusi pride of Ibadan Poly’

    The management of The Polytechnic Ibadan has described the selection of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, as a pride to the foremost institution.

    A statement by the Registrar, Hezekiah Ayodele, said the choice of Ogunwusi was based on his pedigree, antecedents and achievements.

    “The management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan congratulates Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, an alumnus of the institution. His appointment is a pride to The Polytechnic, Ibadan.

    “His appointment has further confirmed the capacity of The Polytechnic, Ibadan as a first- class institution, which has trained many distinguished Nigerians, including Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his Ekiti State counterpart, Ayodele Fayose.

    “The management has no doubt that Ogunwusi’s selection was based on his pedigree, antecedents and unparalleled achievements in many spheres of life.”

  • Salary: Ibadan Poly workers begin indefinite strike

    Salary: Ibadan Poly workers begin indefinite strike

    Academic activities collapsed Monday at the Polytechnic Ibadan as members of the Academic staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Polytechnic Ibadan chapter, embarked on an indefinite strike to protect the non-payment of five months’ salary arrears by the state government.

    Before the union announced the strike action, the aggrieved workers went round in procession to sensitise members on the industrial action following state government’s inability to pay outstanding salaries.

    The state secretary of ASUP, comrade Akande Adekunle while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan said members of the union have been working under hunger because government failed to pay workers five months salary arrears.

    Adekunle, who charged the state government to immediately offset the salary arrears without delay, noted that ASUP members have been experiencing irregularity in payment of their salaries since 2014, a situation which he said was not palatable to members as they do not have any other source of income.

    Meanwhile, all efforts to speak with the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution Adewole Soladoye on the matter proved abortive.

    Despite the peaceful protest by ASUP members in the Polytechnic Ibadan, the Student Union Government of the institution has promised to revive the school radio which will create employment opportunities within the institution.

    The newly elected SUG President Joseph Esho, while speaking with journalists during the swearing-in ceremony Monday , stated that the polytechnic radio is one of the innovations that the SUG plans to bring into the institution, one he believes will be a major way to communicate information to everyone.

    Esho who expressed optimism towards the revival of the Poly Radio, promised to actualize it through consultations with major stakeholders in the sector.

  • Calling on Ibadan Poly

    SIR: I wish to use your reputable medium to appeal to the Federal Government to order the authorities at The Polytechnic, Ibadan to release the remuneration to students that underwent the compulsory four months Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) programme from November 2009 to February 2010.

    Before the students proceeded on the programme, they were asked to drop their account numbers and bank sort codes and that immediately after the completion of the programme, the money will be deposited into their account but this has not been fulfilled by the school authorities.

    After much pressure from the students, they were told that the money has not been released from Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and that immediately it is released, their accounts will be credited but unfortunately nothing has been heard from the school authorities.

    From the look of things, it is evident that the authority at The Polytechnic, Ibadan is playing pranks with the students hence reason for the appeal to the Federal Government to come to the rescue of the students so as not to let their sweat be in vain as the payment is long overdue.

     

    • Adedamola Kazeem,

    Ring-Road, Ibadan.

  • Ibadan Poly holds convocation

    Ibadan Poly holds convocation

    Deputy Rector, The Polytechnic Ibadan, Adebisi Adeniran, has said the institution’s 30th convocation will hold at the weekend.

    Adeniran, who chairs the graduation planning committee, said the convocation lecture, “Polytechnic Graduate and Health Care Delivery in Nigeria”, will be delivered by Ganiyu Areola Olatunbosun of the department of Pathology of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.