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  • Police arrest student for stabbing boyfriend to death

    The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old female final year student of Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, Abiodun Olabisi over the murder of his lover, Adegun Lekan.

    The suspect and the deceased, a fresh graduate of the institution awaiting call-up for the NYSC mobilization, were said to be living together as a ‘couple’ at Phonix Area, Stadium Road, Ogbomosho until the unfortunate incident.

    According to the police, the incident followed a quarrel arising from petty jealousy resulted in the victim being stabbed in the chest by the suspect.

    The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude made the disclosure at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan during the parade of suspects arrested by men of the command for various offences in different parts of the state.

    According to the CP, the effort to save Adegun later proved abortive as he dies before he could be attended to at the Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, adding that the kitchen knife used in committing the murderous act has been recovered while the suspects have been arraigned in court.

    Odude said, “A 23-year-old final year female undergraduate, Abiodun Olabisi of the Department of Biochemistry, Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho has been arrested by police detectives attached to Owode-Ogbomosho Division over the murder of a fresh graduate of the same school.

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    “Investigation revealed that both the suspect and the deceased, Adegun Lekan, who had just completed his studies and was awaiting NYSC mobilization were cohabiting in the usual students’ tradition of trial marriage at Phonix Area, Stadium Road, Ogbomosho.

    “The victim, a graduate of Transport Management, who was stabbed in the chest was later rushed to the Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho but died before he could be attended to. The kitchen knife used in committing the murderous act has been recovered.”

    Some of the other suspects paraded by the CP include, a five-man robbery gang who specializes in attacking motorcycles warehouses, a bricklayer who robes student of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) students hostels, an undergraduate social media fraudster who was nabbed for rape and a two-man armed robbery gang who disguises as passengers to rob drivers.

    Others are five-man notorious burglars who operate in Oke-Owdode area of Ogbomosho, a driver who abscond with his master’s car in Ibadan and arrested in Akwa-Ibom, an internet fraudster placing fake online adverts to defraud people, a fraudster who specializes in obtaining money by false pretence, among others.

    Speaking on the effort of the Command to ensure a safe yuletide season and a crisis-free election period, Odude said “Ahead of the yuletide, and the forthcoming general elections scheduled for 2019, the Oyo State Police Command has begun an unprecedented onslaught on criminal elements in the state, depleting their ranks through intelligence-based raid of identified criminal hideouts and intensive vehicle patrol of entry and exit point in the state.

    “The clampdown on criminal elements will be sustained beyond the yuletide and the general election periods. This is to ensure the sustainability of the relative peace currently being enjoyed as well as to create an atmosphere conducive for the electorate, candidates, INEC staff and other participants involved in the electoral process. The recent clampdown has witnessed yet another success recorded in the last few weeks.”

  • LAUTECH appoints new VC, two others

    The Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has announced the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor and two other principal officers.

    A statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Lekan Fadeyi, named Prof. Michael Ologunde, a renowned professor of food science, as the new vice chancellor.

    The council also appointed Dr Kayode Ogunleye as Registrar and Mr Abayomi Okediji as Bursar.

    The newly appointed vice chancellor will take over the running of the institution from the incumbent, Prof. Adeniyi Gbadegesin, whose five-year tenure will end on Feb. 14, 2019.

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    The council said that Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his Osun State counterpart, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, had approved the appointments as recommended by the Prof. Dapo Afolabi-led governing council.

    It hinted that the position of the University Librarian would be filled soon.

    “The council at its 135th special meeting held last week had directed that the vacancy in the position be re-advertised while the process of appointing a new University Librarian be concluded on or before Jan. 25, 2019,” it said.

    The statement explained that the appointments would take effect from Feb. 14, 2019.

  • ‘Non payment of salaries will deepen corruption’

    The Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that non-payment of salaries to workers and university lecturers will deepen corruption and heighten security tensions in the country when students are sent home owing to strikes.

    The Zone lashed out at the failure of the Oyo and Osun States’ government over their failure to pay 10months salary arrears and their defaulting over statutory function to Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso.

    ASUU said that strike currently on in the LAUTECH branch may become full blown if the governments fail to address their demands within the duration of the warning strike.

    The bone of contention is that the owner states refused to fund the University and this has led to 10months unpaid salaries, non-payment of earned academic allowances, pension and gratuity and National Health Insurance Schemes.

    The Ladoke Akintola University had on Thursday proceeded on two weeks warning strike over non-payment of 10months salary arrears by the two owner states and the refusal to fund the university.

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    A release signed by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr Ade Adejumo said allowing the university workers to proceed on another round of strikes would put the progress of the institution on hold and expose the students to crime and criminality.

    Adejumo who maintained that it was the height of irresponsibility and insensitivity on the part of the governors of Osun and Oyo to attend to the financial needs of the institution.”

    The lecturers had to put on hold the first semester examination of the 2017/2018 session put the academic session a shaky and uncertain future.

    The chairman of ASUU LAUTECH Dr. Biodun Olaniran had maintained that while the lecturers had the interest of the students at heart, it is becoming practically impossible to be responsible parents to their families while their children needs are largely unmet.

    ASUU said the union had communicated the governments on the Memorandum of Action before suspending the 10 months strike last year on the need not to renege on the agreement while government continues to beg the question.

    “It is total corruption to deliberately create conditions that will make people vulnerable to crime and criminality. Why will government not pay people and be expecting them to work. Which of the governors is not getting paid and receiving security votes? If workers are coming to work for ten months without pay, a reasonable government should be worried about how the people are coping and surviving rather than think everything is normal. This warning strike is to alert the public of an impending full blown total strike if the government refuses to accede to the request of the ASUU members,” he stated.

  • ASUU to governors: Utilise Paris club fund to pay salary arrears

    ASUU to governors: Utilise Paris club fund to pay salary arrears

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University Chapter has appealed to the Governors of Oyo and Osun States to utilise the newly released tranche of Paris club to off-set salaries of workers and pensioners in the Institution.

    It is also asked Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola to use the opportunity granted by the Paris fund to relief the perennial funding problems that has brought LAUTECH to its knees.

    In a release signed by LAUTECH ASUU Chairman and Secretary, Dr Biodun Olaniran and Dr Toyin Abegunrin respectively asked the two governors to overlook whatever imagined sins must have been committed by some staff members to warrant what they called “horrendous suffering unleashed on the system”

    The Union leaders maintained the two governors should show the milk of human kindness in them to assist the plight of over 30,000 students who are wasting away the good part of their youthful energies at home.

    According to them, the governors should act in the interest of utmost public good by using the opportunity of this windfall to honestly sit down and address the LAUTECH matter

    ASUU said ” Our attention has been drawn to the release of another tranche of Paris Club Refund by the Federal Government to the states. This is done with an express advice to state governments to use the fund for settlement of indebtedness to workers and pensioners. It is in this connection that our Union uses this medium to appeal to the governors of Oyo and Osun states to use the opportunity of this financial relief to solve the perennial funding problems that has brought LAUTECH to its knees.”

    The union further reminded the governors to use public resources which they manage on behalf of the people to service public interests by funding the university properly.

    “The governors are called upon to overlook whatever “imagined sins” must have been committed by some staff members to warrant this horrendous suffering unleashed on the system. They should use the milk of human kindness in them to pity the plight of the over 30,000 students who are wasting away the good part of their youthful energies at home. The University is a public institution ministering to the educational needs of the mass of poor citizen of the states,” the union added.

    The governors are also reminded that they are holding those offices by the grace of the people to whom those positions rightly belong, stating that using resources at the disposal of the state to service public interests like funding the University properly is part of the mandate and pact signed with the people.

  • LAUTECH teaching hospital nurses protest

    Following the non-payment of salaries of members of staff of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho for eight months, the National Association Of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho chapter has embarked on a three day warning protest and industrial action which started on Wednesday 26th Oct , 2016 to register their displeasure over the non-payment of salary of the staff nurses of the Teaching Hospital.

    The protest will lead to an indefinite strike on the third day, Friday 28th if no positive action is taken by the management of the hospital and the Oyo state government as to proffer solution to the nagging issue.

    Speaking with the NANNM Lautech Teaching Hospital Vice Chairman, Com. Oyewunmi Zaccheus Opeyemi, he said the Oyo state government has been owing them eight months’ salary.

    Oyewumi lamented that half salary of January salary was paid shortly after NLC Oyo State called her strike in late August. He further stated that after the payment of half of January’s salary in late August, the (NANNM) executives proceeded to meet with the government to negotiate how to manage the saga, meeting with the commissioner for Finance and Commissioner for health in which they were assured to be calm as the two commissioners will discuss the issue with the Governor.

    However, he said to their surprise they received the half salary of February again in September which prompted them again to meet with the management.

    Oyewumi while speaking said, “The management however promised to proffer a solution so we trusted them again after they paid half of March salary in late September and we as a body told the management that if we should receive half of April salary they will see our other side; but the stroke that broke the camel’s back was again when we received another half salary alert of April.

    “This was what led to the an emergency congress by (NANNM) where decision of the three days protest and by 12pm on the third day we would embark on an indefinite strike.”

  • APC will work to end poverty not manage it like PDP -Tinubu

    APC will work to end poverty not manage it like PDP -Tinubu

    ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSO, ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, DELIVERED AT THE 12TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY, HELD ON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015.
    Protocol
    I am delighted to address this assembly for the first time since my investiture as the 4th chancellor of our university. When we assembled here for that memorable event exactly one year ago, many national and international personalities were among our guests.

    We had the privilege of the eminent presence of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), now the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. At the time, we could only hope and pray that all would be well with our dear country, Nigeria. Today, we are grateful to God because he has heard our cry and has answered our prayer for a better nation. It is, therefore, my privilege to welcome you all to this important occasion of the 12th Convocation Ceremony of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso.

    Sweep of Change

    As I congratulate the Governing Council, Management, Staff and Students of this university for carrying on the work of the university in the face of daunting challenges which the entire nation had to face in the recent past, I would also like to express my joy at seeing the broom of positive change sweeping across the entire nation. I particularly rejoice with the youth of our nation whose hope and prospects for a better future are now bright.  Their welfare and development are sure to receive much needed attention through the enhanced and progressive policies of the new federal government.

    I must, however, state that for us as a nation to experience the change we yearn for, we should all be prepared for a fundamental change in our individual disposition and attitude toward nation building. This change at a personal level will help fuel a national re-orientation that will affect all sectors including governance. We must share the responsibility for change.

    Let us use this opportunity to dedicate ourselves to ensuring that the dividends of democracy reach all and sundry. This is the only way to build a secure future for the teeming population of our youth, a large percentage of who have had to go through harsh experiences of insecurity, unemployment and an uncertain future. A great opportunity is now being presented to us to re-define our identity as a nation and re-order our values and priorities. This responsibility is yours as well as mine.

    The nation can no longer afford to pay lip service to the development of her youths. I strongly believe that this country is blessed with vibrant and talented citizens whose capabilities for nation building are yet to be tapped. We must all stand in concert and unity of purpose to build a secure future for our country by developing our youth.
    Government and youth have mutual duties in this regard. You owe as much to the nation as the nation owes to you. In the past, government has not always honoured its role.  You have now elected a government that will honour its duties.

    One of Government’s primary duties is to provide you with an education in harmony with the demands of our political economy. We must educate you with skills required by the job market that you shall encounter and not for some abstract economy found only in textbooks.

    Then government must spur the economic growth that promises jobs and opportunity to all of you.
    A progressive government must turn its face from the austerity policies of the outgoing administrative that tried to manage poverty, but not end it. Such policies serve only to deepen and prolong the hardship of the average person. Such policies would lock us in a room without hope or safe exit. We dare not go in.

    In response to the downturn in private sector activity, a progressive government must exercise the creative boldness to generate economic growth, productive and equal opportunity. Under the circumstances that now confront us, government must use fiscal and monetary policy to enlarge the economic space by embarking on ambitious infrastructural development, housing and agricultural programs.

    These programs will provide jobs directly. Moreover, the enhancement of our infrastructural base and sharpening of our productive capacity that results from these programs will initiate multiple rounds of job creation. This is how economic growth and employment are sustained over the long term.

    This is what the APC manifesto pledged to you. This is what an APC government will seek to deliver.
    You, the youth, must be willing partners in this mission of radical, structural change.

    Through perseverance, strong determination and consistent search for knowledge, you must seek to excel for the betterment of your society. As you have gone through this institution, you must carry with you the evidence that the institution has gone through you.

    It is necessary for me to call on you the graduates to contribute your fair quota to the development of our country. Remember, the university that produced you has a vision “to be a centre of academic excellence for the advancement of technology in meeting socio-cultural needs of the society”. The knowledge you have acquired in this university becomes meaningful only when applied in a way that impacts positively on the society.

    Conclusion

    As I conclude, I need to place on record my appreciation of the efforts of the progressive governments of the two Owner-States of Oyo and Osun for their commitment to the growth and development of LAUTECH.

    I also acknowledge the good leadership provided by the Governing Council, ably led by Professor Wale Omole, OFR. I sincerely salute the courage of the Vice- Chancellor, Professor Adeniyi S. Gbadegesin and the Management team for bracing up to the challenges the University has had to face in recent times.

    The Senate, all Staff and Students are well recognized and appreciated for their contributions to the peaceful atmosphere in which the University has been carrying out its work.
    Finally, ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to assure you all that LAUTECH will continue to enjoy a top priority status.

    I thank you for listening.

    Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu