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  • Govt discovers irregularities in recruitment of LAUTECH staff

    Govt discovers irregularities in recruitment of LAUTECH staff

    Osun State Government on Friday said it has discovered cases of irregularities in the recruitment of some staff of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Osogbo, the state capital.

    In response to the last Wednesday rally of some staff of the hospital, where they claimed that the state government had concluded plans to disengage them, the media aide to the governor, Semiu Okanlawon, in a statement, said the government could not act outside the report of a forensic audit of the staff of the hospital.

    According to the statement, the government through the forensic staff audit was able to discover “various illegal recruitments of staff in excess of over 600.”

    The statement further said: “The audit panels set up in 2015 revealed that about 678 staffers were illegally employed without government approval. Besides, some of these staffers were just administrative officers not urgently needed for the growth of the hospital.

      “The available statistics also showed that some of the administrative officers in question with Bachelors Degrees and Higher National Diploma holders were recruited as security and Ward Assistants on Grade Level 02 only to be promoted to Level 07 within three months of their unapproved appointment. The government also discovered over 500 staff that are Executive and Assistant Executive Officers more than triple the number of available doctors and consultants.

      “What sense would it make for  a hospital with 34 administrative officers; 56 consultants and 154 Resident Doctors to employ 426 Administrative Executive Officers?

  • Govt discovers irregularities in recruitment of LAUTECH staff

    Govt discovers irregularities in recruitment of LAUTECH staff

    The Osun State Government on Friday said it has discovered cases of irregularities in the recruitment of some staff of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Osogbo, the state capital.

    In response to the last Wednesday rally of some staff of the hospital, where they claimed that the state government had concluded plans to disengage them, the media aide to the governor, Semiu Okanlawon, in a statement, said the government could not act outside the report of a forensic audit of the staff of the hospital.

    According to the statement, the government through the forensic staff audit was able to discover “various illegal recruitments of staff in excess of over 600.”

    The statement further said: “The audit panel set up in 2015 revealed that about 678 staffers were illegally employed without government approval. Besides, some of these staffers were just administrative officers not urgently needed for the growth of the hospital.

    “The available statistics also showed that some of the administrative officers in question with Bachelor’s Degrees and Higher National Diploma holders were recruited as security and Ward Assistants on Grade Level 02 only to be promoted to Level 07 within three months of their unapproved appointment. The government also discovered over 500 staff that are Executive and Assistant Executive Officers more than triple the number of available doctors and consultants.

    “What sense would it make for hospital with 34 administrative officers; 56 consultants and 154 Resident Doctors to employ 426 Administrative Executive Officers? Should there be need for recruitment at all, will it not be beneficial for government and the hospital management to recruit officers into strategic area of the state’s healthcare needs?

    “With the current statistics available, the Administrative Executive Officers have more than tripled the numbers of doctors, consultants and nurses, who are the special needs of a functional hospital. To make matters worse, all the recruitment and undue promotions of workers from Grade Level 2 to that of Grade Level 07 within 3 months were done without the approval of the government.”

    The statement also disclosed that some resident doctors, “who were asked to go, are those that have exceeded the mandatory six years required to pass residency examination,” adding that some of these doctors have spent more that 10 years in the hospital.

  • LAUTECH denies cult clash on campuses

    The Management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), has said there was no cult clash on any of its campuses on February 24 as reported in our online edition of Friday, February 26, 2016.

    In a statement by its Head, Public and Alumni Relations Unit, Lekan Fadeyi, the university maintained that there has never been a clash on the premises of the University, since inception, being a non-residential institution.

    ” What happened on Wednesday February 24, 2016 was an altercation between two brothers which resulted in a gun shot that led to the death of one Isah Olatilewa who was not a student of the University as he had no matriculation number.

    ” Even when both the alleged killer and his victim were not our student, Management of the institution in order to forestall the ugly occurrence from spreading to our campus which is close to the Adenike area, that is largely populated by our students swung into action, conducting its own investigation, and placed two of its students who were caught with gun, Oyedepo Adewale Abiodun, with matriculation number 104619 and Olagunju Abiodun Ololade with matriculation number 105045 both of Department of Civil Engineering, on indefinite suspicion with immediate effect .

    ” The clash never took place on our campus, and management suspended two of its students because they were found with gun, and were arrested by men of the Oyo State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

    “There was no protest on Campus as both staff and students went about their normal activities on the day in question.,” Fadeyi stated.

  • Iyayi remembered at LAUTECH

    Iyayi remembered at LAUTECH

    The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) took time out last week to remember the union’s late national president, Prof Festus Iyayi, two years after his death.

    A posthumous lecture in his honour titled: “Lessons of life and times of Festus Iyayi,” was delivered by Dr. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, ASUU Chairman, University of Ilorin branch at the LAUTECH lecture theatre.

    Oloruntoba-Oju described Iyayi as a courageous, fearless and down-to-earth activist whose legacy was worthy of emulation.

    “Prof Iyayi’s life taught humanity to live diligently. His life taught humanity that we must not be ashamed and equally defend any justifiable course we believed in.

    “He was sacked and remained jobless for eight years, tortured, persecuted and hounded in prison, yet he remained defiant in the course he so much adored and believed in till he breathed his last,” he stated.

    Oloruntoba- Oju remarked that Iyayi replicated himself by producing men and women who are exemplary in the Nigerian academic environment.

    “His activism did not go unnoticed as ASUU National Secretariat was named after him as well as a School by Comrade Adams Oshiomole, the Edo State Governor.  He did not give life to mundane things of life. Virtue is his own reward,” he said.

     

  • Aregbesola names LAUTECH Teaching Hospital governing council

    Aregbesola names LAUTECH Teaching Hospital governing council

    Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of the State of Osun, on Tuesday approved the appointment of a new Governing Council for the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.

    The nine-man council is headed by Prof Wole Atoyebi, the immediate past Provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos.

    A statement signed by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, listed other members of the Council as Dr. Kayode Akinlade, Dr. Ademola Akintolu Onifade, Oba (Dr) Folorunso Agboade Makanju Olaniyan, Prof Akeem Lasisi (Acting CMD, LAUTECH); Dr. Temitope Olalekan Oladele (P.S Health), Dr. Surajudeen Ogunyemi, Chairman, NMA), Prof. Samuel Sunday Taiwo, Provost, College of Medicine and Dr. Daniel Adebode Adekanle (Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee).

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  • Protest in LAUTECH over rape, robbery

    Protest in LAUTECH over rape, robbery

    Increase in the spate of robbery and rape in the host community of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has led to a protest by students, last Monday.

    The protesters, who were led by Students’ Union Government (SUG) leaders, shut down of all entrances to the university, denying both staffs and visitors entrance into the campus. The demonstrators, who barricaded the school gate for hours, prevented the Vice–Chancellor (VC), Prof Sulaiman Gbadegesin, and other principal officers from gaining access to the school.

    For 45 minutes, top officials of the school management made effort to persuade the protesters to re-open the school gate, but the students rebuffed. Attempts by the VC to speak to the students were futile.

    Hours after, the students left the school gate to protest on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway.

    Halls of Residence close to the campus have lately been invaded by unknown hoodlums, who robbed and sexually-abused students. Some students, who live far from the campus, were mugged on their way to their hostels.

    In the past weeks, CAMPUSLIFE gathered that more than seven students had fallen victims. The assailants, after forcing their ways into the hostels, robbed students at point gunpoint. The protesters alleged that the management showed no concern on the excuse that the incidents occurred outside the campus.

    The General Secretary of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Hamzat Jamiu, who was part of the protesters, said the situation was unacceptable, noting that the students embarked on the protest when management did not respond to their complaints.

    He said: “The last straw that broke the camel’s back was the insensitivity of the management to the plight of students. Rather than strengthening security around the off-campus hostel, the management increased the acceptance fee of the freshers.”

    The SUG Welfare Director, Ridwan Okedara, said the solution to the problem was for the school to provide hostels on campus.

    The management could not be reached for comment.

  • LAUTECH plans production of glass wares

    LAUTECH plans production of glass wares

    The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, is to begin the production of glass wares in its Department of Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) and supply same to sister institutions and organisations on request.

    Speaking at the sixth induction for 2013/2014 graduating students of SLT by the Nigeria Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT), at the University yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Adeniyi Gbadegesin, said work had begun in the newly completed glassblowing workshop and laboratory complex.

    He added that besides being taught the theory and principle of glass blowing technology, “our students now mend and produce glass wares, and some of the products are available at the laboratory for interested organisations to see.

    The Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Prof Ezekiel Ayodele, said LAUTECH was the first university to present students for induction into NISLT five years ago.

  • Osun invests N1.7b in LAUTECH

    Acting Chief Medical Director, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, has said the Osun State government had invested N1.7 billion in capital projects in the hospital.

    Lasisi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo that the amount was spent on the projects in the hospital in the last four years.

    He, however, said that in spite of the huge investment, most of the projects had remained undone and uncompleted.

    The Acting CMD said one of the projects, a laboratory complex, was without furniture.

    Lasisi, who assumed office, last month, said the hospital was “comatose”.

    He added that forensic examiners were scrutinising the books to check details of finances of the institution ‘’in the last four years and come up with recommendations’’.

    “Aside the investigation on financial transactions, the forensic experts will also probe the sudden upsurge in the number of staff between 2012 and now,” he added.

    According to him, the investigation became necessary in the face of acute shortage of core clinical staff in the hospital.

    “When I assumed office three weeks ago, I met a comatose hospital; resident doctors were on strike and there was total paralysis.

    “More so, documented evidence shows that government has invested N1.7 billion as capital project in this hospital.

    “In spite of that, there are many projects that are undone or not properly done. One of these is the new laboratory complex; the building is there but there is no furniture,” Lasisi said.

  • LAUTECH students protest

    Students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomoso, Oyo State  protested, penultimate Monday, in support of the industrial action embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    The protesters shut the  Ogbomoso North Local Government secretariat and barricaded the Ogbomosho–Ilorin Expressway for hours, calling on Osun and Oyo states’ governors to accede to the demands of their lecturers.

    The protesters also visited Soun of Ogbomoso’s palace to register their complaints, urging the monarch  to appeal to the school’s visitors on their behalf.

    The institution’s ASUU members, on July 10, declared full action, following the non-payment of their salaries for 13 months. They claimed that the school was being run by its Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR). The ASUU action disrupted the semester examination, which was ongoing before the strike.

    But, in a turn of event, the striking lecturers suspended their action last week, prompting the management to recall students back on campus to continue their examination.

    The LAUTECH Campus Ambassador, Adeneye Olayinka, urged students to maintain peace as trhey returned to school.

  • LAUTECH: ASUU threatens strike over unpaid salaries

    LAUTECH: ASUU threatens strike over unpaid salaries

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), LAUTECH chapter has asked Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola to pay the outstanding 13-months salaries owed workers of the Institution without further delay.

    The union also threatened industrial crisis should the workers’ arrears of salaries not paid by the two owner-states.

    The academic union claimed that staff of the institution are finding it difficult to survive while nobody is willing to loan money to them to meet their basic needs.

    The Chairman of ASUU, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Dr Oyebamiji Oyegoke stated this while speaking to newsmen in Ibadan Tuesday saying that the institution workers are facing untold hardship due to what he called abdicating their responsibilities culminating in workers being owed 13 months salaries.

    The union boss said the call became imperative in view of the Bail-out being granted to states by President Mohammadu Buhari which Oyo State is a beneficiary.

    While calling for judicious utilization of the funds to boost the lives of the workers, Dr Oyegoke demanded regular payment of salary from the monthly government subventions and not from the internally generated revenue which is supposed to be used for other welfare and development projects.

    Dr Oyegoke stated that the; “two‎ owner states jointly owe the university workers 13-month salaries forcing the university to keep the system running via financial interventions”

    While lamenting that there are no visible projects on the campus in the last five years, Dr Oyebamiji said the projects visible on the campus are products of ASUU struggles and TETFUND interventions‎.

    Warning of imminent industrial disharmony between the workers and the governments of the two owner-states, ASUU wondered whether Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola ‎ forgot their promise to “spend the necessary monies on LAUTECH to turn it into a model university among its peers”

    According to ASUU, the Oyo and Osun governments have abdicated their responsibilities of providing funding as expected for the university whether capital or recurrent.

    While frowning at the two governors, ASUU called for a sustained response towards capital projects in the university while asking for definite payment of owed salaries as well as the approval of payment of Academic Earned Allowances to the deserving workers.