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  • Don’t scrap TETFUND, OOU VC begs FG

    Don’t scrap TETFUND, OOU VC begs FG

    The Vice Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Professor Ayodele Agboola, has appealed to the federal government not to abolish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund)

    Speaking in a chat with some newsmen in Ago Iwoye, Agboola who is still in an excited mood following the recent successful 34th Convocation ceremony of OOU, said that instead of scrapping TETFUND for Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) ‘’both can be operating pari-pasu because they perform different functions.”

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    He said that TETFUND’s role is to assist the government-owned higher institutions at the federal and state levels in the area of infrastructure and capacity building of the staff while NELFUND is to assist students to secure loans without interest: so they have different functions and merging or scraping one for the other may create confusion.”

    Continuing, Agboola said that most of the modern buildings in the Nigerian Universities were built through the assistance of TETFUND “Even most of the buildings in OOU were built through the assistance of TETFUND except one or two donated by someone individuals“.

    On whether TETFund funding should be extended to private universities, the university Don said, “TETFUND is for government-owned universities since private universities are profit-making institutions, there is no way you will use the taxpayers’ money for a profit-making venture like a private university”.

  • Abiodun awards N2.5m to OOU best graduating student, N.5m to others

    Abiodun awards N2.5m to OOU best graduating student, N.5m to others

    Governor Dapo Abiodun, has awarded the overall best graduating student of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago – Iwoye,    Miss Aishat Anuoluwapo Dauda,   a cash prize of N 2.5 million naira.

     The 19 – year – old recipient graduated from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, hitting 4.87 Cumulative Grade Point Aggregate (CGPA) to emerge the overall best graduating student.

     Abiodun also gifted the 114 first-class graduating students the sum of N500,000 each, including the overall best graduating student, urging them to sustain the values, principles and discipline that shaped their outstanding academic feats.

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    “Graduands, as you step into the world, carry with you the values, and principles that have shaped you. Strive to be innovators, problem solvers, and leaders in your respective fields,” Abiodun charged.

    The governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, announced the cash awards at the  34th convocation of the university held on Friday at Ago-Iwoye.

    The conferment of honorary degree and postgraduate degree at the convocation was commemorated with a lecture, titled: “TETFUND and Educational Development in Nigeria: The History, the Treasures, and the Future,” which was delivered by the TETfund Executive Secretary, Mr. Sunday Echono.

  • OOU has made great strides in 42 years, says VC

    OOU has made great strides in 42 years, says VC

    The Vice Chancellor (VC) of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, has said the 42-year-old institution has contributed to manpower development in every sector of the country’s economy since its establishment.

    He said the institution had grown from five faculties to 14 and from fewer than 300 students to 30,000.

    In a chat with reporters over the weekend about OOU’s achievements, especially under his stewardship in the last two years,  Agboola said the institution had experienced infrastructural uplift with the addition of courses, while all the programmes had been fully digitalised to encourage online learning.

    He added that examinations were conducted and results were released in time, while salaries and pensions were being paid as and when due.

    “When I took over, the first thing I did was to ensure from inception to graduation, everything was alright. Initially, one major problem we had was that we didn’t know the number of students we had, and this affected our planning.

    “What we did was that right from the time we were doing post-UME, after getting all the data from JAMB, those we admitted were put on our portal. We linked the portal to the Results Processing Management System so that students have their profiles on the portal. With this, the students can see how much they are to pay. When they pay, we link the students with our management system.

    “All HODs, through the efforts of the DVC Accounts, must have looked at the curriculum they will use for that year, and the students just go ahead and register for the courses. From there, when examinations are about to take place, we already know the number of students to assign to examination halls, which makes it easy to conduct examinations.

    “In the past, we used five weeks to conduct exams, but now, within two weeks, we are through, and the students see their results immediately. It doesn’t take time to consider the results at the Senate because the students have all seen their results,” he said.

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    Agboola noted that courses such as Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing, Forensic Science, Taxation, Criminology, Library Science, Geophysics, Building Technology, Quantity Surveying, and Estate Management had been added to expand the scope of the school.

    “We are working on introducing Food Science, Data Science, Information and Communication Technology, Software Engineering, and Cyber Security,” he added.

    The VC hinted that OOU is collaborating with the National Incubation and Innovation Centre, Abuja, for the entrepreneurship training of its students.

    Teams from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, and from the Federal Ministry of Education were in the institution to finalise arrangements for affiliation for the take-off of the leadership training in the school through the Awujale Institute of Governance.

  • OOU graduate emerges face of CandyCity USA

    Saedat Ilesanmi, a graduate of microbiology from Olabisi Onabanjo University has been announced as the winner of Face of CandyCity USA.

    The elated queen expresses Joy as she was crowned stating that it feels amazing to be announced the winner having tried a couple of pageant but emerging runner up.

    “i feel amazing being named Face of Candycity USA out of thousands of other participants” she said.

    “I have participated in several pageants and been a runner-up lots of other times.

    Once you’ve been runner-up a few times you start thinking, “OK it’s time for me to win!” And yet it can still take a long time to happen, because each pageant is a learning experience.

    “There were so many contestants with vast experience and that made me totally relaxed and my attitude was more of let’s just have fun.

    “I loved every moment of it and I’d do it again if I had the chance”

    The beauty queen however spoke on her pet project adding that she would focus on empowering women by promoting the importance of education.

    “I’m very passionate about uplifting others so I will create platforms that will focus on Integrating and empowering women by promoting the importance of education.

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    “My platform will empower the millenial females with a progressive drive but have been deprived due to socio-economic constraints.

    “My cause is to reintegrate these girls ( lost girls,dropouts, less fortunate females)into the society by providing them with useful, practical and professional trainings in terms of business and self development.

    “In futherance to my quest in pushing these sisters towards their goals, I would be working together with a selected group of SME’s and business schools for capacity building. I also have plans to work HIH with corporate schools of communications for etiquette trainings, self discipline and personal development.

    “It will be a centre for restoring value for female dignity and It will cater to rehabilitating trulls ,drug addicts and the likes” she added.

  • Oduyale to deliver OOU aerobics lecture tomorrow

    The Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, will hold its 83rd annual inaugural lecture tomorrow.

    The annual event is organised to get expert opinions on different fields of human endeavour as part of its contribution to national development.

    It is also in line with the varsity’s objective of bridging the gap between the institution and its publics.

    A statement by the institution said Prof. Olutola Oduyale, a Professor of Exercise Physiology, will deliver the lecture with the theme: Achieving Wellness for All: The Aerobics Culture Mandate.

    Oduyale, the son of the late Prof. Timothy Oduyale, who was also an authority in a similar background, is expected to avail a distinguished audience the repertoire of his experience in the subject.

    This is in view of his local and international experience spanning over two decades as an authority in his area of specialisation.

    OOU Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ganiyu Olatunde, is expected to be chairman at the event, assisted by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof Ebun Oduwole.

    The event will hold at the OGD lecture theatre at the varsity’s main campus at 2 p.m.

     

  • OOU matriculates 5912 students

    OOU matriculates 5912 students

    Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ogun State last Friday matriculated 5912 students for its 2017/2018 session.

    The Vice-Chancellor Prof Ganiyu Olatunji while addressing the new students admonished them to have zero tolerance for cultism.

    He advised them to make use of the newly introduced entrepreneurer training for the students as the country has today moved to a position where graduates are meant to be labour employers and job employees.

    He also stated that email address has been generated for all students of the school to communicate with lecturers, submit assignment in order to utilize the school’s functional ICT service.

    A breakdown of the number of students admitted in each faculty are as follows:
    Faculty of Administration – 227
    Faculty of Art – 461
    Basic medical science – 470
    Faculty of Education – 1121
    Faculty of Law – 210
    Faculty of Pharmacy – 89
    Faculty of Science – 1162
    Faculty of Social Science – 1199
    Faculty of Agriculture – 431
    Faculty of Engineering – 475

  • OOU confers doctorate degree on Aig-Imoukhuede

    Chairman of Coronation Capital Limited, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has been conferred with a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa by the Governing Council of Olabisi Onabajo University (OOU), Ogun State.

    The institution said it conferred the honorary degree on the former CEO of Access Bank in acknowledgement of his contributions to national and societal development.

    Speaking at the 27th convocation ceremony of the university, a former Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof (Mrs) Mbang Femi-Oyewo, who presented Aig-Imoukhuede to the institution’s Governing Council for degree conferment noted “the University only confers its honorary degrees on deserving and outstanding individuals, who are exemplary in their endeavours and have shown strength of character.”

    She added that “as a symbol of the university‘s recognition of Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede’s contributions to nation building and sustainable development, as well as our association with his vast achievements in the different facets of human endeavours, the university has found him worthy of its Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa”.

    Aig-Imoukhuede is also founder of the Africa Initiative for Governance (“AIG”), a not-for-profit organisation, established as a catalyst for high public sector performance; bringing leadership, funding and private sector innovation in a private-public partnership to attract, inspire and support future leaders of the public sector.

    In addition to his law degrees, Aig-Imoukhuede holds a Trium MBA, jointly awarded by the London School of Economics, New York University and HEC Paris.

     

  • UI, OOU celebrate Falola at 65

    UI, OOU celebrate Falola at 65

    A two-day conference organised by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ibadan (UI) in honour of Prof Oloruntoyin Omoniyi Falola will start on January 29.

    Falola, who teaches History at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States of America (U.S.A), turned 65 on January 1.

    A statement by the Dean of the faculty, Prof Ademola Sylva, said the theme of the conference is: African Knowledge and Alternative and Alternative Futures.

    According to him, key note addresses will be delivered by Prof Gloria Emeagwali of Central Connecticut State University in the U.S.A and Prof Chris Ogbogbo, President of the Historical Society of Nigeria.

    The conference, which will be declared open by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, will also feature the presentation of Falola’s new publication, titled: The Toyin Falola Reader.

    The climax of the birthday celebration is the conferment of an honorary doctorate degree on Falola by the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) on January 31.

    OOU Vice Chancellor Prof Ganiyu Olatunde said the honour is in recognition of Falola’s contribution to scholarship.

    “The university is very proud of Falola’s outstanding achievements, which have endeared him to the academic world,” Olatunde said.

     

  • Conference on Yoruba politics to hold at OOU October 9

    A three-day international conference on Yoruba politics will hold between October 9 and 11 at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) at Ago-Iwoye n Ogun State.

    The theme of the conference is: The Yoruba Nation and Politics Since the 19th Century.

    Jointly sponsored by the OOU and the University of Texas at Austin in the United States of America (U.S.A), the conference is being organised to honour the late Professor Joseph Adebowale Atanda of the Department of History at the University of Ibadan (UI).

    A statement by the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, Prof O. O. Olubomehin, said the conference will bring over 200 scholars from around the world to deliberate on the place of the Yoruba in the history and politics of Nigeria.

    Besides, he said, the conference will cover the eras the late Prof Atanda explored in his books and essays as well as on his key themes on politics, identity and change.

    Olubomehin, who is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at OOU, noted that the participants will delve into the historic trajectory of the Yoruba nation, personalities, politics, society, cultural regeneration, internal and external relations, trans-national influence and enduring impact on global and local politics.

    According to him, the long-awaited historic anthology of the late Prof Atanda’s work, compiled by Prof Toyin Falola, will be launched at the conference. Olubomehin added that the conference will reopen discussion on several issues and debates, including the emergence of the Yoruba as a distinct socio-cultural group and as a nation, the origin of the Yoruba nation in the crucibles of colonialism and nationalist fervour.

  • Distinguished Governance Lecture holds at OOU

    The distinguished Governance Lecture of the Oba Kayode Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair of Governance will hold today at the OGD Hall, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye.

    It will be delivered by Prof. Banji Oyeyinka, who until last year was the Regional Director for Africa, UN Habitat. Oyeyinka, a professorial fellow at the United Nations University, Mastricht, Netherlands and the Open University, United Kingdom, will speak to the topic ‘From Consumption to Production: A Roadmap for Getting Nigeria out of Economic Recession’.

    A wide circle of scholars, policy makers and politicians from across the divides are expected.

    It will be chaired by Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora. Dr Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Executive Director of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation will serve as Special Guest of Honour.

    According to a statement, the Governance Lecture will bring together town and gown and will situate Nigeria’s economic and political travails within global discourse on Sustainable Development, with a view to generating key ideas for regenerating an economy in trough and throes of recession.

    The Governance Lecture constitutes a high point of the core mandate of the Professorial Chair, which seeks to influence national development by throwing up topical ideas and alternative view points that will move the country beyond the groove of arrested development and a lagard governance culture.