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  • Makinde renames Polytechnic Ibadan after late ex-governor Olunloyo

    Makinde renames Polytechnic Ibadan after late ex-governor Olunloyo

    Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has announced the renaming of The Polytechnic Ibadan after the late former governor of the state, Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo. 

    Recall that the late governor was the pioneer reactor of the institution.

    Governor Makinde made the announcement in his brief remarks at the interdenominational commendation service for the late former governor at the Obafemi Awolowo stadium, Ibadan. 

    Read Also: Makinde mourns victims of Ibadan accident, says death toll rises to 15

    According to Governor Makinde, the institution will now be known as Omololu Olunloyo Polytechnic, Ibadan 

    Details shortly…

  • Ibadan Poly students on rampage, vandalise vehicles on resumption

    Students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan again went on rampage on Wednesday as rival cult group members reportedly attacked one another.

    The violence erupted at the South Gate area of the institution. While several vehicles were vandalized, no life was lost.

    Vehicles, including campus shuttle buses, private cars and tricycles were vandalised.

    The violence occurred on the day the institution reopened for academic activities after five- week compulsory break.

    The break was occasioned by a similar violence that left one student dead.

    In a statement by the Registrar of the institution, Mrs. Modupe Fawale, each student was asked to pay N2, 000 reparation fee on resumption.

    The statement reads: “Each student on resumption is to pay a reparation fee of N2, 000 for the enormous damages of the institution’s facilities.

    “The students will also among other things swear to an affidavit to be of good conduct while those residing in neighboring communities would sign a bond with their landlords to be of good conduct and worthy ambassador of the institution.

    “Each student is also to write an undertaking to be of utmost good conduct.”

    But just before working hours, some of the students reportedly stormed the South gate of the institution with dangerous weapons such as guns, broken bottles and axes.

    It took the intervention of the joint-security task force, Operation Burst and men from the Department of State Services (SSS) to quell the violence.

    They also stayed back to screen people and vehicles moving in and out of the campus.

    An eyewitness, who spoke in confidence, stated the students were trying to protest the payment of N2,000 reparation fee.

  • Ajimobi charges governing council of state varsities on value addition

    Ajimobi charges governing council of state varsities on value addition

    Oyo state Governor Abiola Ajimobi has charged members of the newly inaugurated governing council for the six state owned tertiary institutions to come up with creative ideas that would add value and turn around the fortune of the institutions.

    The governor gave the charge at the Executive Chamber of his office while inaugurating the councils, following their appointment which was announced on Tuesday, January 9.

    The six government owned tertiary institutions including, The Polytechnic, Ibadan; Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo; Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora; The Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa; The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki, and College of Education, Lanlate have been on indefinite strike since November 2 over issues bothering on salary arrears and reduction of subvention to the institutions to 25 percent.

    Ajimobi urged the new appointees to demonstrate creativity and commitment aimed at adding value that would bring new lease of life to the institutions, saying “our institutions have been bedeviled by lots of challenges which are not from us as a government but the present challenges.

    “We have carefully selected you, having found you to be men and women of proven integrity to add value to our institutions.

    “I know all of you by your professionalism, value and competence. We believe in your ability to reposition the institutions. There is no doubt in my mind that you all are equal to the task and will make a difference”

    Clearing the air on the issue of salary arrears that have led to the closure of the institutions by the workers unions, Ajimobi said government was not responsible for the payment of salaries but has been “magnanimous in giving quarterly subventions to the institutions.”

    He urged the governing councils and management of the institutions to work out survival strategies by diversifying out of the traditional source of revenue.

    “We have employed KPMG Advisory Service to audit the institutions. KPMG in its report has advised that some institutions were unsustainable and some should be close down.

    “I charge you to come forth with ideas that will add value and bring a new lease of life to the institutions. We are hopeful that government could review its reduction in subvention as the economy becomes more buoyant,” he said.

    The governor said that the country today was training clerks and not technological staff or entrepreneurs, saying such was the reason for the establishment of Technical University, Ibadan to make a difference.

    Ajimobi said that the institution has commenced academic activities with much emphasis on technology and entrepreneurship.

    Chairman, Governing Council of the Polytechnic Ibadan, Prof. I.A Adeyemi who spoke on behalf of the newly inaugurated councils appreciated the governor for the careful and meticulous selection assuring that they would not let the governor by putting in their best and more so to prove they were men and women of proven integrity.

    “We hope to build strategic idea to bring solutions to the challenges bedeviling the institutions. I assure you that we have already started the efforts here. We should be able to come up with a strategic plan for each institution that will bring about the desired development and expected difference,” he said.

    The event was attended by members of the state executive council and heads of the various institutions.

  • Alarming rise in ‘bush defecation’ in Polytechnic Ibadan

    Alarming rise in ‘bush defecation’ in Polytechnic Ibadan

    It would not be out of place to say that the Polytechnic Ibadan is one of the oldest and foremost polytechnics (academically) in the country today. However, like a rose that have begun to lose its fragrance, the institution is gradually becoming a shadow of itself in so far as its environmental health is concerned.

    As the saying goes – “you can never cheat nature”. It really does not matter whether you are the General Manager or the Gate Man, a teacher or a lawyer, a politician or the common man on the street; when the “E” (excretion) in the popular MR NIGER D comes knocking…YOU MUST OBEY!

    God help you if there are no toilet facilities around you to facilitate your “business”, the bushes around the corners will definitely provide a way of escape for you.

    Lately, there has been an alarming increase in the number of students taking to defecating in bushes due to the dearth in the number of healthy public toilet in the school premises. Are there toilets in the hostels? Yes, there are, but there no toilets in the academic premises that are accessible to the populace.

    Students make use of the bushes around them to do their business; this poses a great threat to them and is detrimental to their health.

    Some very cunny students have devised ways to avoid the “bush” method by pretending to be bank customers and eventually using the toilet facilities. However, the question now is – how long can this continue? For how long are we going to put the health of our students at risk? How long are we going to continue to endanger the lives of our students?

    Students (especially girls) are very susceptible to venereal and skin infections due to unhealthy exposure during excretion in bushes and unkempt toilet facilities.

    This is a clarion call to the management of the Polytechnic Ibadan to begin to place a premium on the health of its students. It is high time they started the process of initiating and creating proper sanitary facilities within the school premises.

    If these acts of defecating in bushes are allowed to continue, it would definitely lead to an outbreak of diseases like cholera etc.

  • The Polytechnic Ibadan graduates 4,977

    The Polytechnic Ibadan graduates 4,977

    The Polytechnic, Ibadan yesterday turned out another set of graduates totaling 4,977.

    They finished their programmes for the 2013/2014 academic session. While 3,675 graduated with National Diploma (ND), 1,302 graduated with Higher National Diploma (HND).

    Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, charged the graduands to think towards self employment.

    The governor also advised the graduands to be innovative and exceptional in whatever endeavor they find themselves, urging them to emulate geniuses including Bill Gates.

    Ajimobi also told the audience at the convocation ceremony that he would continue to support the institution, maintaining that as an individual. he cherishes education and its importance in people’s lives.

    He said: “I stand before you today addressing you simply because of the fact that I am educated. Without education, I doubt whether I would have that opportunity. Not that I was born with silver spoon, my

    father was a tailor before he became a parliamentarian. Then, I used to trek from Oja-Oba (Ibadan ) to Aperin, eating fried plantain. Today, that school boy is the governor addressing you. I believe in handwork and doing something exceptionally. I assure you that we shall continue to support you but I would want the management to ensure that we sit down together regularly to discuss about challenges being faced by the institution so that we can tackle them, so that when next I come here, it will not be that you will table your requests before me because we would have tackled those requests.”