The Nation Newspaper

Tag: STUDENT

  • Student launches book service

    Student launches book service

    A new book delivery service, Streem, has been launched in Lagos by an undergraduate.

    The Founder is Tejumade Adeyinka,  a  200-Level Economics student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

    Tejumade said she was inspired  by the need to help resolve the difficulties parents face in searching for textbooks for their wards.

    She said she was determined to use the service to meet the needs of “busy” parents and professionals who will prefer to have textbooks and inspirational books delivered at their doorsteps.

    Tejumade said the difficulties her mother passed through in her secondary school days spurred her to find solutions to the problem.

    “When I was in secondary school, I was usually given a list of books to be used at the beginning of a new session and my mom would pass through a lot to purchase these books from several bookstores.

    “But now, I’ve realised that every parent is on the move and one hardly has a stay-at-home mom or dad anymore. We recognise this and felt there’s a need to bring to parents a fast and convenient way to purchase books for their children and importantly, have these books delivered at their doorsteps,” she said.

    On how Streem service works, Adeyinka said: “Customers are expected to send a message to streemng@gmail.com with a list of books they would like to buy.

    “After, we’ll send an invoice based on the price list that we currently have. After approval, we agree on a delivery location as well as a mode of payment- which can be either cash on delivery, online transfer, full payment before delivery or half payment before delivery.”

    On how she got the inspiration for Streem, she said it came while she was in secondary school, adding that the likes of Sunkanmi Aladenaye as business partner has helped the idea  materialise.

  • Student anaesthetists launch community outreach

    Student anaesthetists launch community outreach

    No fewer than 600 patients resident in Obe Agbo in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State have been treated free by the Association of West African Students Anesthetists (AWASA), University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH).

    The exercise which covered both children and aged were tested and treated of ailments like high blood pressure, stroke, malaria, typhoid as well as HIV/AIDS.

    The leader of the AWASA team, Emmanuel Agabaidu who spoke at the occasion said the gesture was the little way of showing appreciation to the society which took care of their training.

    He said the exercise was a yearly ritual in which the association reaches out to communities by giving the members free treatment.

    Agabaidu explained, saying,  “Although not all the ailments that can be treated by us, we do as much as possible to treat those we are able to and refer the difficult ones to specialists.”

    The AWASA leader said his members contribute money on their own volition to purchase drugs for the exercise.

    The traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Osita Nweke who was overwhelmed by the gesture of the AWASA expressed joy that his community was benefitting from the exercise.

    He also expressed happiness that members of the community turned out enmasse “the way we want it.”

    “I wish the AWASA well for remembering our community. We have the majority as you can see that more and more people are trooping in to be tested and treated,” said the royal father.

    Also the chairman of the Nkanu West local council, Afam Okereke who was represented by the official of the council, Barhlomew Edeh said Obe Agbo was privileged among the 47 communities in the local council to be chosen.

    He said the exercise would ginger the council into installing “a rewarding structure of preventive medicine.”

    He urged the people to continue on their agricultural ventures because a “well fed person leads a healthy life.”

    “I am happy that the AWASA team is here today. And I am happy that the people responded by turning out in large numbers. No doubt that by the end of the day, everybody will be happy of the exercise,” remarked the chairman.

     

  • 12 FUTA students to complete studies in US

    12 FUTA students to complete studies in US

    The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof Adebiyi Daramola, has counseled 12 students of the university, who will complete their programmes at the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, to be of good behaviour.The 12  are the fourth set of  students to benefit from an academic exchange programme between the two institutions.

    The VC urged them to sustain the good image of their university in America at a send-off organised for them.

    Reviewing the performance of the students  since the inception of the 4+1+1 programme under which selected FUTA students would complete the last year of their undergraduate programme in FAMU and proceed to do their masters, Daramola said: “I am very happy to announce to you that your predecessors in the programme have made us proud.  They keep our flag flying and keep making us shine.  I want you to make FUTA shine better.  Since the programme started, we have received positive reports about our students.  They have performed morally and academically well.  As I am talking to you, one of them, who went in 2014 will be completing his Doctorate in April, 2017.   That is why I always say sky is not just the limit, but the starting point for the serious type.  Therefore, I urge you to utilise this rare opportunity to your full advantage.”

    Daramola urged the students to justify their parents’ investment and be good ambassadors of their country. He also spoke of a similar programme taking off in Germany next year.

    “Our collaboration with world class universities keep soaring.  By next year, our students will be going to Germany.  This is because we want them to have opportunities their peers in other universities in Nigeria do not have,” he said.

    In his address, the Director, International Office, FUTA, Prof Akintunde Akindahunsi, counseled the students to face their studies and not misuse the opportunity.  He described  America as a land of opportunities open to both success and failure, depending on one’s choice.

    Responding on behalf of his peers, Oladosun Olayinka of the Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering (MME) assured the University Management and parents that they will be of good behaviour.

    Another student, Akintola Taofeek of the Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering said: “I did not expect this coming my way when I started my studies here, but I see it as God’s making.  I want to advice other students to study hard because there is no time success cannot come one’s way.”

    Chidinma Obinegbo described the exchange programme as a privilege. “I am really excited with this achievement.  You cannot come by this opportunity in other higher institutions in Nigeria.  It is a rare privilege that should not be abused,” she said.

  • Students go fishing as flood overruns school

    Students go fishing as flood overruns school

    The premises of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Warri, literally became a fish pond, following an early morning downpour that flooded the school. Students plunged into the pool on walkways to catch fish brought by the flood. UGOCHUKWU SOSTHENES (Petroleum Engineering and Geo-science) reports.

    Students of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun, Warri, Delta State, woke up last Tuesday in a pool. The campus was flooded, following hours of an early morning downpour, which did not stop the ongoing second semester examination. Students were seen wading through the water-logged pathways to their examination halls.

    The heavy rain started at 4am and lasted two hours. Many students were trapped in classrooms where they went to study at night ahead of Mathematics examination to be written the following morning. The two-hour downpour unfortunately resulted in the flooding of their classrooms.

    The school library, which has a well-constructed drainage, was equally flooded. The flood carried  in its rage, a heap of debris to the school gate messing up the entire area. Some areas on the campus could not be accessed owing to the flood.

    The flood, CAMPUSLIFE gathered, might have been caused by the nearby Effurun River, which overflowed its bank. Different live fish were seen swimming in the flood on the campus. The roads leading to the campus stadium and the main Laboratory Complex were unpassable as many feared dangerous reptiles might be in the flood.

    To the students, the fish were manna from heaven. Some, who were not writing examinations that day, waded through the flood to catch fish. None of the students who went “fishing” returned empty handed; they all went back to their hostels with their catch.

    Describing the flooding as unprecedented, a lecturer, who did not want his name in print, said: “Ever since I started teaching in this school, I have not witnessed this magnitude of flood on the campus.”

    Sunday Egon, an ND 1 Science Laboratory Technology student, who went for night reading before the rain, said: “When water started flowing into the classrooms, everybody started packing their books. Then, it became unbearably cold. We were all trapped and could not return to hostels, because the flood covered every pathway. It was difficult to distinguish the drainage from the pathway. We ended up going late for our papers,” he said.

    It took more than 12 hours before the flood receded. A management source blamed the flooding on poor drainage in the town. CAMPUSLIFE gathered that drains in Effurun had been blocked for years, because of poor construction and blockage by waste materials. The source said PTI may continue to experience flooding until a cleanup exercise is carried out to through the drains and canals in the town.

  • Navy in Rivers trains 45 students

    Navy in Rivers trains 45 students

    The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has trained 45 students, aged between 5 and 15 years, in golf to represent the country in future championships.

    The Base Operations Officer of NNS Pathfinder, Navy Capt. Victor Choji, at the closing ceremony of the maiden Children Golf Holiday Championship in Port Harcourt, stated that the benefiting students of primary and secondary schools, were drawn from various communities in Rivers state.

    Choji disclosed that the championship was organised to achieve three purposes: maintaining and improving civil-military relations; boosting security and discovery of talents.

    He said: “The golf championship seeks to engage children constructively, especially during holiday period and also to introduce them to the game of golf.

    “We believe that most criminal acts are perpetrated by the youths. If we catch kids young and we make them develop interest in sports, the country will be better for it.

    “If this is done, the children will have more positive and constructive activities to engage themselves as they grow up, rather than involving themselves in criminal activities.

    “The programme is also designed to win the hearts and minds of our host communities, while hoping that some of the kids will go on to represent Nigeria in future golf championships.”

    Choji also stated that the naval headquarters had similar sporting activities to keep officers and ratings fit, while improving their proficiency in various marine operations ongoing in the Niger Delta.

    The base operations officer of NNS Pathfinder gave an assurance that the golf championship would be sustained, while urging more students to be available in the next edition.

    The Managing Director of an oil and gas firm, Amnipet, Ishiaku Malik, in his remarks, stated that lack of investment in grass-roots sports was partly responsible for poor showing of Nigeria in major tournaments.

    He said the golf championship would give the students the opportunity to develop interest in sports and become great athletes.

    Malik said: “In the past, inter-house sports competitions were taken seriously, but these days, you hardly see such programmes designed to discover young talents.

    “This event will help to discover and possibly harness talents that will represent and make Nigeria proud in sporting competitions.”

    Managing director of Amnipet also urged the navy to engage corporate organisations to expand the championship, in order to accommodating more children.

    Prizes such as laptops and textbooks were presented to the participating students.

  • Lagos earmarks N15.5m for student entrepreneurs

    The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved  N15.5 million as seed funds and grants for final year students of Lagos State tertiary institutions enrolled in the Ready.Set.Work (RSW) entrepreneurship/employability training programme.

    The N15.5million will be distributed as working capital among the top three teams to emerge from the RSW Business Pitch Competition, scheduled to hold September 3, 2016.

    The competition will feature as curtains lower on the initiative, which exposed 500 final year students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), and the Lagos State College of Health Technology to 13 weeks of employability and entrepreneurship training since June.

    Special Adviser to the governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh said in a statement that about 80 of the best performing students in the entrepreneurship stream of the initiative would undergo three-six months’ apprenticeship learning from seasoned entrepreneurs on how to run successful businesses.

    This is in addition to 90 students from the employability stream who would be placed on six-month internships with such firms as PwC, SystemSpecs, FCMB, GTBank, Access Bank, TOTAL, Jobberman, and Stutern, among others.

    He said: “Our focus from the onset has been providing students in Lagos State with the tools, knowledge, and know-how to become effective employees or job creators. We already secured 90 internship slots for students in the employability track of the program and we realised that students in the entrepreneurship track could also benefit from experience in a structured, supervised work setting, where they can learn the rudiments of running a business effectively.”

  • Lagos earmarks N15.5m for student entrepreneurs

    The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved  N15.5 million as seed funds and grants for final year students of Lagos State tertiary institutions enrolled in the Ready.Set.Work (RSW) entrepreneurship/employability training programme.

    The N15.5m will be distributed as working capital among the top three teams to emerge from the RSW Business Pitch Competition, scheduled to hold September 3, 2016.

    The competition will feature as curtains lower on the initiative, which exposed 500 final year students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), and the Lagos State College of Health Technology to 13 weeks of employability and entrepreneurship training since June.

    Special Adviser to the governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh said in a statment that about 80 of the best performing students in the entrepreneurship stream of the initiative would undergo three-six months’ apprenticeship learning from seasoned entrepreneurs on how to run successful businesses.

    This is in addition to 90 students from the employability stream who would be placed on six-month internships with such firms as PwC, SystemSpecs, FCMB, GTBank, Access Bank, TOTAL, Jobberman, and Stutern, among others.

    He said: “Our focus from the onset has been providing students in Lagos State with the tools, knowledge, and know-how to become effective employees or job creators.”

  • Lagos earmarks N15.5m for student entrepreneurs

    Lagos earmarks N15.5m for student entrepreneurs

    The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved  N15.5 million as seed funds and grants for final year students of Lagos State tertiary institutions enrolled in the Ready.Set.Work (RSW) entrepreneurship/employability training programme.

    The N15.5million will be distributed as working capital among the top three teams to emerge from the RSW Business Pitch Competition, scheduled to hold September 3, 2016.

    The competition will feature as curtains lower on the initiative, which exposed 500 final year students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), and the Lagos State College of Health Technology to 13 weeks of employability and entrepreneurship training since June.

    Special Adviser to the governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh said in a statement that about 80 of the best performing students in the entrepreneurship stream of the initiative would undergo three-six months’ apprenticeship learning from seasoned entrepreneurs on how to run successful businesses.

    This is in addition to 90 students from the employability stream who would be placed on six-month internships with such firms as PwC, SystemSpecs, FCMB, GTBank, Access Bank, TOTAL, Jobberman, and Stutern, among others.

    He said: “Our focus from the onset has been providing students in Lagos State with the tools, knowledge, and know-how to become effective employees or job creators. We already secured 90 internship slots for students in the employability track of the program and we realised that students in the entrepreneurship track could also benefit from experience in a structured, supervised work setting, where they can learn the rudiments of running a business effectively.”

  • Students display products at poly’s exhibition

    The Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MAPCED) has held its 3rd Entrepreneurship Development Exhibition tagged: MAPCED Open Market Day. The event, held at Matriculation Ground, started at noon last Wednesday.

    Students besieged the venue to showcase their wares and products. Among the items exhibited included lapel pins, lanyards, shopping bags, electric sockets, air fresheners, liquid soaps, key holders, hair creams and petroleum jelly among others. All the products were manufactured by students.

    The event was graced by MAPCED Director, Mr David Aninkan, who emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship and vocational training in technical education. He said the polytechnic had ensured students did not only acquire skills alone, but also ensured spirit of entrepreneurship was incorporated in students to enable them become job creators.

    He said: “The problem of unemployment is taking its toll on our youths and graduates, who are seeking employments by the day. It is a known fact that through appropriate skills and sufficient entrepreneurial practice, this problem can be solved. There should be linkage between knowledge and development in our education. This is the best way the public and private sectors will be prospered.”

    The Rector, Prof Oludele Itiola, hailed students for their entrepreneurial strides, urging them to develop good business spirit to be successful in the vocation they chose for themselves.

    The rector added that the current trend of joblessness in the country should make the youths not to relent on academic certificates, but to acquire skills to create jobs.

    Itiola said: “It is important that you don’t see this as something you have to do to pass your courses, but as an avenue to gather experiences that might be useful after graduation.”

    At the end of the event, students engaged in trade by barter, exchanging their products for another. Participants at the programme were entertained by a live band as they buy and sell wares.

  • Student, two others sentenced to death for armed robbery

    AN Ikeja High Court yesterday sentenced three persons, including a student, to death by hanging for armed robbery.

    Ganiyu Hassan, the student/commercial motorcyclist, an aluminium worker, Wasiu Arepo, and a driver, Oluwaseun Idowu were convicted on a four-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and murder contrary to Section 402 (2) (a) of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State, 2011, and Section 319 (1) (a) of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    According to the prosecutor, Mrs Aderonke Akande, the convicts committed the offence on February 5, 2011 at Aleke village, Imota at 2am.

    The convicts were said to have stormed the house of their victims, Mrs Adijatu Bakare and her husband, Abubakar.

    They asked Abubakar to produce the money he withdrew from the bank a day earlier.

    During the operation, Arepo shot Abubakar in the chest after which they ransacked the house and carted away N15,000 cash and other valuables.

    Abubakar was left in a pool of his own blood. He was reported to have died on his way to the hospital.

    The convicts were caught about two hours after the incident by the vigilante group in a nearby community where they went to hide.

    The wife of the victim reported the matter at Imota Police Station and later identified one of the convicts whom she saw during the operation.

    During the trial, the convicts pleaded not guilty and denied involvement in the robbery.

    They claimed that they were at home on the night of the incident.

    Delivering judgment, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

    “The three accused, agreeing that they slept in the same room on the day of the incident, showed they know each other and were arrested at the same place at 4am on the day of the incident. They did not prove that they were somewhere else when the incident happened. The prosecution had proved beyond doubt the offence of conspiracy and murder against the accused. They are therefore sentenced to death by hanging,” the judge said.