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  • TASCE workers after my life, says provost

    The crisis rocking Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, took another dimension as protesting workers gathered in front of the school main gate last week to  organise mock burial rites for the Provost of the college, Dr Lukmon Adeola Kiadese.

    The workers  were angry over unpaid salaries arrears, cooperative deductions and unremitted pension, among others. The workers displayed the portrait of Kiadese and shared akara (bean cake) supposedly to wish him farewell.

    Addressing a briefing at Omu-Ijebu in Ogun State, Kiadese said he was highly embarrassed to see such anomalies on campus, adding that it was about time COTAS stopped such unwholesome attitude. He described the workers’ action as against the plea bargaining made with the Ogun State governor-elect Prince Dapo Abiodun.

    Kiadese recalled that Abiodun had earlier waded into the matter and promised to personally visit the institution as soon as he resumed office. He said it is regrettable that COTAS backpedalled on the agreement, burned down his portrait and fried beans cake during their demonstrations.

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    Kiadese said: “All what they are doing is against the rule of law. Nobody should be wishing anybody dead because the truth is, I am not the one owing them, it’s the government. They should go to Oke-Mosan (Governor House) and demonstrate, but not on the campus.”

    He added that it was now clear that there some external forces who are lobbying to upstage are using COTAS to fuel the crisis.

    He said despite that part of the workers’ salaries have been paid, the Aborisade-led coalition were really after his life and not their salaries any longer. Kiadese alleged that workers invited herbalists to place some concoctions at certain parts of the university, scaring away students in the process.

  • TASCE workers call for resignation of provost

    The employees of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, have asked the provost of the college, Dr. Lukmon Adeola Kiadese, to voluntarily resign his appointment as the college’s provost as the college staff passed vote of no confidence in him.

    This was made at the resolution of the Coalition Staff Union of the College (COTAS), headed by Mr. Daniel Aborisade while briefing journalists on the outcome of its meeting with the new Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP, Bashir Dabup Makama, at the college auditorium and degree conference, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State.

    He said the CP had met with members of warring groups to cement a truce brokered to end the crisis that engulfed the institution management.  He said that the brewing crisis started two and half years ago when the provost resumed office with the promise to find lasting solutions to the crisis that engulfed the institution, which ranged from unpaid salaries, salary arrears, unremitted pension, cooperative deductions and promotion arrears.

    While staging a walk-protest to Area Command Igbeba, Ijebu-Ode, the coalition was chanting solidarity songs and carrying placards with inscriptions like ‘Police is our friends,’ ‘Kiadese must go,’ ‘Enough Is Enough,’ ‘Dr. Kiadese, it is time to go’.

    Against the backdrop of sending police to arrest its members by the provost, Aborisade asked the Nigeria Police to stay clear from the matter as the issue was between the Ogun State government, the college’s provost and the entire management, but demanded the resignation of the provost as he could not handle the institution’s matter.

    Meanwhile, the commissioner of police has appealed to both members to sheathe their sword and allow peace to reign in the college for the betterment of the students and management both academic and non-academic staff, noting that there’s nothing to gain in crisis but enmity.

    Makama said that it was good to press for their demand but they need to do it in a peaceful atmosphere, assuring them that no member of their union would be arrested, molested or maimed by any police officer under his purview in the state.

  • Our lives in danger, say TASCE workers

    THE academic and non-academic workers of the Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, have accused the college’s provost, Dr. Lukmon Adeola Kiadese and the Acting Bursar, Mr. Gbenga Olusanya, of sending assassins after them for demanding for their unpaid salaries and other benefits.

    Chairman, Coalition Staff Union of the College (COTAS) Mr. Daniel Aborisade stated this at a news conference organised to register their grievance at the college’s Auditorium and Degree Conference, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State.

    He accused the provost of being biased and partisanship in addressing issue of the college’s academic progression.

    Aborisade said the provost was fond of sending assailants after the union members and other staff for demanding for justice on their plights.

    He alleged that the provost has petitioned several security agents to arrest them, but all efforts proved abortive.

    Aborisade added that was why the provost now resolved to send assailants after the staff, with the hope that the call for justice in the college would be stopped.

    “Though the provost is a member of Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) and he worked assiduously for the emergency of Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade to become the governor, but now that they have failed, he is now transferring the aggression on the staff of the college, which is none of our problem. He will fail,” Aborisade said

    He added that the college staff have been going through catalogue of problems since 2009, ranging from unpaid salaries, salary arrears, unremitted pensions, cooperative deductions and promotion arrears.

    The union leader noted that petitions written to the governor, the police and Directorate of State Service(DSS) yielded no result.

    He appealed to the police, Department of State Security (DSS) and other security agents to protect their lives.

    Reacting to the allegation, the college’s provost said it was a mere fabrication and false allegation been levelled against him.

    He noted that one of the union members, Mr. Olaoluwa Oguntubo, was threatening his life and other college lecturers in the campus.

    He said Oguntubo threatened to kill him, his Administrative Officer, Mr. Adebayo Temitayo, a lecturer in the Department of Business Education, Adetowubo King and Akinola H.J, the Tetfund Officer, if they persist in helping the provost in the day-to-day running of the college.

    When contacted, King said the union had been hijacked by rogues and hoodlums.

    He noted that the union’s relationship with the provost was once very cordial and suddenly turned sore for no just reasons.

  • NUC approves seven programmes at TASCE

    The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved seven degree programmes for state – owned Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State.

    The approved programmes to be run in affiliation with the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, from the 2018/2019 academic session include: Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Education; Guidance and Counselling; and Social Studies.

    Speaking on the Degree Programmes, the Provost, Dr Adeola Kiadese Lukmon, praised Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Modupe Mujota for the College’s development, which contributed to the actualisation of the programme.

    Lukmon added that with the affiliation, the vision of making TASCE a preferred College of Education in 21st Century had become a reality.

  • Emulate TASCE alumni Development Initiatives, Ogun Speaker tasks other alumni

    The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Suraju Ishola Adekunbi has charged members of various alumni associations in Nigeria to emulate the Alumni members of Tai-Solarin College of Education (TASCE)  for showing concern on the need to address development  issues affecting their alma -mater.

    Adekunbi threw the challenge while playing host to members of Alumni Association of the TASCE led by its National President, Julius Adeyemi on a courtesy visit to the Assembly at Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta.

    The Speaker represented by his Deputy, Olakunle Oluomo applauded the association for its active involvement and commitment to educational advancement of the school, while encouraging them not to rest on their oars.

    Adekunbi added that the development of the nation, particularly the educational sector required the collaborative efforts of Government at all levels, alumni associations and well-meaning citizens to achieve  an effective education system.

    Earlier in his address, the alumni President of the School appreciated Senator Ibikunle Amosun led -administration for prioritizing the development of the sector, soliciting the support of the lawmakers in addressing the challenges confronting the college.

     

  • TASCE workers allege impersonation of college IGR

    The College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), the Non Academic Staff Union, and the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education in Nigeria (SUCCOEN), Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Chapter, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State, have urged the government to return its investments to the Institution.

    The unions, through their chairmen,  alleged that the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) dubiously took over their sources of income from them and influenced the former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, to relocate them to a new place, which they described as the ‘dungeon of Omu’.

    The chairmen spoke at a joint briefing held on the premises of the institution  in  Ijebu-Ode.

    The union also demanded the composition of a new Governing Council for the institution so that the government will not always feel the heat of workers unrest.

    Until March 2005 when it metamorphosed into the first university of education in Nigeria, TASCE was a Nigeria Certificate of Education (NCE) awarding institution  affiliated to the University of Ibadan. Consequently, it started running degree programmes between 1998 and 2005.

    The college was once ranked by the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) as the fourth best amongst the 63 colleges of education nationwide, necessitating the need for its upgrade to a university.  A pane constituted to oversee the change recommended that TASCE be moved from Ijagun to Omu-Ijebu, which are still within the same local council,  and where TASUED now sits.

    The Chairman of SSUCOEN, Comrade Segun Odunola, alleged that TASUED is issuing certificate to some old students of the institution in the name of TASCE with huge amount of money without remitting same to TASCE’s purse.

    He said: “Pending the time government will release the white paper on the existence of the Tai Solarin Institutions (TASCE and TASUED), as submitted by the visitation panel, all the certificates of affiliated programmes of TASCE, being issued out by TASUED together with huge funds realised from the issuance of primary and secondary schools at the TASUED’s Igbeba, should be controlled by TASCE to boost its IGR.

    “Alternatively, all the proceeds from the IGRs being appropriated by TASUED should be shared between TASCE and TASEUED pending the time the government will implement  its white paper on the two Tai Solarin Institutions.”

    NASU’s Chairman, Comrade Olatunji Osoba, urged the government to pay the outstanding 48 months salaries owed workers by its predecessor, premising his argument on the fact that governance is continuum.

    “I am pleading that the state government should pay up our arrears from July 2009 to June 2013. We also urged them to regularise our salaries because we all have families to cater for.”

    COEASU Chairman, Dr. Dan Oludipe, admonished government to return TASCE to its permanent  site, saying students are not comfortable with the new location.

    “We want government to return TASCE to its permanent site at Ijagun. If this is done, TASCE will have access to her IGRs and will be able to assist government  in  meeting some of its financial obligations to the college. In fact, prospective students visiting TASCE, Omu, for the first time, always feel discouraged because they see the new location as a glorious secondary school at the moment,” he said.

  • Tai Solarin admits 900

    Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE) Omu-Ijebu, has matriculated over 900 new students into the NCE) programmes for the 2012/2013 academic session.

    The college Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo advised the students to take the vocational training they would be exposed to seriously.

    He noted that vocational training is the only antidote to the perennial unemployment in Nigeria since no government or organised private sector could employ all school graduates.

    Ojo also blamed both leadership and followership on Nigeria’s current predicament, particularly the tendencies of negative behaviours by the former.

    He said: “No sooner would a leader emerge either at the executive appointment or legislative cadre, than the enormous demands placed on them by followership are usually beyond what their legitimate earnings could accommodate.”

    More complicating, Ojo stressed, is the tendency of Nigerians to crucify any public office holder who choose not to help himself with the nation’s s resources at the end of his tenure in office.

    He urged the new intakes to shun acts that could jeopardise their studies, noting that cultism, which is an albatross in the higher institutions, is an avenue for self-destruction and bleak future.

    Drawing analogy from termites and bees – two insect – creatures, the Provost enjoined students to distance themselves from the ‘Termite Club’ and join the ‘Bee Club’.

    According to him, termites destroy to the point of collapse while the patient bees tarry for trees to flower, pick the pollen grains to produce the honey, while at the same time, leaving the tree alive.

     

  • Ogun to address college welfare issues

    Ogun to address college welfare issues

    The Ogun State Government has assured Trade Unions of the Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Ogun State, that all their demands for improved welfare packages would be met.

    Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Olusegun Odubela said this after meeting with leaders of major trade unions of the college who were agitating for increased welfare package.

    He said most of the demands by the unions were the ones left unattended to by the immediate past administration, adding that the present government has been paying subvention to the college and other public higher institutions since inception May last year. He therefore called on the workers to maintain the peace while the government finds lasting solution to the problem.

    “No solution can be provided in a rancorous environment, we must be patience and allow both the management and the state government to find lasting solution to the problem at hand,” Odubela said.

    The Non Academic Staff Union and Allied Institution (NASU), Tai Solarin College of Education, in a four-point demand signed by Comrades Osoba Olatunji and Osho Debowale Chairman and General Secretary, is among others demanding the immediate implementation of the new minimum wage; immediate payment of 10 months salary arrears and the constitution of the Governing Council of the college.

    Similar demands were also made by the Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education in Nigeria (SSUCOEN) and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), TASCE chapter.

    Meanwhile, the Ogun State Government has re-iterated its call on wealthy individuals and groups to partner with it to improve the standard of education.

    Odubela made the plea at the handing over of an ultra-modern library donated by Pastor John Baiyewu to Anglican High School, Abeokuta, his alma mater.

    Odubela said the provision of qualitative education requires huge financial commitment which can not be shouldered by the Government alone, hence the need for the support of public-spirited individuals and groups.

    “If we must ensure standard and quality in our education system, there is need for individuals who are rich to join hands with us in our bid to improve the quality of education we give our children” he said.

    However, the Commissioner said that despite the lean resources at the state’s disposal, its free education programme, construction of Model Schools, rehabilitation of dilapidated blocks of classrooms and the newly introduced unified examination for secondary school students would be pursued with vigour.