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  • UNIBEN sues Edo Govt

    The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has sued the Edo State Government over the ownership of 18 landed property in the Government Reservation Area.

    The court has fixed March 5 to hear the interlocutory injunction filed by UNIBEN to restrain the government from evicting its staff from the property, pending the determination of the substantive suit.

    The university spokesman, Harris Osarenren, said the government, under the administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, has threatened to dispossess the institution of the property.

    Osarenren said the property were given to the institution under the administration of Brigadier-General Samuel Ogbemudia, who was then Military Governor of Midwestern State.

    He said the property were residential apartments for staff of the university.

    The spokesman said :“The government is bent to taking possession of the said property.”

     

  • UNIBEN admits 5,915, warns against indecent dressing

    UNIBEN admits 5,915, warns against indecent dressing

    The University of Benin, Benin City on friday  admitted five thousand, nine hundred and fifteen students  after subscribing to relevant matriculation oath for the 2012/2013 academic session.

    Prof. Osayuki Oshodin, Vice- Chancellor of the University at the ceremony charged the matriculating students to be loyal and true to the matriculation oath of obedience and respect to the authority of the University that has offered them admission.

    He admonished them to protect and guard their new status jealously, and avoid any unwholesome behavior that may pose threat to the peace and progress of the University.

    While administering the matriculation oath, Prof. Oshodin said the University administration frowns at the indecent clothes many of the female students put on in the name of fashion.

    He said the attitude is disgusting as it has been identified to be one of the major factors responsible for cases of sexual harassment experienced by students.

    The Vice- Chancellor therefore wish that the female students will always appear responsible at all gatherings.

    Advising the students against Examination malpractice, that is a serious misconduct in the institution, Prof. Oshodin said the University authority has zero tolerance for such nefarious act, and its ready at all time to apply appropriate sanctions against offenders.

    “The burning issues of cultism is of great concern to the University. I know some of you may have been initiated into one cult group or the other before you gained admission into this institution, let it be know to you that the our security network will fish you out”.

     

  • UNIBEN lecturer arrested for ‘extortion’

    A senior lecturer at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been arrested on the orders of the university’s management for allegedly extorting money from students.

    The senior lecturer was arrested after he allegedly collected marked money from a female student.

    Sources said the senior lecturer is an Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law. He represents the faculty in a committee set up to coordinate students’ inter-faculty movement every session.

    It was gathered that the lecturer was arrested by the security unit after which it was discovered that the lecturer belonged to a syndicate specialising in extortion of students.

    The female student was said to be studying English in the Faculty of Arts and wanted to change to the Faculty of Law.

    She was reportedly asked to pay N150,000 by the lecturer before her request could be approved.

    Another lecturer was said to have encouraged her to report the matter.

    The student reportedly played along and pleaded to be allowed to pay N100,000, which was agreed to by the lecturer.

    It was gathered that as the student was about to pay the money into an account, the lecturer called her phone and asked her to deliver the money in his office.

    The lecturer was arrested after he collected the marked money and was handed over to the police.

    A source said:“When his (lecturer’s) office was searched, security personnel discovered a list containing 18 names, including the female student’s.’’

    The institution’s spokesman, Harrison Osarenren, confirmed the incident.

    Osarenren said: “The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Osayuki Oshodi, has applauded the team that exposed this syndicate.

    “The lecturer will be arraigned in court soon.’’

  • UNIBEN don claims HIV/AIDS cure drugs

    A  University of Benin (UNIBEN) Professor, Isaiah Ibeh, yesterday announced the development of a new drug that has shown substantial promise to cure HIV and AIDS. Ibeh, who is the Dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of the university, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin that the herbal drug had undergone “series of successful tests”.

    There is yet no cure for HIV/AIDS.

    “We are at the threshold of making history, in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what over time seems to have defied all solutions, said the don, who added: “We are talking about the latest discovery of an oral drug made from plants extraction in Nigeria for the possible cure of the pandemic, HIV and AIDS virus.’’

    According to him, research on the project was started in 2010 and culminated in the development of “Deconcotion X (DX)–Liquid or Bioclean 11 for the cure of HIV and AIDS’’. `

    ‘The existing retroviral drugs are intervention drugs for the management of AIDS but our new discovery is a possible cure. We have tried to look at the product first; its toxicological analysis and discovered that it has a large safety margin.

    “This means that if animals or human beings are exposed to it, they will not suffer any serious harm at all from the exposure. It also helped us to know the quantity we can conveniently give to animals and will feel secure that nothing untoward will happen.

    “We have also done the bacteriological analysis on it, after which we looked at its effect on the virus and the result was quite revealing and refreshing.”

    Ibeh also said that the drug had been exposed to series of medical examination, both in Nigeria and in the United States. He added that the drug had performed well on patients with the HIV virus and had shown evidence of total restoration of damaged tissues.

    “The result showed an increase in the body weight of the individual administered with DX.

    “The body weight was statistically significant when compared with the control group.”

    He said that further tests were being conducted to determine “at what point will a patient become negative after being administered the drug?”. “This verification is necessary because it is what is used to measure whether infection is still there or not. So we need to know the siro-convention time.

    “But preliminary results showed that of the five latest patients orally administered with the drugs, our finding is that up to seven months , three of them were siro negative while two were sill faintly positive.’’

    Ibeh appealed for support from the Federal Government and relevant bodies to assist the university with relevant equipment to sustain the research.