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  • Mixed reactions trail varsity’s e-exam

    Mixed reactions have continued trail the electronic examination at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State.

    Students decried poor grading, saying many have become victims of the error-prone system.

    CAMPUSLIFE learnt that in the recent university exams, lecturers introduced the fill-in-the-gap questions, which made many unable to type the write answer as they would have done if it were to be multi choice method.

    It was gathered that students were made to type their answers in boxes provided on the system. A lecturer who pleaded anonymity, told CAMPUSLIFE that there was no need to introduce the new e-exam feature, saying “our students are becoming lazy because they do objective questions, they can easily do the guess-work.”

    The students on different social medias and in different forms agigated seriously on the devastating effect of this exam format on their acacdemic performance.

    The Students’ Union Public Relations Officer (PRO), Habeeb Oyekunle, said many students failed because they “crammed words from their notes as it was taught and typed according to what is programmed on the system of which they seemingly do not know.”

    Registering their grievances, students, led by SUG officials, met with the principal officers, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) officials to make complaints.

    Habeeb said: “The Vice Chancellor ruled against this form of exam and he further instructed that it be stopped as he advised lecturers that want to do fill in the gap exams to use paper especially with OMR sheet.”

  • Varsity gets workers’ ultimatum

    Varsity gets workers’ ultimatum

    The Kogi State University (KSU) in Anyigba is facing fire from academic and non-academic staff, who are threatening to go on strike by the end of the month if their demands are not met. MOHAMMED YABAGI (200-Level Mass Communication) reports.

    THOUGH the school just resumed for the second semester, the workers seem not bothered as they are raring to go on strike unless their demands are met.

    The academic and non-academic staff of Kogi State University (KSU) in Anyigba are threatening to down tools by the end of the month over the state of the institution and non-payment of their allowance.

    Last Thursday, academic and other activities were disrupted during a meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), a unified body of all non-academic unions on campus. The congress came 48 hours after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) met with similar agenda. They issued ultimatums, which they said the management and the Governing Council must comply with.

    JAC’s congress began with a minute silence in honour of the late former Vice-Chancellor, Prof Francis Idachaba.

    The JAC chairman, Comrade Moses Balogun, said members were tired of the prevailing workers’ condition, adding that the congress was organised to give the management for dialogue. Failure to reach out to the workers before September 30, Balogun said, would  lead to an indefinite strike.

    He said: “Members regret the current dilapidating situation that the institution is grappling with and we want the state government to intervene in the matter. The situation we are facing in this institution is nothing to write home about. We want the public to know that the management and Governing Council of the Kogi State University are killing the institution. Government must intervene in this matter before it is too late.

    “We are saddened to inform the public that just about six years ago, KSU was the best state-owned university in the country. It was the sixth best university among all universities, but in the last National Universities Commission (NUC) rating, the institution is ranked 111th of the 112 universities in the country.”

    Balogun, who noted that other state-owned schools, such as Nasarawa State University, Katsina State University and Kaduna State University, used to look up to the institution, wondered when things went wrong.

    He urged management to comply with the September 30 ultimatum for addressing workers’ grievances, failing by the non-academic workers, failure which would result in what he described as “total strike without looking back.”

    Balogun added: “In as much as we feel the pains of parents and students, the action is necessary because if we don’t take the action now, certificates of our graduates will not worth the value of common tissue paper.”

    The university’s ASUU chapter gave management up till September 29 to resolve what it described as “unacceptable situation the institution is facing”.

    Its chairman, Comrade Sylvester Okuteno, said members were worried about things in the university.

    Okuteno said: “The situation we are facing in this school is one that we never thought we would ever experience. It is unbearable. The university is dying, there’s need for urgent intervention. We cannot fold our arms and watch the conditions go worse.”

    Balogun said the JAC’s demands included non-payment of hazard allowance and arrears, responsibility allowance, excess tax on staff salaries, non-implementation of minimum wage and pension, non-implementation of excess workload allowance and staff/students ration.

    After the congress, JAC’s leaders led members on peaceful protests on major roads in Anyigba, chanting anti-management songs. They carried placards, some with unprintable expressions.

    Some of the protesters demanded the Vice Chancellor’s removal for “killing the university”, which they described as the pride of the Igala people.

    The protesters marched to the palace of the Ogohi of Anyigba, Alhaji Aliyu Okolo, to inform him of the “inhuman condition” in the institution.

    The workers said the Governing Council was more interested in promoting its selfish interest rather than the welfare of the staff.

    Balogun, who spoke on the protesters’ behalf, said: “Staff members are leaving the university in droves because their welfare is not being taken care of. When they leave and go elsewhere, they make their new workplace better than they met it through the experiences they garnered in KSU. That is one of the reasons why the standard of the university is on decline. We are saying enough is enough.”

    He presented the union’s demands and the alleged inadequacies of the management to the monarch for presentation to Governor Idris Wada.

    The traditional ruler pleaded with the workers not to do anything that would jeopardise the institution’s progress. He called for caution in the pursuit of their demands.

    The monarch praised the workers for their civility, promising that their letter would be forwarded to the governor.

    A member of the management, who pleaded anonymity, dismissed the workers’ demand as frivolous and mischievous. He said there were other serious issues the council and management are concerned about rather than the mischief of few individuals who think they can hold the institution to ransom.

    “They don’t have any problem with the school. They only have problem with the government, which they accused of overtaxing them. It is an issue on which management has written to government and government, in turn, has instructed the state internal revenue service to look into it. It is being looked into as I speak to you.”

    The source said the vice-chancellor would communicate the management’s position to the workers on Tuesday.

    CAMPUSLIFE gathered that the Students’ Union Government (SUG), led by John Idachaba, has been meeting with the parties to ensure the issues are resolved amicably without the campus being closed down.

     

  • Varsity expels 119 students

    The North-West University, owned by Kano State, has expelled 119 students for “admission irregularities”.

    In a statement, the university’s Head of Corporate Communications, Alhaji Abdullahi Hassan, said the authorities discovered some irregularities during the verification of students admitted for the 2013/2014 academic session.

    The statement reads: “The university, in the course of routine verification of admitted students for the 2013/2014 session, discovered some irregularities in the admission of 119 students into some faculties. The North-West University has zero-tolerance for such action, hence the decision to expel them from the institution.”

  • A varsity’s accommodation blues

    Three students were hospitalised following a stampede for hostel accommodation at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University (UDUS), Sokoto, last week. HALIMAH AKANBI (300-Level Law), IBRAHIM JATTO (Zoology) and ISMAT ANIFOWOSE (300-Level Economics) report.

    For students of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), securing accommodation on campus has always been a problem. Though the institution has vast land, it can only provide accommodation for less than 20 per cent of its students.

    Every year, it is a struggle to get space in the hostel. The story is the same this year. The rush for bed space is began as soon as the management got applications for accomodation.

    Out of desperation, students besieged the designated submission centres the previous night. Some of them passed the night there to submit early.

    At 7am, there was a crowd of students, pushing and shoving before the university officials arrived to start the exercise.

    In the ensuing commotion, three students fainted. They were rushed to the health centre. The presence of the school security personnel did not stop the chaos, as scores of students sustained injuries.

    When the situation was getting out of hand, the Dean of Students’ Affairs, Dr Adamu Aliero, stopped the exercise.

    Days later, the Students’ Affairs Division announced an alternative application method. The unit introduced online application, which required students to log in to a special portal within seven days.

    The chairman of the bed space allocation committee and Deputy Dean of Students’ Affairs, Dr Aliyu Gobir, said the online application was necessary to avert chaos.

    He said: “Accommodation problem is not peculiar to UDUS alone; it is a problem in most universities. We have hostels that can only accommodate less than 25 per cent of our students. The allocation of bed spaces is based on first-come-first-serve, which is the reason students slept at the submission centres to apply early. In this year’s exercise, there appeared to be more pressure becaue everybody wanted to apply. We had to cancel the manual application procedure for the online application after a careful study of the situation on ground.”

    The cancellation of the manual application procedure was to avert danger, Dr Aliero said. He said the rush for submission could lead to a stampede, adding that the management did not expect such chaotic conduct of students.

    Asked what the university was doing to provide more hostels, Dr Aliero said: “The management is doing its best and we have been engaging private firm to come and build more hostels. Just recently, the Kano State government came in to build a new hostel. We have also taken over abandoned hostel project by Zamfara State government. Old Hostel library has been rehabilitated to accommodate female students. More are still coming.”

    Students hailed the management for stopping the exercise, urging it to hasten the completion of hostel it is building. This, Hannatu Aliyu, 100-Level Physics, said would reduce the stress students go through because of the distance of the campus from town.

    Abdulgafar Saka, a 200-Level Economics student, said: “The reason why we experience accommodation problem every year is the distance of the school to Sokoto town. It is a punishment for students living off-campus to go to school every day. It is annoying to see students struggling to get bed spaces in the school hostels. The probability of getting a bed space is not certain. Management needs to be up to the task of providing accommodation for the students.”

    To Waheed Yusuf, a student of Faculty of Social Sciences, the government should be blamed for not putting students into consideration in the planning of the school. “The government was selfish in its thinking when the school was being established,” he said.

    Olufunmilayo Oladeji, an Agriculture Science student, said: “The problem is not whether students apply manually or via the internet. It is the fact that there are no enough spaces in the hostel to accommodate students. Although, online registration is preferable if only students must be assured of fairness in the selection process.”

    It is to be seen how fair the method will be when students resume for 2014/2015 academic session in a few weeks.

  • IBB varsity joins e-voting train

    Students of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) in Lapai, Niger State have elected their union leaders. It is the first time they have done so through electronic voting, reports YINKA OLATUNBOSUN (400-Level Chemistry).

    Students of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) in Lapai, Niger State have embraced the electronic method of voting.

    Last Tuesday, they elected their leaders through e-voting. The exercise was conducted by graduates of the institution. The Computer Science graduates used the facilities of the SERVICOM unit to collect data of students and develop a software, which synchronised all the data into a single domain.

    Afterwards, usernames and passwords were generated for the registered students. The log in details could only be used once. Students who did not show up for data capturing were not allowed to vote.

    The exercise was adjudged the best in the history of the university. There were independent observers, who monitored the exercise to ensure transparency.

    The electioneering started with a night of manifesto at the University Lecture Theatre, where the candidates sold their programmes to the students. The event was not without jeering by some students, who booed some of the candidates who they described as “management stooges”.

    At  7:30am on the election day, students flocked to the campus to cast vote. At exactly 9:48am, voting began.  Candidates’ agents, officials of the Students’ Affairs Division, journalists from various media organisations and school security personnel monitored the exercise.

    Dr Ebenezer Ogungbe, SERVICOM’s focal officer and returning officer of the election, said the innovation made the exercise  peaceful and rancor-free, promising that there would be improvement in subsequent elections.

    An electoral committee member, Dr Aliyu Maali, said the e-voting method would end the insinuation that management always imposed its preferred candidates on students. He said: “The voting method is transparent and it is clear to the world. Before the election, we received reports from various quarters that the management was trying to influence the exercise and impose candidates on students. We decided to use e-voting method to avoid any manipulation and put a stop to all speculations.”

    However, Suleiman Abdullahi, 200-Level Computer Science and a poll agent, said his candidate was skeptical about the electronic method, saying: “He felt there could be manipulation and this was why he chose me, a Computer Science student, to observe for him.”

    The voting ended at 7:06pm. The announcement of results by Dr Ogungbe followed a few minutes later. It was gathered that, of the 3,216 that registered for the e-voting, only 1,540 voted. More than 3,665 students did not participate in the exercise.

    Having garnered the highest number of votes, Bashir Shuiabu, an Economics student, was returned as the president-elect. Others elected include Fatima Kutigi, Vice-President; Salihu Saidu, General Secretary;  Abdulmajid Abubakar, Assistant General Secretary and Mahmud Muhammad, Financial Secretary.

    Others are Abubakar Yahaya Bida, Treasurer;  Sani Abubakar, Director of Socials; Bashir Abayomi, Director of Sport and Abubakar Ahmed Yerima, Welfare Director.

    Two representatives were elected from each faculty and hostels into the Students’ Representative Council – the legislative arm of the union.

    Meanwhile, the exercise was not without hitches. There were complaints about the number of laptops used for the exercise. While majority of students hailed the process, some urged the management to provide more computers to make the subsequent election faster.

    Attairu Ibrahim Edda, a student, said the software did not allow any student to vote twice. He praised the software developer for ensuring students choose their representative in a fair contest.

    The chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Niger State chapter, Comrade Munirudeen Oladipupo, who observed the election, hailed the management for conducting what he called “a credible exercise”.

    He said the students’ innovative idea in building software to conduct election showed there was hope for the country as the nation approaches the 2015 general election.

    After the results were announced, some students were seen dancing round the campus with the president-elect. One of them said: “At first, we did not trust the credibility of the e-voting method because there were rumour that the process could be manipulated in favour of an anointed candidate. But we glorify Almighty Allah for the outcome because our will prevailed in the end.”

  • Aregbesola seeks better varsity funding

    Aregbesola seeks better varsity funding

    The State of Osun Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said the proliferation of universities would not help the education system except they are well-funded.

    He spoke when the Governing Council and management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, paid him a courtesy visit in Osogbo, the state capital.

    Aregbesola said universities are called citadel of learning because they are well funded to provide knowledge and wisdom that are beneficial to the society.

    He said any university that is worth its salt must be funded enough to provide what the society needs in terms of beneficial knowledge.

    He lamented that some of the nation’s university are poorly funded and, therefore, unable to meet the academic need of the society.

    Aregbesola said funding is one of the most essential ingredient for the  growth of any university, promising that out of the meagre resources available to Osun, his government will jointly fund LAUTECH with Oyo State.

    “A university does not just answer that name unless it is able to provide for the needs of the society.

    “I fancy one great university that is all in all. A university that is well-funded to meet all the academic needs of the society it is founded to serve.

    “Most of the universities we established here are poorly funded and finance is key to the administration of any university.

    “In the case of LAUTECH, our commitment, Osun and Oyo states, is to jointly fund the institution to realise the dream of its founding fathers,” Aregbesola said.

    LAUCTH’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Adeniyi Gbadegesin, promised the management’s and staff’s cooperation with the joint owners of the institution to move the varsity forward.

    “We promise that the management and staff of the institution will continue to cooperate with both the governments of Osun and Oyo to move our institution and states forward,” Gbadegesin said.

  • CEPTAC donates tourism books to varsity

    CEPTAC donates tourism books to varsity

    THE Centre for the Promotion of Peace, Tourism, Art and Culture (CEPTAC) has donated tourism and historical books to the Ignatius Ajupu University of Education  ( formerly Rivers State University of Education), Port Harcourt. Among the books donated to the school were: Memories of the Niger Delta Slave Trade Routes and Towards the Culture of Peace in the Niger Delta.

    In his speech while presenting the books to the vice-chancellor of the school, Professor Rosemond Dienye Green Osahogulu, the president of the CEPTAC, Chief Amachree, said the NGO decided to present the books to the school to avail the youths the opportunity to know more the history and culture of their fatherland and their root, to remind them of the trans-atlantic slave trade era where their ancestors were sold as slaves by the Europeans through Bonny Island, Calabar, Akassa and Badagry ports and to resurrect the reading habit of youths, especially now that Port Hacourt has been designated as the World Book Capital for 2014.

    On the activities of the CEPTAC, Amachree said: “The NGO has produced three books since its inception. He said the NGO organized the first cultural carnival in Abuja; the second River State Cultural carnival tagged RIVCAM’92 in Port Harcourt. In addition, it has also organized on peace and tourism.”

    He called on students to develop their skills for them to contribute to nation-building, especially in the area of tourism, since tourism is the largest employer of labour in the world.

    Amachree used the opportunity to call of different tiers of government and other organizations to introduce holiday packages for their workers as this will help in creating greater awareness on tourism and its importance.

    He congratulated the university’s vice-chancellor for being the first female vice- chancellor in River State.

    In her response, Professor Osahogulu thanked the CEPTAC for the kind gesture. He said that on her assumption of office, students’ reading habit was at a low ebb. She said she organized several academic activities to change the trend. She thanked Chief Amachree for the kind gesture, noting that the books would further enhance the reading culture among students.

    Also speaking on the occasion, Professor Emeritus Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa of the University of Port Harcourt, said the CEPTAC will continue to contribute to the  development of cultural heritage of the Niger Delta.

  • Philanthropist donates to varsity

    Philanthropist donates to varsity

    As in some other universities, students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna had been grappling with the problem of lack of infrastructural facilities that would make teaching and learning less burdensome. Some of the facilities they lack included hostel accommodation, adequate administrative blocks and lecture rooms. Of all, the latter seemed more important to them.

    Gleefully, they had cause to smile as this most important infrastructural need in the institution was addressed by Caverton Offshore Support Group that donated a 500-capacity lecture theatre to the institution.

    Apart from the lecture theatre donated, the organisation also offered automatic employment to the best graduating student of the Department of Engineering who made first-class or second-class (Upper Division).

    The lecture theatre was part of the promises made by the Chairman of the company, Chief Adeyemi Makanjuola who was conferred with the institution’s honorary Doctorate degree.

    The donation of the lecture theatre was a great relief to both students and lecturers. This is because, before the ultra-modern lecture theatre was donated, students cramped in small lecture halls, while halls of residence are not only overcrowded but in also horrible state.

    In some institutions, lectures are conducted in sports complexes or convocation arena; a development that repulsively hindered atmosphere conducive to teaching, learning and research works.

    As a result of this, calls for collaborative effort between the government and the private sector had severally been made in order to ensure that the institutions are not only well-funded, but also churn out quality graduates.

    Chief Makanjuola said the gesture was part of his organisation’s collaborative efforts with the institution towards attaining a height that meets international standard.

    He said his organisation appreciated the need to invest in the infrastructural requirement of the institution which is one of the reasons that led to the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

    He said: “Our collaboration with this great institution will not end with just handing over this building.  We are open to offering Internship (IT) positions to deserving students of your institution. Your Engineering programmes have been adjudged as the best by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) with full accreditation status.

    “Caverton, therefore, would encourage your Engineering students who finish at the top of their class, graduating with first and second-class Upper degrees, to seek employment with us.”

    Successive administrations at the 31-year-old institution have assiduously worked towards reversing the infrastructure deficiency and invested massively in physical development of the two campuses of the university.

    At an elaborate ceremony, Chief Makanjuola handed over keys of the N55 million lectures theatre to the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Musibau Akanji. While handing over the keys to him, Makanjuola called on other companies and prominent individuals to collaborate with secondary and tertiary institutions in the country in order to improve the lot of the country’s youths. He noted that the ability of the country to compete favourably in the comity of nations depends solely on how skilled the youth are.

    According to him, the 500-seater hall will help to address the problem of congestion and inadequate lecture halls in the institution, adding that his organisation strongly believes that Nigerians can compete with the best in the world if given the opportunity. This, he said, informed the donation of the lectures theatre as part of their corporate social responsibilities to the institution.

    “Beyond giving back to the society, it is also in the interest of corporate organisations to invest in national capacity development as this expands the pool of skilled manpower they can draw from to further their corporate interests.

    “We hope that the university, being a specialised institution, will encourage students in the School of Engineering to enroll for training at the school of aviation so that they will become the new breed of Caverton Helicopters Pilots and Engineers that will sustain the professional culture of the company as well as raising the bar in the field.

    “We are proud to be collaborating with this great institution to enhance quality of education in the university and in Nigeria as a whole.” He added that the company has, in the last three years, trained its local pilots and engineers on both rotor and fixed wing aircraft while the training programme continues every year as part of capacity development of Nigerians.

    Responding, Prof. Akanji expressed his appreciation to the company for coming to the aid of the university, maintaining that the 500-seater lectures theatre would be of tremendous help to the institution.

    He called on other Nigerians to emulate Makanjuola’s gesture in providing atmosphere conducive to teaching and learning, adding that the institution is in dire need of boarding facilities for the students.

    He lamented the sorry state of accommodation facilities in the institution, stressing that out of 17, 000 students, the university could provide only 20 per cent of the required accommodation for students.

    For the students, the Caverton lecture theatre hall could not have come at a better time as most of the lecture theatres could not accommodate the increasing number of students that are admitted yearly.

    Abu Sadiq, a 400-level Chemical Engineering student, said the 500-seater lecture hall is a plus to the institution and would be very useful to the students.

    He said: “We would like other philanthropists to come and invest in the school. The Federal Government cannot provide all we need.”

    Another student, Habibu Nasiru said it was a nice effort which is appreciated by the students. He said: “This is appreciated, especially when he didn’t give it out because of political gains neither did it come with any price tag. Such people are what we want in this country, people who give willingly to the community. “

  • CEPTAC donates tourism books to varsity

    CEPTAC donates tourism books to varsity

    THE Centre for the Promotion of Peace, Tourism, Art and Culture (CEPTAC) has donated tourism and historical books to the Ignatius Ajupu University of Education  ( formerly Rivers State University of Education), Port Harcourt. Among the books donated to the school were: Memories of the Niger Delta Slave Trade Routes and Towards the Culture of Peace in the Niger Delta.

    In his speech while presenting the books to the vice-chancellor of the school, Professor Rosemond Dienye Green Osahogulu, the president of the CEPTAC, Chief Amachree, said the NGO decided to present the books to the school to avail the youths the opportunity to know more the history and culture of their fatherland and their root, to remind them of the trans-atlantic slave trade era where their ancestors were sold as slaves by the Europeans through Bonny Island, Calabar, Akassa and Badagry ports and to resurrect the reading habit of youths, especially now that Port Hacourt has been designated as the World Book Capital for 2014.

    On the activities of the CEPTAC, Amachree said: “The NGO has produced three books since its inception. He said the NGO organized the first cultural carnival in Abuja; the second River State Cultural carnival tagged RIVCAM’92 in Port Harcourt. In addition, it has also organized on peace and tourism.”

    He called on students to develop their skills for them to contribute to nation-building, especially in the area of tourism, since tourism is the largest employer of labour in the world.

    Amachree used the opportunity to call of different tiers of government and other organizations to introduce holiday packages for their workers as this will help in creating greater awareness on tourism and its importance.

    He congratulated the university’s vice-chancellor for being the first female vice- chancellor in River State.

    In her response, Professor Osahogulu thanked the CEPTAC for the kind gesture. He said that on her assumption of office, students’ reading habit was at a low ebb. She said she organized several academic activities to change the trend. She thanked Chief Amachree for the kind gesture, noting that the books would further enhance the reading culture among students.

    Also speaking on the occasion, Professor Emeritus Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa of the University of Port Harcourt, said the CEPTAC will continue to contribute to the  development of cultural heritage of the Niger Delta.

  • Varsity begs union not to go on strike

    The Management of the Kogi State University (KSU), Anyingba, has moved to placate the institution’s chapter of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), which threatened to shut down the campus, following the management’s failure to meet its demand.

    The Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Hassan Isah, said measures were being taken to address the demands of the union to achieve industrial harmony.

    According to him, payment of minimum wage for staff was approved by the state government in December 2011. However, the union demanded that the payment be backdated to January 2011 when it was approved by the Federal Government.

    The VC said management was considering the financial implication of  the 11 months arrears, which he said had been submitted to government. He said Governor Idris Wada has directed the Head of Service to take urgent action on the matter.

    On pension and gratuity, which is one of the union demands, Prof Isah said 45 workers were sacked foor misconduct, noting that their details had been submitted to the government for their pension and gratuity.

    The  VC added that he had written to the government to consider and approve the immediate payment of pension and gratuity to families of deceased workers and retirees. He assured the union that the governor was aware of their plight and making efforts to resolve the matter.

    Isah lamented the non-inclusion of the financial implication in the report submitted by the committee set up to look into the issue of hazard allowance, saying the laxity necessitated the need for another committee to look into the issue. The report of the new committee, he said, will be submitted to the Governing Council at its meeting next Monday.

    From this month, he said, some level of non-teaching staff would benefit from responsibility allowance. Those to benefit include faculty officers, hostel administrators, university’s Health Services Unit personnel, and staff of the Works and Bursary, among others.

    Isah appealed to the union to shelve its planned strike, saying the management was attending to their demand.