The Governing Council of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has fixed the resumption of activities at the university for Friday, September 15, 2017 .
The registrar of the university, Jacob Agboola, said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Lekan Fadeyi.
The university urged students to return to their campuses for commencement of academic activities on Monday, September 18.
The statement read, “The Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has approved resumption of activities on the institution’s campuses with effect from Friday, September 15, 2017.
“Students of the university are expected to return to school on Monday, September 25, 2017, while full academic activities, the details of which the senate will announce, shall commence immediately after the Independence anniversary holiday.
“Council thanked the governors of Oyo and Osun states, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi and Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola respectively, for agreeing to support the university with necessary funds to enable the university to return to its normal work schedule and reinvigorate its latent capacities for accelerated and sustainable growth and development.
“Council also appreciated all stakeholders for their understanding and support.
“Council further appealed to students, staff, parents as well as the general public to demonstrate greater faith and dedication to the well-being of the institution, as better days lie ahead of it.
“Concerted efforts should, therefore, be geared towards ensuring that nothing is allowed to disrupt the normal work of the university again.”
It will be recalled that the university has been embroiled in perennial crisis, while various workers’ unions had embarked on indefinite strikes to press home demands for payment of about 10-month salary arrears.
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Sunday, 10 September 2017
DISMISSAL OF DRs OYEWUNMI, SUENU AND 13 OTHER LASU LECTURERS - A BOLD STEP FOR NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES TO EMULATE.
It is widely believed that progress and development are impossible without change. More importantly, these changes are direly needed when a system has been held back by a few mischievous fellows renowned for their illegalities.
For the uninitiated, members of the Lagos State University Community and the world at large, on Friday,8th of September, 2017 woke up to the news of the dismissal of fifteen lecturers from the Lagos State University. Noticeable among these lecturers is Dr Oyewunmi ; "ASUU chair" and Dr Suenu Adebowale ; "ASUU Vice Chair".
The established allegations against these two did not come up overnight. It is a snowball of illegalities, malpractices and grievous offences that draw back to years before now.
For Oyewunmi, his intolerable crime draws back to 2013 when he held students to ransome as a staff in the LASU external system. Oyewunmi was revered for his track records of mindblowing extortion of money from students, all under the guise of helping them to graduate.
Evil can not last forever, if at all it fortunately survives too long. Oyewunmi eventually bit more than he could chew when he told the students involved at the LASU external system that they should each contribute a sum of #50,000 if they want him to "process their results which has been swept away by rain".
This will go on to hunt him later, more shamefully as an ASUU - Chairman.
For Suenu Adebowale Adeyemi, it was a time bomb that was bound to explode. Adeyemi Suenu until his dismissal was the Acting Head of Department, History and International Studies as well as the Vice Chairman of ASUU - LASU. Suenu was established to have altered the results of several students as Head of Department.
Many of these students had already been withdrawn by the university senate. Suenu threw caution and morality to the dogs when he abused his privilege as a H.O.D by using his "window on LASU student results website" to carry out shocking alterations that illegally upgraded students that on normal grounds have no business in the university.
More shockingly, extra year students were turned overnight graduates by this same "ASUU - VICE CHAIR" when he singlehandedly upgraded and cleared the results of these straggling students. One would ask : IS THE DISMISSED ASUU VICE CHAIRMAN running a parallel university senate?
Unsurprisingly, many LASU students have taken to the social media to applaud the university authorities while urging them to prosecute other bad eggs in the system.
Their message shows frustration and relief. Their hardwork must start paying off. "Enough of illegalities, how will we read and one H.O.D because he is the vice chairman of ASUU upgrade other people's results because they paid him to do so?
They should throw out the remaining ones", wrote a student on the social media.
In all of these, ASUU is not culpable. It is just unfortunate for ASUU that serial opportunists, blackmailers, evil geniuses and psedo-comrades led this great union for just too long.
This explains why the now dismissed self glorified warlords tried(albeit in futility) to use the union as a tool to blackmail the university Vice Chancellor - Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun towards dropping the heavy charges against them.
In different press statements, ASUU had thrown up several concocted and exaggerated claims against the vice chancellor. In search of anything to use against the VC, they brought up the issue of single term tenure for other principal officers which is obviously beyond the powers of a vice chancellor but Oyewunmi and his ASUU-LASU's desperation to drag the LASU VC to the mud only lightened up their(ASUU-LASU) infamy and ignonimy.
They attempted to wrestle down the VC alongside some other targetted fellows. But as nature would always have it, the truth will always defeat falsehood - even if it suffers blackmail for a while.
ASUU is a great union that has contributed immensely to the growth of education in Nigeria and its sacredness should no longer be raped by desperadoes who use it as a smokescreen to perpetrate various illegalities and evil.
On this note, true and principled comrades should rescue the union from the claws of evil and set it on course for progressive unionism.
Above all, this is a victory for LASU and those who have strived for its progress. Academic staff like Bola Ademeso(another dismissed Lecturer) should be occupied with groundbreaking research and not sexual harassments of female students, extortion of money from male students and ultimately : illegal alterations of student results.
Non-academic staff don't enjoy many of the privileges their academic counterpart enjoy. Yet, many of these PhD holders still get students to bed instead of to the zenith of their career.
To all members of the Lagos State University Alumni body (both old and young), we must realise that to have a university we desire and to return LASU to her glory time, it is not a management affairs alone.
We must join hands with Professor fagbohun led adminstration and other well meaning people to rejuvenate out alma mata and take it to the very top where it belongs.
To the university management led by Professor Fagbohun,let there continue to be fairness and justice in all the operations and dealings of the university.
The peace in the university is enjoyable and it is in the interest of all that it continues this way. The university authorities must remain focused and committed to due process, transparency, inclusion and all members of LASU community will have more reasons to be happy.
For the uninitiated, members of the Lagos State University Community and the world at large, on Friday,8th of September, 2017 woke up to the news of the dismissal of fifteen lecturers from the Lagos State University. Noticeable among these lecturers is Dr Oyewunmi ; "ASUU chair" and Dr Suenu Adebowale ; "ASUU Vice Chair".
The established allegations against these two did not come up overnight. It is a snowball of illegalities, malpractices and grievous offences that draw back to years before now.
For Oyewunmi, his intolerable crime draws back to 2013 when he held students to ransome as a staff in the LASU external system. Oyewunmi was revered for his track records of mindblowing extortion of money from students, all under the guise of helping them to graduate.
Evil can not last forever, if at all it fortunately survives too long. Oyewunmi eventually bit more than he could chew when he told the students involved at the LASU external system that they should each contribute a sum of #50,000 if they want him to "process their results which has been swept away by rain".
This will go on to hunt him later, more shamefully as an ASUU - Chairman.
For Suenu Adebowale Adeyemi, it was a time bomb that was bound to explode. Adeyemi Suenu until his dismissal was the Acting Head of Department, History and International Studies as well as the Vice Chairman of ASUU - LASU. Suenu was established to have altered the results of several students as Head of Department.
Many of these students had already been withdrawn by the university senate. Suenu threw caution and morality to the dogs when he abused his privilege as a H.O.D by using his "window on LASU student results website" to carry out shocking alterations that illegally upgraded students that on normal grounds have no business in the university.
More shockingly, extra year students were turned overnight graduates by this same "ASUU - VICE CHAIR" when he singlehandedly upgraded and cleared the results of these straggling students. One would ask : IS THE DISMISSED ASUU VICE CHAIRMAN running a parallel university senate?
Unsurprisingly, many LASU students have taken to the social media to applaud the university authorities while urging them to prosecute other bad eggs in the system.
Their message shows frustration and relief. Their hardwork must start paying off. "Enough of illegalities, how will we read and one H.O.D because he is the vice chairman of ASUU upgrade other people's results because they paid him to do so?
They should throw out the remaining ones", wrote a student on the social media.
In all of these, ASUU is not culpable. It is just unfortunate for ASUU that serial opportunists, blackmailers, evil geniuses and psedo-comrades led this great union for just too long.
This explains why the now dismissed self glorified warlords tried(albeit in futility) to use the union as a tool to blackmail the university Vice Chancellor - Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun towards dropping the heavy charges against them.
In different press statements, ASUU had thrown up several concocted and exaggerated claims against the vice chancellor. In search of anything to use against the VC, they brought up the issue of single term tenure for other principal officers which is obviously beyond the powers of a vice chancellor but Oyewunmi and his ASUU-LASU's desperation to drag the LASU VC to the mud only lightened up their(ASUU-LASU) infamy and ignonimy.
They attempted to wrestle down the VC alongside some other targetted fellows. But as nature would always have it, the truth will always defeat falsehood - even if it suffers blackmail for a while.
ASUU is a great union that has contributed immensely to the growth of education in Nigeria and its sacredness should no longer be raped by desperadoes who use it as a smokescreen to perpetrate various illegalities and evil.
On this note, true and principled comrades should rescue the union from the claws of evil and set it on course for progressive unionism.
Above all, this is a victory for LASU and those who have strived for its progress. Academic staff like Bola Ademeso(another dismissed Lecturer) should be occupied with groundbreaking research and not sexual harassments of female students, extortion of money from male students and ultimately : illegal alterations of student results.
Non-academic staff don't enjoy many of the privileges their academic counterpart enjoy. Yet, many of these PhD holders still get students to bed instead of to the zenith of their career.
To all members of the Lagos State University Alumni body (both old and young), we must realise that to have a university we desire and to return LASU to her glory time, it is not a management affairs alone.
We must join hands with Professor fagbohun led adminstration and other well meaning people to rejuvenate out alma mata and take it to the very top where it belongs.
To the university management led by Professor Fagbohun,let there continue to be fairness and justice in all the operations and dealings of the university.
The peace in the university is enjoyable and it is in the interest of all that it continues this way. The university authorities must remain focused and committed to due process, transparency, inclusion and all members of LASU community will have more reasons to be happy.
Saturday, 2 September 2017
The LAUTECH Crisis; Setting the records straight
A Rebuttal by
Prof. Akinbode A. Adedeji
I am shocked that Tribune has become a political trumpet that will allow its platform to be used to support politics that toys with the future of thousands of students and livelihood of thousands of Lautech staff who have been without salary for 11 months now.
I called this the height of wickedness that no one in South Western Nigeria has seen before - not even the ASUU-Abacha 9 months' strike of 1996 degenerates to this level.
Awolowo, who founded Tribune will be turning in his grave that his legacy could accommodate such a poorly written and baseless article that is on weak facts.
Akeem Adebiyi, the author of this piece spent most of the time attacking a nameless politician and then concluded by blaming the past and present management of Lautech for not making the University solvent and self-sustaining.
I think Akeem needs to advise the governors of Oyo and Osun on the issue of self-sustaining before asking the management of a state university that supposed to provide subsidized education to create an opportunity for our wards.
I watched these heartless governors raise their hands in the air on state TV, claiming they could not pay salary in their respective states because Federal subvention had reduced, this was between 2014 - 2016.
The question I asked both governors was that did the people of Oyo and Osun elect them to wait for free money from Abuja, or they elected them to turn Osun and Oyo’s desert into a land flowing with milk and honey without Federal subvention.
If all governors do is to wait for free money, “who cannot spend free money then” – we all can and would contest for offices.
Governors were not elected in 2014, 2015 to spend free money, they were elected to make their states solvent, independent of Federal cake.
At least we know of states in Nigeria who could sustain themselves without a dime from the Federal government.
Aregbe and Ajimobi are asking Lautech management to do what they have not demonstrated with access to billions of naira every month – shame on them.
Akeem, if you know the inner working of Lautech, you will not mention that Lautech management has failed to manage its resources well.
I challenge you to provide Nigerians and the people of Oyo-Osun with evidence that there is a state university in Nigeria that is charging the type of tuition Lautech is charging that has been able to sustain itself without government support – mention one state or federal university.
Osun state university that Aregbe claims is self-sustain operates like a private university, and the size is incomparable to Lautech.
I am so sure Aregbe is not telling all the truth about the support the university gets from the state. If we consider Lautech, with salary and pension wage bill of about N300 million a month.
The money that accrues from student tuition in a year is about N2.1 billion (at N70,000 per student with a population of 30,000).
This can only pay 7 months’ salary, without anything remaining to run the school (purchase office & lab materials, maintain University vehicle, purchase petrol to run the generators – among many re-current expenditures).
Even, if Lautech generates up to N1 billion from university ventures like the bakery, press, guest house, etc. This money is not sufficient to run a university of Lautech’s magnitude.
Is there corruption within Lautech management, maybe yes; of what proportion, maybe minimal, else the university would not self-sustain itself for months when Osun state first failed in its responsibility toward the school.
Nobody said the owners should not curb mismanagement at Lautech, do they have to do it on the life and future of over 30,000 Lautech students? Would we say because bathing water is dirty we will throw the baby away with the water?
Aregbe and Ajimobi have so far thrown away the baby with the dirty water at Lautech, and the retrogression and lives lost as a result of this type of wickedness can never be recovered.
If they truly want to sanitize the financial management at Lautech, they need to ensure the school resumes by paying few months’ salary of the staff who have been living in penury since this problem started, institute a panel that will find a lasting solution to the funding problem at Lautech.
The dual ownership had been a blessing until Ajimobi and Aregbe became the governor of both states. There is no public institution anywhere in the world that can sustain itself on the tuition of students or IGR, except it charges a high fee, which makes it a private enterprise.
Lautech is supposed to subsidize higher education for the people of Oyo and Osun. I work in a public institution in the US, the resources to sustain all public and private institutions come partly from the government.
Private institutions in the US like Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc, all enjoy the support of US Federal government (and state) through competitive research grant money, even more than some public institutions because they are more competitive than public universities in grant application.
Public, as well as private institutions enjoy tremendous support from the private sector and alumni association through scholarships and endowment fund in the West.
That is why #FundLautech effort being championed by Bayo Adeyinka and some other Lautech alumni should be encouraged beyond this current situation.
Curbing corruption and wasteful spending of the public fund should not be restricted to Lautech, it should be extended to every arm of governance especially at the state and local government levels, where we see the most corruption under the current Federal administration.
We all know because of lack of oversight at the state level, the corruption going on is unprecedented. I challenge Aregbe and Ajimobi to open their state account books to independent auditors to help them plug places where the states are being bled by corrupt politicians and government officials.
This will allow the state to spend more money on education, agricultural production, and food processing. The best and most fertile land to invest in is the human mind – our people need qualitative and undiluted education, the type that Lautech has been dishing out for more than 2 decades now.
What these governors refused to acknowledge is that Lautech was once the best university in Nigeria. Its graduates are doing wonders all over the nation and around the world.
The institution that created people like me is being destroyed before our very eyes. A lot of Lautech talented professors have left to other institutions, many will never return because of fear of future instability.
How can any leader justify this type of handling of Lautech issue? Ajimobi was imploring the hungry Lautech staff to return to work on an empty stomach as if they are the reason for the problem of the institution.
Ajimobi and Aregbe ran as progressive policy and ideology, they claim to be on a progressive platform (APC). The question they should ask themselves with a claim of being an Awoite is – “what will Awolowo or Bola Ige do in this type of situation”.
I can boldly say that neither Bola Ige nor Awolowo will watch while thousands of children’s life wastes at home for 11 months.
I heard Lautech has not completed a session since 2015, many of its graduates who wanted to go to postgraduate schools, home and abroad, have not been able to do so because they could not obtain their transcripts, especially the later – many Lautech alumni have lost juicy scholarship opportunity because they could not produce original transcript.
I cannot count how many of my former colleagues at Lautech who have I had to send money to when their plea of “e ma je ki ebi oh pa wa ku” (please do not let us die of hunger) filled my hears. Oba to je l’ana ti won se daadaa, ilu o ni gbagbe won, ati eyi tio se daadaa naa; gbogbo won ni o wa ninu iwe aigbagbe, boya fun rere tabi fun biburu (the king who ruled with empathy and fairness today will not be forgotten nor will posterity forget those who ruled with iron fist).
Aregbe and Ajimobi have by their own hands written their legacy on the issue of Lautech, and we will not forget of the evil they did – generations in Oyo and Osun will not forget this evil era of lack of leadership by these two governors.
Their children go to school in Cuba, UK and America, and the children of Oyo and Osun people that helped them actualize their political career are wasting away.
Akeem Adebiyi, Lautech’s situation transcends this weak write-up you wrote. I wrote a rebuttal as someone with inside knowledge of Lautech’s operation, having worked there for more than 13 years and having graduated as one of Lautech’s first set.
I am a proud Ladokite and I have written this rebuttal to your article from my heart, not for political gain but because the truth must be told and our people must be rightly educated on this subject.
Your article has done dis-service to the current problem at Lautech, and it completely omitted common facts deliberately.
Lautech’s issue can only be solved when the two owner states pay some salary arrears, commit to future support of the institution, reorganize the financial management of the school without transferring the burden to the poor parents who may lose access to the school if tuition is increased beyond what they could afford, fire or prosecute anybody found guilty of financial misappropriation (old or current), embrace the alumni association and corner the private sector for support.
Prof. Akinbode A. Adedeji
I am shocked that Tribune has become a political trumpet that will allow its platform to be used to support politics that toys with the future of thousands of students and livelihood of thousands of Lautech staff who have been without salary for 11 months now.
I called this the height of wickedness that no one in South Western Nigeria has seen before - not even the ASUU-Abacha 9 months' strike of 1996 degenerates to this level.
Awolowo, who founded Tribune will be turning in his grave that his legacy could accommodate such a poorly written and baseless article that is on weak facts.
Akeem Adebiyi, the author of this piece spent most of the time attacking a nameless politician and then concluded by blaming the past and present management of Lautech for not making the University solvent and self-sustaining.
I think Akeem needs to advise the governors of Oyo and Osun on the issue of self-sustaining before asking the management of a state university that supposed to provide subsidized education to create an opportunity for our wards.
I watched these heartless governors raise their hands in the air on state TV, claiming they could not pay salary in their respective states because Federal subvention had reduced, this was between 2014 - 2016.
The question I asked both governors was that did the people of Oyo and Osun elect them to wait for free money from Abuja, or they elected them to turn Osun and Oyo’s desert into a land flowing with milk and honey without Federal subvention.
If all governors do is to wait for free money, “who cannot spend free money then” – we all can and would contest for offices.
Governors were not elected in 2014, 2015 to spend free money, they were elected to make their states solvent, independent of Federal cake.
At least we know of states in Nigeria who could sustain themselves without a dime from the Federal government.
Aregbe and Ajimobi are asking Lautech management to do what they have not demonstrated with access to billions of naira every month – shame on them.
Akeem, if you know the inner working of Lautech, you will not mention that Lautech management has failed to manage its resources well.
I challenge you to provide Nigerians and the people of Oyo-Osun with evidence that there is a state university in Nigeria that is charging the type of tuition Lautech is charging that has been able to sustain itself without government support – mention one state or federal university.
Osun state university that Aregbe claims is self-sustain operates like a private university, and the size is incomparable to Lautech.
I am so sure Aregbe is not telling all the truth about the support the university gets from the state. If we consider Lautech, with salary and pension wage bill of about N300 million a month.
The money that accrues from student tuition in a year is about N2.1 billion (at N70,000 per student with a population of 30,000).
This can only pay 7 months’ salary, without anything remaining to run the school (purchase office & lab materials, maintain University vehicle, purchase petrol to run the generators – among many re-current expenditures).
Even, if Lautech generates up to N1 billion from university ventures like the bakery, press, guest house, etc. This money is not sufficient to run a university of Lautech’s magnitude.
Is there corruption within Lautech management, maybe yes; of what proportion, maybe minimal, else the university would not self-sustain itself for months when Osun state first failed in its responsibility toward the school.
Nobody said the owners should not curb mismanagement at Lautech, do they have to do it on the life and future of over 30,000 Lautech students? Would we say because bathing water is dirty we will throw the baby away with the water?
Aregbe and Ajimobi have so far thrown away the baby with the dirty water at Lautech, and the retrogression and lives lost as a result of this type of wickedness can never be recovered.
If they truly want to sanitize the financial management at Lautech, they need to ensure the school resumes by paying few months’ salary of the staff who have been living in penury since this problem started, institute a panel that will find a lasting solution to the funding problem at Lautech.
The dual ownership had been a blessing until Ajimobi and Aregbe became the governor of both states. There is no public institution anywhere in the world that can sustain itself on the tuition of students or IGR, except it charges a high fee, which makes it a private enterprise.
Lautech is supposed to subsidize higher education for the people of Oyo and Osun. I work in a public institution in the US, the resources to sustain all public and private institutions come partly from the government.
Private institutions in the US like Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc, all enjoy the support of US Federal government (and state) through competitive research grant money, even more than some public institutions because they are more competitive than public universities in grant application.
Public, as well as private institutions enjoy tremendous support from the private sector and alumni association through scholarships and endowment fund in the West.
That is why #FundLautech effort being championed by Bayo Adeyinka and some other Lautech alumni should be encouraged beyond this current situation.
Curbing corruption and wasteful spending of the public fund should not be restricted to Lautech, it should be extended to every arm of governance especially at the state and local government levels, where we see the most corruption under the current Federal administration.
We all know because of lack of oversight at the state level, the corruption going on is unprecedented. I challenge Aregbe and Ajimobi to open their state account books to independent auditors to help them plug places where the states are being bled by corrupt politicians and government officials.
This will allow the state to spend more money on education, agricultural production, and food processing. The best and most fertile land to invest in is the human mind – our people need qualitative and undiluted education, the type that Lautech has been dishing out for more than 2 decades now.
What these governors refused to acknowledge is that Lautech was once the best university in Nigeria. Its graduates are doing wonders all over the nation and around the world.
The institution that created people like me is being destroyed before our very eyes. A lot of Lautech talented professors have left to other institutions, many will never return because of fear of future instability.
How can any leader justify this type of handling of Lautech issue? Ajimobi was imploring the hungry Lautech staff to return to work on an empty stomach as if they are the reason for the problem of the institution.
Ajimobi and Aregbe ran as progressive policy and ideology, they claim to be on a progressive platform (APC). The question they should ask themselves with a claim of being an Awoite is – “what will Awolowo or Bola Ige do in this type of situation”.
I can boldly say that neither Bola Ige nor Awolowo will watch while thousands of children’s life wastes at home for 11 months.
I heard Lautech has not completed a session since 2015, many of its graduates who wanted to go to postgraduate schools, home and abroad, have not been able to do so because they could not obtain their transcripts, especially the later – many Lautech alumni have lost juicy scholarship opportunity because they could not produce original transcript.
I cannot count how many of my former colleagues at Lautech who have I had to send money to when their plea of “e ma je ki ebi oh pa wa ku” (please do not let us die of hunger) filled my hears. Oba to je l’ana ti won se daadaa, ilu o ni gbagbe won, ati eyi tio se daadaa naa; gbogbo won ni o wa ninu iwe aigbagbe, boya fun rere tabi fun biburu (the king who ruled with empathy and fairness today will not be forgotten nor will posterity forget those who ruled with iron fist).
Aregbe and Ajimobi have by their own hands written their legacy on the issue of Lautech, and we will not forget of the evil they did – generations in Oyo and Osun will not forget this evil era of lack of leadership by these two governors.
Their children go to school in Cuba, UK and America, and the children of Oyo and Osun people that helped them actualize their political career are wasting away.
Akeem Adebiyi, Lautech’s situation transcends this weak write-up you wrote. I wrote a rebuttal as someone with inside knowledge of Lautech’s operation, having worked there for more than 13 years and having graduated as one of Lautech’s first set.
I am a proud Ladokite and I have written this rebuttal to your article from my heart, not for political gain but because the truth must be told and our people must be rightly educated on this subject.
Your article has done dis-service to the current problem at Lautech, and it completely omitted common facts deliberately.
Lautech’s issue can only be solved when the two owner states pay some salary arrears, commit to future support of the institution, reorganize the financial management of the school without transferring the burden to the poor parents who may lose access to the school if tuition is increased beyond what they could afford, fire or prosecute anybody found guilty of financial misappropriation (old or current), embrace the alumni association and corner the private sector for support.
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
BREAKING: Evans Pleads Guilty To Kidnap Charges
Suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, otherwise known as Evans has pleaded guilty to the charge of kidnapping.
This follows his arraignment today at the High Court in Lagos by the state government.
This follows his arraignment today at the High Court in Lagos by the state government.
The Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned judgment over the N300m Fundamental Rights Enforcement Suit brought by a suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, against the Nigerian Police Force.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Abdulaziz Anka adjourned the case to September 5, 2017, at the instance of the Commissioner of Police Legal, David Igbodo who turned up in court with an application claiming that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Nigerian Police Force had not been party to the proceedings and the court could not go ahead with judgment without hearing from both parties.
Mr Igbodo also told the court that the counsel to Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje had failed to serve the court documents personally on the two respondents who were based in Abuja.
He also claimed that one Henry Obaze who represented both respondents in court at the last date had no authorization to do so.
This was after dismissing all the objections to the hearing of the suit.
After the ruling, the court heard the application proper and fixed the judgment date.
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
BREAKING: ASUU Shuns Meeting With FG
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has refused to attend a meeting with the Federal Government scheduled for today.
ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed to Channels Television that the union will not attend the meeting.
According to him, ASUU has met, discussed the new offer from the FG and submitted a proposal to the government.
He said consequently, the union will only honour another meeting after receiving a reply to their proposal from the government.
More details soon.
Monday, 28 August 2017
32 BEADED KINGS, 32 QUESTIONS - Arasi Kolapo
Ibadan the land of warriors, I hail thee, the third largest city in Africa and the capital city of old and present Oyo State, in the majesty of the almighty he created Ibadan with good terrain, flourishing pasture, and other beautiful elements of nature making her exceptionally outstanding in the league of cities.
The people of Ibadan are wonderful in their creation and culture, their excellence at businesses, their love for education, political mastery and intellectual dynamism, unprecedented spirit of accommodation and socialisation, avid support for sport and highly devoted respect for their constituted traditional institute of authority.
Ibadan has gone through a lot of developmental metamorphosis from the days when it used to be military garrison, to the days when each generals and warlords carved territory for themselves at strategic places each been the paramount ruler of his territory.
There was once a time when all territory became unified under one leader, there was a time when Ibadan was ruled by Baales until we started having kings.The regulation law for the exalted throne of Olubadan is 1959 Olubadan Cheiftancy declaration which has been reviewed four times in 1974, 1981, 1993 and 2000.
It appears the review is not a novel idea, then why the fuss over this recent review?
In the seemingly perfect presentations of past reviews, none created new kings and that is the reason for the fuss.
The traditional institute of Ibadan has received great admiration for her uncontroversial system of attaining kingship, and ever no town or city have been so lucky to be founded by the "Ose Meji" ifa corpus prescribed for Lagelu (Oro Apata Maja) when he was leaving Ife Kingdom.
Two distinctive quality that has been the pride of we Ibadan indigenes for generations.
"Heritages are meant to be preserved not destroyed" If you agree with this saying, then blame not the numerous Ibadan indigenes of different social class and calibre who were opposed to this new review.
It shows we are conscious of our history and heritage, and we would have to convinced beyond doubts that a change to the history and heritage we hold with high esteem is by all means necessary.
When a change would occur to the Ibadan kingship system that has been the envy of others, it is normal that the citizens would react as the number one thing we are most afraid of is Change.
Civil disorder they say is the disease of Ibadan, but no civil disorder has occurred so far on the newly installed kings, although in this technology age media disorder can't be totally contained.
This piece is not meant to add to the already existing media disorder but the curiosity in my mind strokes my pen on paper.
Looking critically into all reasons citied by the Governor for conquering the fear of change in installing these new Obas and making a great change to the 1959 Olubadan chieftaincy declaration, I believe he deserves a locomotive applause and the best oratory praise.
At the juncture where I have exhausted my fathom pill about the 32 new beaded and crown wearing kings, I ask the following questions.
1) How will having more than one king help Ibadan's quest for development?
2) What does the number of kings in a town or city has to do with state creation?
3) What good does entourage of kings following Olubadan to functions do Ibadan?
4) How does semantics elevate a throne?
5) What is the historical basis for the new kings?
6) What happens to Olubadan in council?
7) Are they just ceremonial Kings or Kings with the authority of a king?
8) What is the class rating of these Obas?
9) Why won't a king have total dominion over his territory?
10) Who would be the chiefs of these kings?
11) What happens to the statutory power of Olubadan to uninstall a chief?
12) Why is that there was no traditional rites for these kings?
13) What was the yardstick that qualified some Baales as king?
14) Who install Baales in these new kingdoms, Olubadan or the new kings?
15) The king collects a certain percentage of the allocation that comes to the local government under his territory, what would happen to that arrangement?
16) What is in it to gain for the peculiar masses of Ibadan?
17) How sincere is this action?.......
"Ipaja once claimed he had more than one wife, people exclaimed Haa!. They asked him to name them. He said Yanibo, the people replied that's one. He said until it can be proved Yanibo is not my wife, then would I name the others"
In lieu of these let the remaining 15 questions be kept until there are convincing answers to the 17 asked.
"The head of a baby can take a knock, but what happens after the knock is what can't be predicted".
Let the new kings enjoy their title while we patiently observe as events unfold.
May the labours of our great ancestors never be in vain, Ibadan is great and would be great forever.
"If Olubadan wears shorts, we know the class he belongs"
God bless Oduduwa Republic!!!
God bless Ibadan!!!
Long live Olubadan!!!
Arasi Senior Kolapo
The people of Ibadan are wonderful in their creation and culture, their excellence at businesses, their love for education, political mastery and intellectual dynamism, unprecedented spirit of accommodation and socialisation, avid support for sport and highly devoted respect for their constituted traditional institute of authority.
Ibadan has gone through a lot of developmental metamorphosis from the days when it used to be military garrison, to the days when each generals and warlords carved territory for themselves at strategic places each been the paramount ruler of his territory.
There was once a time when all territory became unified under one leader, there was a time when Ibadan was ruled by Baales until we started having kings.The regulation law for the exalted throne of Olubadan is 1959 Olubadan Cheiftancy declaration which has been reviewed four times in 1974, 1981, 1993 and 2000.
It appears the review is not a novel idea, then why the fuss over this recent review?
In the seemingly perfect presentations of past reviews, none created new kings and that is the reason for the fuss.
The traditional institute of Ibadan has received great admiration for her uncontroversial system of attaining kingship, and ever no town or city have been so lucky to be founded by the "Ose Meji" ifa corpus prescribed for Lagelu (Oro Apata Maja) when he was leaving Ife Kingdom.
Two distinctive quality that has been the pride of we Ibadan indigenes for generations.
"Heritages are meant to be preserved not destroyed" If you agree with this saying, then blame not the numerous Ibadan indigenes of different social class and calibre who were opposed to this new review.
It shows we are conscious of our history and heritage, and we would have to convinced beyond doubts that a change to the history and heritage we hold with high esteem is by all means necessary.
When a change would occur to the Ibadan kingship system that has been the envy of others, it is normal that the citizens would react as the number one thing we are most afraid of is Change.
Civil disorder they say is the disease of Ibadan, but no civil disorder has occurred so far on the newly installed kings, although in this technology age media disorder can't be totally contained.
This piece is not meant to add to the already existing media disorder but the curiosity in my mind strokes my pen on paper.
Looking critically into all reasons citied by the Governor for conquering the fear of change in installing these new Obas and making a great change to the 1959 Olubadan chieftaincy declaration, I believe he deserves a locomotive applause and the best oratory praise.
At the juncture where I have exhausted my fathom pill about the 32 new beaded and crown wearing kings, I ask the following questions.
1) How will having more than one king help Ibadan's quest for development?
2) What does the number of kings in a town or city has to do with state creation?
3) What good does entourage of kings following Olubadan to functions do Ibadan?
4) How does semantics elevate a throne?
5) What is the historical basis for the new kings?
6) What happens to Olubadan in council?
7) Are they just ceremonial Kings or Kings with the authority of a king?
8) What is the class rating of these Obas?
9) Why won't a king have total dominion over his territory?
10) Who would be the chiefs of these kings?
11) What happens to the statutory power of Olubadan to uninstall a chief?
12) Why is that there was no traditional rites for these kings?
13) What was the yardstick that qualified some Baales as king?
14) Who install Baales in these new kingdoms, Olubadan or the new kings?
15) The king collects a certain percentage of the allocation that comes to the local government under his territory, what would happen to that arrangement?
16) What is in it to gain for the peculiar masses of Ibadan?
17) How sincere is this action?.......
"Ipaja once claimed he had more than one wife, people exclaimed Haa!. They asked him to name them. He said Yanibo, the people replied that's one. He said until it can be proved Yanibo is not my wife, then would I name the others"
In lieu of these let the remaining 15 questions be kept until there are convincing answers to the 17 asked.
"The head of a baby can take a knock, but what happens after the knock is what can't be predicted".
Let the new kings enjoy their title while we patiently observe as events unfold.
May the labours of our great ancestors never be in vain, Ibadan is great and would be great forever.
"If Olubadan wears shorts, we know the class he belongs"
God bless Oduduwa Republic!!!
God bless Ibadan!!!
Long live Olubadan!!!
Arasi Senior Kolapo
Sunday, 27 August 2017
The Future - Ganiyu Afeez
The future is more fictional than the past and the present. We're presently in the world of globalisation where at the angle 90° of your room, you can capture the microscopic panorama and cyclorama of global scenes.
Presently speaking, the future of the world has been housed upon annihilated and wrecked foundations by the world powers, since the growing pace of nuclear weapons and international belligerency.
Quintessentially, it's easy for the world powers to destroy other continents by launching their intercontinental ballistic missiles and thus the whole world in rumble and crumble.
Apart from this, the future can be prognisticated as being lazy, seeing the youths of nowadays spending almost 20 hours on the internet per day. Hence, whatever the case may be, the future can be better for anyone who seize the opportunities that beneath it.
It is for anyone who can unravel and disentangle the remonstrances and challenges of this present generation, by planning ahead for a better future.
You should be aware that the past has bequeathed the successful ones of today, and this past is transmodifying– meaning, it may not be the same in the future.
The question is, how well prepared are you for the fortunate and unfortunate future?
The answer requires you to extrapolate/understand the world societal structure of today so as to be fit in, meaningfully in any society you find yourself in the future.
Permit me to say that, if you're optimistic that you can build an auspicious, beaming, candescent, dazzling and elaborate future (ABCDE future). Congratulations! But that's not enough than to keep aiming big things, keep taking haculian responsibilities, and keep putting on the shoes of unshakabke determination to solve any challenges that comes your way.
Remember!
You're the best author of your future.
What you nurture shall grow in the future,
Whatever you want generations to write in the future,
Whether good or bad shall tell in the future.
Do something today to better your future
Ganiyu Afeez Ajani
Presently speaking, the future of the world has been housed upon annihilated and wrecked foundations by the world powers, since the growing pace of nuclear weapons and international belligerency.
Quintessentially, it's easy for the world powers to destroy other continents by launching their intercontinental ballistic missiles and thus the whole world in rumble and crumble.
Apart from this, the future can be prognisticated as being lazy, seeing the youths of nowadays spending almost 20 hours on the internet per day. Hence, whatever the case may be, the future can be better for anyone who seize the opportunities that beneath it.
It is for anyone who can unravel and disentangle the remonstrances and challenges of this present generation, by planning ahead for a better future.
You should be aware that the past has bequeathed the successful ones of today, and this past is transmodifying– meaning, it may not be the same in the future.
The question is, how well prepared are you for the fortunate and unfortunate future?
The answer requires you to extrapolate/understand the world societal structure of today so as to be fit in, meaningfully in any society you find yourself in the future.
Permit me to say that, if you're optimistic that you can build an auspicious, beaming, candescent, dazzling and elaborate future (ABCDE future). Congratulations! But that's not enough than to keep aiming big things, keep taking haculian responsibilities, and keep putting on the shoes of unshakabke determination to solve any challenges that comes your way.
Remember!
You're the best author of your future.
What you nurture shall grow in the future,
Whatever you want generations to write in the future,
Whether good or bad shall tell in the future.
Do something today to better your future
Ganiyu Afeez Ajani
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