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Ogun university students to protest school fees hike

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A coalition of students’ organisations under the Save TASUED and Fund Education Coalition (STAFEC) has fixed February 6 to stage a mass protest in Abeokuta, Ogun State, against what they described as the continued neglect of education, and particularly tertiary education subsector in the state.

The organisations comprise Tai Solarin Students’ Union, National Universities Education Students’ Association (NUESA), Alliance of Nigerian Students against Neoliberal Attacks (ANSA), among others.

In a statement issued at the weekend jointly signed by Sanni Ramon, Ewetola AbdulRamon, Sanyaolu Juwon, and Tomi Aina on behalf of Tai Solarin Students’ Union, NUESA, ANSA and Students’ and Youth Activists Support Initiative respectively; the students condemned the fee hike at the Tai Solarin University of Education, and other higher institutions across the state.

The statement reads in part; “The Save TASUED and Fund Education Coalition (STAFEC) wishes to seize this medium to inform the mass of the Nigerian populace its resolve to stage a mass action against the anti-student/anti-poor policies of the Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led Government of Ogun State on the 6th of February 2017.

“The mass action is aimed at showing our displeasure towards the premeditated neglect of public education especially TASUED. We take exception to the illegal and arbitrary tax of N10, 000 imposed on students and we reject in totality, the increment in acceptance fee from N30,000 to N40,000.

“The coalition maintains an outright rejection of the introduction of N25,000 registration fee; we consider it as fraudulent, thoughtless and unacceptable especially at the time the same students and their unpaid parents barely manage to pay the exorbitant N76, 500 school fees, astronomical acceptance fee and many other ridiculous charges.”

The students’ decision to protest came few weeks after a feisty exchange between Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology who were protesting the closure of their school for eight months.

The university has since resume although the striking lecturers have refused to resume work until their demands are met.

In their statement, the student leaders of both Tai Solarin University and Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, said they had not received subvention from the state government for more than 20 months, adding that salaries of workers are not paid in full, leading to poor commitment of staff to work.

“The astronomical school fees of TASUED, the increase in the charges of vocational studies (subsequently and fraudulently disguised as registration fee) from N1000 to N25, 000, the imposition of N20,000 as penalty for late submission of clearance file and the despotic increment of acceptance fee from N30, 000 to N40, 000; are few of the many anti-poor/student policies incited by government unacceptable neglect of the institution,” the statement added.

 

Source: Premium Times

TASUED best graduating student gets University’s automatic employment.

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The authorities of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, have offered automatic employment to the overall best graduating student of the institution.

The immediate appointment for Funmilayo Ogunkomaya was announced at the 8th convocation ceremony of the university on Monday by the Vice-Chancellor, Oluyemisi Obilade.

The best student, who studied Biology, ?received eight categories of awards at the well-attended ceremony.

Addressing the gathering, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Obilade, declared that, the university could not afford to lose the academic and moral qualities of the graduand, hence, the need to have her as an employee of the institution.
“This one is our own, and we have to retain her. She? is a pride of our school, and I must also rejoice with her parents,” Mr. Obilade said.

The VC appealed to all graduands to always ensure they maintain academic and moral qualities acquired? from the universities anywhere they find themselves.

In a related development, the university honoured ?Stella Adadevoh, the heroic Nigerian female doctor who died in 2014 after contracting the Ebola virus from a patient.

Mrs. Adadevoh was the first Nigerian to die of the virus, and her decision to risk her own health and intervene in the case, is believed to have saved more lives.

She was honoured with a post-humous award.

?Similarly, a retired banker, Lawrence Aina, bagged an ?honorary award as Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in Business Education at the university convocation, for his contribution to educational development.

Speaking on behalf of the awardees, Mr. Aina, a former President of Chartered Institute of Bankers, called on citizens not to sit on the fence, and watch the educational system of the country going into extinction.

“And you don’t have to be a politician, governor or President to help your people. There are much more opportunities to serve humanity than being a governor or President. I have private initiative that is reaching out to people. Nigerian citizens should put pressure on political class to perform, the political class have failed us,” Mr. Aina said.

TASUED Doctorate Degree, An honour For My People – Obasanjo

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Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the Doctor of Science Education in Political Science awarded to him by the Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Ijagun, as an honour to all who have worked with him in his entire life.

 

The first University of Education in Nigeria,TASUED, will on Saturday, 28 November, 2015 hold her 10th anniversary and 2015 Convocation ceremonies.

 

Some Nigerians who have distinguished themselves in their various disciplines will be conferred with doctorate degrees on the day in which the former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will be honoured too.

 

Also to be honoured posthumously on that day is the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, the late Chief Mrs Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, wife of the late sage, who died in September and will be buried on Wednesday, 25 November, the day she would have celebrated her centenary birthday.

 

In a letter written to the university’s management, dated 9 November, 2015, and personally signed by the former President himself, he thanked the Senate and Governing Council of the university for the honour.

 

“I received your letter of November 3, 2015, by which you confirmed the decision of the Governing Council and the Senate of Tai Solarin University of Education to confer on me an Honourary Doctorate Degree award of Doctor of Science Education in Political Science at the 10th anniversary of the University on November 28, 2015.

 

“I feel highly honoured by the kind sentiments expressed in your letter and the kind gesture, which I accept with pleasure.

 

“I want to thank the Senate and the University’s Governing Council for the honour done me.

 

“This award is not only to honour me, but, it is also an award for all the great men and women who have worked tirelessly with me in all the undertakings I have had in my life,” the letter read in part.

 

Credit : PM News