Eksu accident tragedy: family members shocked, speechless

Barely 24 hours after the auto accident which claimed the lives of five students of Ekiti State University (EKSU), relations and families of the victims are yet to come to terms with the tragedy.

Many of them who stormed Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) were too grief-stricken to talk to reporters.

They came to identify the bodies of their loved ones at the mortuary while the relations of injured came to be with them at bedside.

Some relations cried profusely on sighting the bodies of the victims they had come to identify.

The accident occurred at about 7.30 pm when the Lexus 320 car crashed into a bus belonging to a nursery and primary school.

The victims who were said to be “yahoo boys” were  said to be coming from a party to celebrate the acquisition of a brand new Range Rover Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) by a member of the gang.

Governor Ayo Fayose declared a 3-day statewide prayers for the repose of the souls of the departed.

The governor explained while on a sympathy visit to EKSUTH that the prayers was also meant to forestall a recurrence of such terrible incidences.

Auchi Polytechnic Release Admission Form

Please All Applicants should be aware that Auchi Polytechnic is 'NOT' conducting any Postume Examination, their Admission process is by Screening Exercise.

AUCHI POLYTECHNIC 2016/2017 Admission Screening Exercise.

This is to inform all Candidates who Chose Auchi Polytechnic for the 2016/2017 Admissions, that the Admission Screening Exercise will be conducted On-line from Monday 11th-15th Friday 2016.

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidate who chose Auchi polytechnic as their choice of Institution and scored 180 and Above in the 2016 UTME are Eligible to participate in the Admission Screening Exercise.

PROCEDURES FOR ONLINE SCREENING APPLICATION-

The Procedure for the 2016/2017 Admission Screening Application is as follows;

(i) Visit Auchi Polytechnic School Portal at
www.auchipoly.edu.ng to initiate the Application Process.

(ii) At the right hand panel, click on "Apply for Online Screening"

(iii) Complete the Application request form that appears and Click on submit.

(iv) Click on Print Remiter invoice when prompted.

(v) Proceed to the designated bank to pay the Application fee of two thousand five hundred Naira(2500)

(vi) After payment return to the school portal at
www.auchipoly.edu.ng

(vii) Sign in as Applicant with with your JAMB Registration number as Username and Password.

(viii) Upload ur passport and Complete the Application as Required..

You will be prompted to Scan and
Upload ur WAEC/NECO/NABTEB Results, Birth Certificate/
Age declaration, Certificate of Local government of Origin.

(ix) Click submit when you are sure all information provided are correct.

(x) Print the Application form and Acknowledgement Slip for ur Reference.

The Authorised Bank for this Exercise are:

(1) United Bank for Africa UBA.
(2) Fidelity Bank PLC.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

(1) candidates are advised to ensure that they personally and not by proxy fill in the correct information, the Polytechnic would not be liable for any enormous information contained in the Completed form.

(2) Each applicant is advised to provide correct and functional e-mal address and telephone number when completing the admission form.

(3) Any falso information you provide in the process of this online screening will invalidate your application.

(4) The passport photograph you upload will remain valid throughout your studies in Auchi Polytechnic if Admitted.

Signed: Dr. Mrs M.I Aashikpelokhai (REGISTRAR)

Form closes on Friday 16th July, 2016

Students of Federal School of Occupational Therapy Protest Over Student Death

Sodiq Oyeleke

Students of Federal School of Occupational Therapy, Oshodi, Lagos yesterday protested the death of their colleague, Dayo Adekeye.

According to our source, Adekeye died last Wednesday in Lagos after falling sick at Federal Psychiatric Hospital,  Abeokuta, where he was posted for training.

The training is part of requirement for his studies.

Dayo Adekeye died on Wednesday

It was learnt that plans to organise the protest started when the school management restricted students from holding a procession in honour of the deceased.

The students accused their school management of not being considerate by posting Adekeye to a distant location despite being a sickle cell patient.

They lamented that the school management also refused to postpone the examination that was supposed to hold yesterday.

According to one of the protester who identified himself as Ajaja said who said the school is expecting them to write exams of 16 different  courses within two weeks when they are not computers. Adding that they treat them as slaves and they are paying N100,000.

In a pamphlet distributed by the students during the protest yesterday, they demanded for adjustment in the school’s posting system.

The suggested that the school bus should be used to convey students to their various posting locations since the ones in Lagos have the same route.

For those going to Abeokuta,  they recommended that the bus should convey them down once with their luggage.

The pamphlet read in part, “We are agitating against the loads of stress that our clinical students face during posting; and which primarily is one of the causes of Dayo Adekeye’s death. May his soul rest in perfect peace; zero welfare, disregard and ill-treatment meted out to our clinical students at their different posting sites.”

They also demanded for the provision of internet facility which will promote learning, awareness and development of students; total reformation of our hostels to avoid further congestion as there will be more influx of students come subsequent years.

Among other demands of the protesting students were provision of standard health facility, functional website, and proper lighting system that would illuminate the school premises and make it secure for students to move within the school’s environs.

When contacted, the principal of the school, Mr. Akin Adeoso, said he could comment because he was driving.

However, a lecturer in the school, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said some of the agitation of the students have been granted.

Adding that the school management have postponed the examination already and gave them opportunity to mourn their colleague.

Ekiti university workers on strike over unpaid salaries

Academic and non-academic activities were paralyzed on Monday at the Ekiti State University, (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, as the workers protested against non-payment of six-month subventions, salary arrears as well as cooperative deductions among others.

The angry staff prevented vehicular
and human movement in and out of the institution as they ensured that all gates to the campus were under lock and key.

Vehicles were parked outside as many of the staff and students roamed about in front of the school gate.

The unions who participated in the protest include the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) National Association of Area Technologists (NAT) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), among others.

According to them, contrary to the government’s view that the institution’s recent investment in some ventures to shore up its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), has made it capable of taking care of paying salary, emoluments, and remuneration, all is not well, as the management has only been able to pay a paltry 20% of the staff’s salary arrears since March this year.

They maintained that the management had failed to live up to its responsibilities due to the failure of the state government to pay subventions since January this year.

Governor Ayodele Fayose had during its convocation last month praised the management of the institution for raising the bar of its IGR to cater for its salaries and allowances, but the protesting workers said the governor might have been misinformed by the school management as they have been receiving 20 percent of their net pay since January this year.

Speaking about the plight of the workers, SSANU chairman, Mr.
Kolapo Olatunde, said: “the last subvention the State Government released the to the university was in December, last year.

Don’t play with fire, admit students through JAMB not post-UTME – FG warns universities

The Federal Ministry of Education on Monday sent a strong-worded statement to Nigerian universities, warning them that only the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) can admit students.

The Director, Press and Public Relations, in the ministry, Mr. Ben Goong, stated that any institution that acted against the directive would have itself to blame.

He denied media reports that the earlier decision to cancel post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was upturned.

The ministry insisted that universities “had no business admitting candidates other than those sent to it by JAMB but could screen candidates to remove those with anti-social traits and suspicious credentials”.

The federal government said while the ban on post-UTME stayed, screening was only for those admitted by JAMB and limited to examination of credentials and physical examination of candidates to ensure that they are not of questionable characters.

“All these should be done upon resumption. No university is allowed to have anything to do with any applicant who is not its student. Screening and registration are only for those who have been admitted by JAMB,” the ministry stressed.

Final year UNILAG undergraduate dies in hostel

Samson Folarin

A 500-level undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Odusami Matthew, has died after slumping at the Biobaku Hostel.

It was learnt that Matthew, a student at the Estate Management Department, was playing football with some of his friends on Friday when he slumped.

He was reportedly rushed to the school’s medical centre where he was confirmed dead on arrival.

Our correspondent was told that the remains of the student had been deposited at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.

 When our correspondent visited the hostel on Monday, one of the residents confirmed that the incident happened around 4pm.

He said, “He stayed in this hostel. Around 4pm, he decided to play football with some of his friends. He was not tackled neither was he with the ball when he collapsed.

“Nobody understood what went wrong with him. He was rushed to the medical centre, but he died on the way. It’s really a shock to us.”

A colleague of the victim, who spoke to our correspondent at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, said Matthew cried that his head was stiff before he died.

“Actually, he had stopped playing. He took time off to rest and sat on the sideline. Suddenly, he started crying that his head was stiff and he could not feel anything again. He slumped shortly after and died,” the colleague, who did not want to be named, said.

A man, who claimed to be Matthew’s close friend, said he spoke with him on Friday, adding that he never had any premonition that he would die suddenly.

 Speaking on condition of anonymity, the friend said, “He was a nice guy. He was also hard working. He had a strong second class upper grade. I still cannot believe he’s gone. I am grieving and don’t want to say more than that.”

 However, the Deputy Registrar and Head of Information Unit, University of Lagos, Mr. Toyin Adebule, said Matthew was playing football at the university’s sports centre, where he slumped and was rushed to the medical centre.

 He said, “A student was brought from the sports centre to the medical centre. When he got there, he did not have any sign of life. The director of health centre and other workers there tried to resuscitate him to no avail. He was dead.

 “The dean of students’ affairs and other representatives of the school were there. We have reached the family and broken the news to them. Our prayers are with them that God will give them the fortitude to bear the loss.”

Six Ekiti State university students die in car accident

Six students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, have  died in an auto crash involving a car and a commercial bus on Monday.

The accident happened at about 7.30pm in front of the institution’s main gate.

According to an eyewitness, the six persons died from impact of an head-on collision of the two vehicles.

Another eyewitness told said that the students were in a Lexus saloon car and were coming from Ado Ekiti town to the university when the accident occurred.

The identities of the students could not be confirmed as at press time .

But the Ekiti Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the development, said his men had recorded five deaths.

An eyewitness said the driver of the car, suspected to be under the influence of alcohol with his friends, rammed into the mini bus conveying the students from the campus.

He added that they must have been heavily drunk and drove carelessly and collided with the commercial bus. Six people died on the spot while one of them is on danger list.

As at the time of this report, the Federal Road Safety Corps have taken the corpses to the morgue.

Final year student of Auchi Polytechnic drown to death

Death they say have no pitty, respect and fear no one as it once again showed its ugly face on 7th of July 2016 to take a away a final year student of Auchi Polytechnic.

The victim Okunlola Halimat Yetude, was said to be on her way to a  wedding  through a  river in Ivhianake-Ekperi Village,  Etsako Central, Edo state when the canoe capsized and she was believed to have drown.

However, other four occupants of the boat survived the accident, as the actual cause of the accident could not be confirmed at the time of this report.

Until her death, she was the Class representative of the department of Business Administration ND Final, A one one time member of Auchi Polytes Crib and a Member Rotary Club Of Nigeria, Auchi Polytechnic.

She has been buried according to Islamic rites.

Euro 2016: France to play Portugal in final

France have qualified for the final of the European Championship, after a 2-0 win over world champions, Germany.

The hosts put up great resistance against waves of German attacks, to edge the semi-final clash played at the Stade Velodrome.

Referee Nicola Rizzoli punished Bastian Schweinsteiger for handball as the first half came to a close and Antoine Griezmann blasted his country into the lead.

Didier Deschamps men withstood more pressure in the second half, before Griezmann capitalized on a defensive mix-up to poke in the second.

France will now play Portugal for the trophy on Sunday evening.

Medical Director of Abia State Polytechnic kidnapped

The Medical Director of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Dr. Eze Nwokocha, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen.

Nwokocha was allegedly whisked away by unknown gunmen at about 7pm on Sunday evening around Allwell Crescent near the Aba Fire Service station.

Punch quoted a source as saying that the medical doctor was returning to his house after attending a meeting in his hometown in the city, when gunmen accosted him and whisked him away in another vehicle.

It was gathered that the suspects demanded for about N50m ransom, but the men of the Abia State Police Command and other security agencies in the state have intensified efforts to rescue him.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ogbonnaya Nta, said the incident had yet to be reported to the police.