People suspected to be cultists on Tuesday went on a rampage in The Polytechnic, Ibadan, unleashed mayhem and destroyed six vehicles and two tricycles.
Our sources gathered that they vandalised six cars and two tricycles were owned by some staff of the institution and commercial operators.
The attack came few hours after the institution’s management directed the students to resume for academic activities.
The institution had said the resumption became necessary in order for the students to continue their academic exercise for the remaining part of the first semester 2018/2019 academic session.
The directive was contained in a statement signed by the Registrar. Mrs Modupe Theresa Fawale, who disclosed that a town-and-gown meeting held on Monday, 6th May 2019, with parents, guardians, communities surrounding the institution as well as traditional rulers, religious leaders and landlord associations yielded positive results which culminated in the decision to re-open the institution forthwith.
Unfortunately, as they resumed it was gathered that the unknown gunmen invaded the institution some minutes before 4.pm on Tuesday and attacked anyone found in the institution.
A management staff of the institution said, “There were rains of gunshots as some unknown men disrupted the peace at the South campus entrance of the institution on Tuesday afternoon, 7th May, 2019.
"The incident began some minutes to 4pm in the afternoon, where various properties were damaged ranging from private cars, tricycles, the commercial bus, and the security house at the entrance of the Institution.
“Those people were three with two holding guns, and one with axe. They were in blue top and black beret. When they came, the security men manning the gate ran for their lives as they were shooting in the air as well as destroying cars with the axe.
“Before the security operatives would reach the venue of the situation, the perpetrators of the acts have left the scene”.
Another staff of the institution confirmed that,’
’the incident occurred at the South Campus of the institution where the assailants vandalised six cars and two tricycles.”
When contacted, the institution’s Public Relations Officer Alhaji Soladoye Adewole said he was yet to be ‘briefed’ about the incident.
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LEADERSHIP
The University of Ibadan has announced the resumption date for academic activities following the suspension of a three-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The university management in a statement signed by the Vice Chancellor, Idowu Olayinka announced February 14, as resumption date for its students.
However, academic activities will resume officially on Feb. 18th.
The statement reads: “Following the suspension of the strike action embarked upon by the ASUU, we wish to advise our students to plan to return to the university as from Thursday, 14th February 2019.
“This would enable those whose voting centres are located within the university to exercise their civic responsibilities on election days.
“On the issue of resumption day for academic activities as directed by the ASUU President, the University of Ibadan management have scheduled to re-commence on Monday, February 18, 2019.
“A revised Academic Calendar for the rest of the 2017/2018 session is being drawn up and will be circulated shortly.
“We wish all those that will be traveling from far and near to Ibadan safe trips.”
The non-academic staff union, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) branches of Ibadan Polytechnic have suspended a week-old strike action.
COLOSSUS GISTS reported how the workers commenced an indefinite strike over eight months’ unpaid arrears and the alleged ‘meagre’ subventions by the Oyo State Government.
The chairmen of NASU and SSANIP, Raji Akande and Ajibola Oyetunde respectively, told COLOSSUS GISTS that the decision to call off the strike was as a result of the intervention of the institution’s governing council.
“The governing council had a meeting with us last week and they have given us their words,” Mr Oyetunde said.
According to Mr Akande, after the meeting with the council, the congress of NASU members met on Monday.
“Our members have also decided that we should consider the suspension at the congress. Although, some of the resolutions of the governing council do not go down with us,” he said.
Also, in a letter of suspension sent to the governing council to notify them of their decision, obtained by COLOSSUS GISTS, NASU stated that “After much deliberations the leadership of the union appealed to the Congress, to allow the management to admit students for the 2018/2019 admission, which we believe the process would be done within two months.”
“The union frowned at the letter sent by the governing council and have no trust in it. The council as matter of urgency should go back to the government to request for bail-outs to defray the (8) eight month salary arrears.”
Thereafter, the chairmen of the two unions told their members to resume work on Tuesday and allow peace reign in all their offices.
The state government, through the commissioner for education, Adeniyi Olowofela, stated that the government is not owing to the staff as highlighted in the unions’ demands and that the governing council of the school should respond to the workers’ grievances.
Over 30 vehicles held in traffic with almost 10 commuters were burnt to death in the inferno on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, opposite Michael Otedola Housing Estate, along Mowe, before Berger this evening.
The vehicles were reportedly burnt to ashes as a result of a fallen petrol tanker which hit a pavement and catches fire along the Otedola bridge, of Lagos Ibadan expressway. Cause of the accident seems to be as a result of Brake Failure.
The Joint Rescue Operation involving FRSC, LASEMA, NPF, RRS, NSCDC, Lagos State Fire Service, LASTMA were on ground to assist in clearing the incident area. As at the time of this report, over 10+ persons have been reported dead, 4 injured
Bodies of the victims of the tanker explosion being evacuated 💔💔💔💔...
An Eyewitness gives details of how the fire accident occurred on the Otedola Bridge
WATCH BELOW
This man above wasn't even worried about his car because it could have been his life! God help us.
LESSON - Please friends, always save yourself first! As long as you have life, everything can be replaced!
PLEA/ADVISE TO NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT
Why should tankers go through the same road with normal commuters? Can't fuel and other PMS be transported through Trains? Rather a separate route for tankers alone?
This is not so in other nations. FRSC and other force don't stop trailers for inspection but cause of bribery they stop smaller ones for seat belts.
Government please make the roads safe for motorist! We are tired of all these!
May the souls of the dead Rest In Peace.
The federal government has said that laying of tracks for standard gauge railway line from Lagos to Ibadan would commence in April this year. This remark was made by Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday at Adunbu in Ogun State after an on the spot assessment of the ongoing paving of right of way for laying of tracks.
Apart from moving the Abeokuta Railway station to a virgin land in order to reduce demolition of structures along the railway corridors, he disclosed that a committee headed by the chairman, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Engr. Unman Abubakar , has been set up to give an update on the removal of all obstacles on the Lagos to Ibadan standard gauge project.
According to him, some of the obstacles identified obstacles were oil and gas pipelines, water pipelines, Apapa/Ijora bridge, power lines, sewage, railway station and staff quarters in Lagos amongst others.
Amaechi stated further that discussions were ongoing with Lagos State Water Corporation, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Federal Ministry Power and Housing with a view to finding out how to relocate their respective utilities so as to pave right of way for the project.
He commended China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for accelerating the pace of work and expressed hope that the December dateline set for the commissioning would come to fruition.
The Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, UI, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka has identified inadequate funding as the main problem confronting higher education in Nigeria, stressing that government must properly fund universities to be globally competitive.
Olayinka who stated this on MITV said that quality education comes with sufficient cash adding, “What stops UI from recruiting a Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University to come and be teaching our students in Ibadan? But can we pay his salary?
Will he be willing to come and be contending with all these money-induced incessant strike? What makes a world-class university is the quality of human resources.
How many foreign lecturers and foreign students can Nigerian universities attract with our poor infrastructure and conditions? I think we need to invest heavily in education if we must be globally competitive”.
Also identifying the problems of access and quality, Olayinka pointed out that public universities were the most heavily subscribed options by the teeming candidates over state and privately owned universities because of cost, but regretted that public universities lacked adequate space to accommodate all the candidates.
According to him, “10,000 candidates applied to study Medicine and Surgery in UI, but we can only admit 150 because of space, we would have loved to admit more than 150 but because we don’t want to compromise the quality that we are producing. If there is money, we can expand the scope, build more hostels and classrooms”.
On the incessant strike rocking the sector, Olayinka linked the problem to the same issue of funding, noting that the staff members became restful because the salary was “amputated “, maintaining that this is one of the reasons Nigerian youth run to Ghana and other neighbouring countries to study.
The UI vice chancellor argued that most of the foreign universities being attended by Nigerian youths were not relatively better than Nigerian universities, but because “there is a stable academic calendar over there, they attract our youth who want to complete their studies on record time.
He noted that the public primary and secondary schools have virtually collapsed in the country because they were not well taken-care of, hence, many parents now send their children to private primary and secondary schools.
Prof. Olayinka insisted that education was not cheap as someone has to pick up the bills, thereby calling on all stakeholders to join hands in order to save education sector.
Olayinka who stated this on MITV said that quality education comes with sufficient cash adding, “What stops UI from recruiting a Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University to come and be teaching our students in Ibadan? But can we pay his salary?
Will he be willing to come and be contending with all these money-induced incessant strike? What makes a world-class university is the quality of human resources.
How many foreign lecturers and foreign students can Nigerian universities attract with our poor infrastructure and conditions? I think we need to invest heavily in education if we must be globally competitive”.
Also identifying the problems of access and quality, Olayinka pointed out that public universities were the most heavily subscribed options by the teeming candidates over state and privately owned universities because of cost, but regretted that public universities lacked adequate space to accommodate all the candidates.
According to him, “10,000 candidates applied to study Medicine and Surgery in UI, but we can only admit 150 because of space, we would have loved to admit more than 150 but because we don’t want to compromise the quality that we are producing. If there is money, we can expand the scope, build more hostels and classrooms”.
On the incessant strike rocking the sector, Olayinka linked the problem to the same issue of funding, noting that the staff members became restful because the salary was “amputated “, maintaining that this is one of the reasons Nigerian youth run to Ghana and other neighbouring countries to study.
The UI vice chancellor argued that most of the foreign universities being attended by Nigerian youths were not relatively better than Nigerian universities, but because “there is a stable academic calendar over there, they attract our youth who want to complete their studies on record time.
He noted that the public primary and secondary schools have virtually collapsed in the country because they were not well taken-care of, hence, many parents now send their children to private primary and secondary schools.
Prof. Olayinka insisted that education was not cheap as someone has to pick up the bills, thereby calling on all stakeholders to join hands in order to save education sector.
The University of Ibadan on Monday have been shut down by the school management following a protest over the issuance of students’ identity cards before the first semester examination and also the lack of electric-powered cooking appliance in the hostels.
At a congress called by the Student’s Union on Saturday, resolutions passed included an ultimatum to the school authority to constitute the Students Welfare Board and set up a committee to look into the issue of the use of electric-powered cooking appliances in the school hostels.
The Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, said that the closure followed a protest by the students and to avert a breakdown of peace on campus.
Undergraduate students of the institution were advised to vacate the campus by 6pm on Monday while the first semester examination, earlier scheduled to commence in June, has been moved to July 17.
The students took over the busy Mokola-Ojoo road, causing a gridlock while calling on the school authority to accede to their demands.
In response to the congress, a statement from the school management on Sunday however stated that contrary to the students’ claim that their requests were not taken seriously, the school authority had addressed the demands and appealed to the students to be calm and shelve the protest.
The statement read,
“The expanded management of the university met with the leadership of the Students’ Union on May 28, 2017. The meeting is sequel to the resolutions passed at the Students’ Union Congress that was held on May 27, 2017. The management called the meeting in the interest of peace and the wellbeing of our students.
“The management wishes to inform students that efforts are currently being made to ensure that identity cards are produced and distributed starting from the middle of June.”
“The problem of the use of unauthorized cooking appliances in the halls is not new. Indeed, at a meeting between the university management and the students sometimes in 2014, it was agreed that cooking appliances, especially hotplates, be abolished in the halls of residence because of the huge cost of electricity to the university.
Besides, the non-use of these cooking appliances is part of the agreement signed by each student before residency in the halls.”
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Punch
The Nationwide #IStandWithNigeria protests are ongoing in at least two states – Lagos and Ibadan – and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Protesters took to the streets carrying placards with inscriptions “Unemployed people are hungry and angry,” “All Nigerian lives matter,” “Where is our president?” “Enough is Enough,” among others.
Comedian, Seyilaw also joined demonstrators at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
See photos and videos below:
In Ibadan:
In Abuja:
Lawyer, and former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu
In Lagos:
Comedian Seyilaw
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