The management of Obafemi Awolowo university Ile-Ife has commenced the renovation of Halls of residence in the institution.

Being one of the core Agenda among others of the Ogunbodede Administration to refurbish the aged halls of residence and put to good condition, the hired workers are seen in full force tiling and restructuring dilapidated structures in toilets of Annex block C and D of Fajuyi hall of residence of which signs are seen of work to start sooner on other blocks and likewise the main Blocks of the hall.

According to one of the contractors in Block C that spoke with OAU Peeps News Agency, he said he has come to take the measurement like 6 months ago & that he's just being called to start the work weeks ago, and they will ensure to make done the work as soon as possible.

It will be recalled that the administration of the former Acting Vice chancellor (Prof. Anthony Elujoba) of the institution also took some obvious measure to renovate the toilets in halls of residence and make water supply available during his tenure before the coming into office of Ogunbodede.

Before now, students have taken to social media to complain the devastating status of the great Ife halls of residence and poor infrastructure.

Report has it that the school management is making every possible means to decongest the hostel although the left organisation termed it as 'forceful eviction from hall of residence and outrightly to dehumanize the studentry as they are to go off campus, into the arms of insecurity.""

According to a pharmacy student of Fajuyi hall who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that " The management should have done this since to complement Elojoba's work but all the same we hope they finish this and improve the welfarism of student which shouldn't only be on renovation of hostel toilets alone but repainting and also renovation of the rooms also.

In an exclusive interview with OAU Peeps News Agency, the Dean Of Students Affairs, Prof. Aransi confirmed &stated that the management wants to decongest the hostel so as to improve the welfare conditions of all halls of residence which is affected by Overcrowding. He added that the renovation has been planned on a larger scale before freshers resume by April 3 but facing challenges with students not leaving the halls of residence for their various homes though there are some that can't be denied hostel access like finalists ,SIWEP & SIWESS students, pharmacy students presently taking their examination, and also Education students who are on TP.

He was however unhappy with some students in the halls who are careless to the extent of burning their rooms as it happened recently in Block 3 of Awolowo Hall. ""Imagine we are trying our possible best to renovate and put all hostels to proper look and some of our students are being careless to the extent of burning rooms It occured in moremi, Fajuyi and Awolowo hall. ""

He also stated categorically squatters won"t be allowed this coming session and if anyone is caught in the act, the squatter and the "landlord" will be expelled as the issue won"t be lightly at all again.

He concluded that those who do sell and buy bedspaces should retract from such and if caught, the buyer and the seller will smell the hot part of law.

Source:
OAU Peeps News Agency
http://www.oaupeeps.com/2018/03/oau-begins-renovation-of-dilapidated.html

Cc:Lalasticlala

Credit:Uthman Samad

Good... Power of social media, Even those that used it to ascend the throne can longer stand it

It is good....

BUT THE PROBLEM IS...HOW DO THEY KEEP UP THE MAINTENANCE.?

Thing is, within a year, the newly renovated hostels will start looking old and wretched.

Because...there is enough money for the renovation...but not enough to keep up the maintenance.

And the only way to keep the hostels in good repair is to charge fees as high as 600000 naira per annum.

Or go and ask govt to spend 4 trillion of this year's 8 trillion naira budget on....universities alone.

hmmm...
I made a discovery on Nairaland,
Many peoples passion for likes makes them stop saying sensible things and pick up insensible things for Likes,
The internet never forgets,
Be yourself!

A wild and aggressive comment against Buhari for example would likely generate a lot of likes etc...
B4 it was Tribalism that trended now it's Hate against Buhari shown in comments, the internet never forgets.
Don't sacrifice common sense on the altar of cheap desire for likes that doesn't quantify a man's Value.


Great Ife! Great!

The fact that the students had to cried and protested for many years before the school could embark on this renovation is nothing but outright negligence and nonchalant attitude of the school administrators to the students plight.

Why must we wait 50 years before mentaining our infastructures?

Haba! Why am I lookin for the renovation? Abi eye is paining me.... Is that black soil that they are mixing with cement.... This country confuse pesin oo

Why dem still de use white tiles to tile that bathroom...use another colour na dt wnt be dt noticeable bcz one week afta dem finish,e go still show like say dem neva do anitin

About time tho...

smokedfish:
Why dem still de use white tiles to tile that bathroom...use another colour na dt wnt be dt noticeable bcz one week afta dem finish,e go still show like say dem neva do anitin

Gbam!!!!!!!!!

Who can epp me get the plumbing contract?

I can never forget my time there. It was a mix of "everything"

Why now? They need to leave this guy alone to rest in peace

https://www.nairaland.com/4382864/obafemi-awolowos-109th-posthumous-birthday/2#65619185

While the students should be psycho-educated on the need to maintain cleanliness.

Good

those hostels need renovation by julius berger not those baba kehinde bricklayer i see there

Bolustical:
And people who went through this hell of a school will still shamelessly look down on graduates of private universities who studied under good conditions.

Private Unis pay hefty fees for good facilities, but because they are relatively young...they don't have generations of academics with experience in their universities.

Meanwhile public universities have bad facilities...because they are forced to charge low fees...and because funding for education is falling..and we need something like N3-4 trillion yearly just for universities to look good.

If OAU charged fees as high as N1million like ABUAD....it would have good facilities AND good lecturers....but then would be out of reach to the poor.Therein lies the problem with funding for education in Nigeria.

in my 4 yrs in UI, I never saw any hall structure this gross..this revamping is long overdue abeg...

imohchard:
those hostels need renovation by julius berger not those baba kehinde bricklayer i see there

I agree! ...though some of those small contractors can do very good jobs!(My dad hired a small contractor to do some house renovation.once....and they did it well.)

Having said that...OAU, or indeed any other Nigerian university cannot afford Julius Berger. The amount that JB would quote would probably be too high for the university...unless they increase fees, or get some rich alum to pony up the cash.

imohchard:
those hostels need renovation by julius berger not those baba kehinde bricklayer i see there

So you want Julius Berger to renovate the place...which Julius Berger are we talking of first?
The Julius at Berger bustop?

where is the renovation?

I would really be happy if OAU hostels are fully refurbished. The state of the hostels is the biggest embarrassment of the school. Forget all these poor confrontational students who refuse to leave hostels. Tight measures should be employed to address squatters and illegal residents. I witnessed it but I don't want other prospective students to witness such. It's not an environment fit for an animal. Especially Awo block 5...jeez!!!

Cromcruach91:
It is good....

BUT THE PROBLEM IS...HOW DO THEY KEEP UP THE MAINTENANCE.?

Thing is, within a year, the newly renovated hostels will start looking old and wretched.

Because...there is enough money for the renovation...but not enough to keep up the maintenance.

And the only way to keep the hostels in good repair is to charge fees as high as 600000 naira per annum.

Or go and ask govt to spend 4 trillion of this year's 8 trillion naira budget on....universities alone.

so are you now saying that the OAU students should be paying #600000 for school fees. how could you reason this way. so so pathetic. upon the millions of naira on covenant and abuad universities, OAU still beat them well in competition.

The only solution to this problem is to make all the rooms for two or at most three bedded and give the hostels out to contractors to manage and maintain.

I don dey expect one kin Julius berger type of renovation sef,so na this small thing students no fit raise money together do?