The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) that his administration will ensure the university community benefits from the ongoing dualisation of Ekehuan Road project as well as the Ossiomo Independent Power Plant project.

Obaseki gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by management of UNIBEN. led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, at Government House in Benin City, on Monday.

He said, “I am governor of everybody and everything in the state including UNIBEN. We look forward to collaborating more with you. We are working on the Ekehuan Road project which is now going to make the Ekehuan Campus of the university accessible. We are happy we have UNIBEN in our state particularly in Benin City. It will not be fair for a government that emphasizes education not to take advantage of the very fact that the institution resides in our territory. We are happy we have UNIBEN, we know how much it has contributed to educational and social development of our state over the last four decades."

According to him, “It doesn't matter if it is ours, but for the fact that the university is located here in our state, it gives us a responsibility to make sure we make it part of our existence.”

“We are working very hard to connect 50 megawatts of electricity from Ossiomo Power Plant to the Government Science and Technical College and some of the power will be extended to UNIBEN so that you can have uninterrupted power supply. I am making the whole axis an Integrated Science and Technology Hub with a Data Centre.”

Responding to the requests made by the Vice Chancellor, Obaseki said the state government has awarded repairs of the road network in the institution, adding, “We will mandate the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF) contractor in charge of the hostel renovation to go back to site. We are beneficiaries of the Federal Fire Service; I am going to make a case for you.

“I’m also going to talk to some of our corporate organisations who are operating here to see if we can support the university with fire trucks, but we are hoping to create a fire service centre that people can call when there is a fire outbreak. We have been talking with the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) to create an ambulance service for the citizens in the state, where you can call an ambulance when the need arises.”

Earlier, Prof. Salami congratulated Governor Obaseki on his victory in the September 19 governorship election in the state and assured him of the institution’s readiness to support the administration, adding, “The victory at the poll has actually told a lot about our performing governor. We are sure you will even perform more in your second tenure. We are proud of you. We hope and pray that in good health, you will continue the good work you have started.”

She intimated her host that, “The Federal Ministry of Education has asked universities to come up with a process for resumption and we had picked October 24 as our tentative date for resumption. The institution has resolved in taking the final year students and professional programmes because of COVID-19."

She commended the governor for his massive renovation of the hostels in UNIBEN ahead of the 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF).

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L-R: Vice Chancellor, University of Benin, Prof. Lilian Salami; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq.; Edo State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Jimoh Ijegbai, after a courtesy visit by the management of UNIBEN, at Government House, Benin City.



Source:https://leadership.ng/2020/09/29/uniben-to-benefit-from-ekehuan-road-dualisation-ossiomo-power-project-obaseki-assures-vc/

Edojoma:


Stop analysing dere n confirm..

I'm a pg student in uniben,, just called student affairs n dean to confirm,, its true, pg will resume first,, d letter is like DAT because the meeting was held online....

And d only clause he added is DAT everything now depends on ASUU... Xo don't b too quick to dispute info....

And it has been confirmed by odas in our pg whatsapp group as well..

Couldn't upload full PDF ...

what date exactly is of resuming?
is it the said 24/10

CORDROSS:
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baba listen to this guy

something is getting more than this and leaving this amount all to implicate you

One Year After Being Rumoured To Be President Buhari’s Mistress, Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq, Marries Chief Of Air Staff, Abubakar, In Secret Ceremony
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About one year after grabbing the headlines for being President Muhammadu Buhari’s potential bride, Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has tied the nuptial knots with Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, in a secret ceremony in Abuja.
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The call for and against the reopening of higher institutions has pitted public and private universities against each other as the gloom of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hangs over Nigeria’s education system. Head, Education Desk, IYABO LAWAL examines the issues.

Since March 2020, universities, public and private in Nigeria, have remained shut. From that time till date, university education seems to have suffered more setbacks as the enforced shutdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic runs into September, with a call for the reopening of the higher institutions pitting the former against the latter.

The Federal and state Governments, taking a better-safe-than-sorry approach in the gradual reopening of schools across the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, decided to have a staggered return to the classroom, with SS3 students allowed to return to school in August solely to write their final-year exam. Following them are JSS3 and SS2 students.

It is a fact that in most public schools in the country, classrooms are often overcrowded with sparse furniture. But things are worse in public universities: other facilities like hostels and toilets, among others are like sinkholes. That condition is worrisome to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The private universities have, over the years and to some extent, reduced country’s capital flight, as parents who could sell all they have to send their children overseas to have good higher education can now get a semblance of that in the country’s private institutions. But the continued shutdown of private universities is breaking the resolve of owners of the institutions.

In July, Chief Afe Babalola attributed the failure of final-year students in Nigerian universities to resume studies, like the primary and secondary schools, to the frosty relationship between the Federal Government and ASUU.

According to Babalola, the government left out the final-year students of universities because ASUU might raise objection if the undergraduates were directed to resume.

Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) and former Pro-Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), had said, “Before I took over as Pro-Chancellor and chairman of council at the University of Lagos, even council meetings could not take place unless ASUU and other unions had been appeased or else, such council meetings would not be allowed to hold. It was a serious matter at that time, but I successfully managed that.

Babalola asserted that the future of the country with regard to quality and functional education lies with private universities.

The legal luminary said that most private universities are reputed for their moral and physical discipline, quality and functional education, hygienic and safe environment, predictable academic calendar, absence of trade unionism, committed teachers, modern teaching equipment and laboratories, as well as adequate preparation to prevent COVID-19.

However, most of what he mentioned is like a mirage in public universities.

Chief Babalola is not alone in that call for the reopening. The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Private Universities (CPCPU) also appealed to the government to reopen the country’s 78 private universities shut following the COVID-19 crisis.

The CPCPU, in a communique by the Head of Corporate Services of ABUAD, Tunde Olofintila, said private universities were ready to reopen having emplaced all the necessary requirements and protocols specified by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to ensure a safe and secure campus.

If the government was beginning to reflect on the clamour of the private institutions, ASUU reared its head, faulting its plan to reopen public universities in the country.

Bauchi Zonal Coordinator of the union, Prof. Lawan Abubakar said the move could be “perilous.”

Abubakar, who declared that ASUU was not in support of the plan, maintained that reopening the institutions would further pose dangers to students and it would be inimical to the fight against the spread of coronavirus in the country.

Abubakar said most public universities lack the infrastructure that would enable students comply with putting safety protocols in place, thereby, making them prone to contracting COVID-19.

To Abubakar, the COVID-19 pandemic had further affirmed ASUU’s demands for a well-funded university system as contained in the 2013 and other Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was reached.

He expressed fears that it may take more than 10 years to put the necessary facilities needed in public varsities in place before the institutions can meet the COVID-19 safety protocol.

“Had government implemented the 2013 MoU and subsequent ones,” he had argued, “we would not have been caught off-guard by COVID-19; we would have been contemplating reopening the universities now that the numbers of cases are declining in the country.

“So, it is now clear to everyone that neither the struggle of ASUU nor the COVID-19 protocols agree with the reopening of universities. We must avert this disaster while we can.”

In a rallying cry, the union leader urged students, parents and the general public to resist any planned reopening without adequate measures taken, adding that ASUU and other stakeholders have a responsibility to ensure that public universities in the country are not joked with.

Well, public universities are already a joke in the country with incessant strikes, disagreeements with the government and poor infrastructures, a former vice chancellor who pleaded anonymity said.

ASUU reiterated that reopening pubic universities now could lead to a second wave of COVID-19 in the country.

The national President, Prof Abiodun Ogunyemi said while the union is not against the reopening of universities, it is concerned about whether the guidelines stipulated by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have been met.

Ogunyemi maintained that ASUU would resume when conditions for resumption are met, including their demands as contained in the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Federal Government.

“Calling lecturers to resume now after almost six months, the question is, what are we going back with? Salaries are not paid, the issue of IPPIS is still in contention, and the condition we left the institutions in before the strike has worsened. COVID-19 pandemic has further escalated the crisis in tertiary institutions; it has exposed the emptiness in our universities,” Ogunyemi added.

The ASUU chief insisted that universities would not reopen until the Federal Government honours the agreement it reached with the union.

He said the government has resumed talks with the union but refused to disclose the details.

“I think it is better we wait. When we get to that bridge, we will cross it,’ he said.

Ogunyemi listed some of the union’s demands to include funding of university education, which the government had reneged on in the last 10 years.

“There is a deliberate attempt to kill university education in the country. Some universities use stoves in their laboratories instead of burners and buckets to fetch water to perform experiments; it’s as bad as that,” he lamented.

The rot in the country’s public universities is further laid bare as academic activities continue seamlessly in private institutions with the former having no clue on how to adjust to the new normal or even disentangle itself from the chaos of incessant disagreeements with the government.

The problems in the nation’s education system goes beyond its dwindling standards or decrepit infrastructures, it sinks to the bottom of ICT infrastructures, both software and hardware, and that deficiency has become too telling with many undergraduates feeling the angst of arrested development occasioned by the COVID-19 crisis.

While many private universities have carried on with academic activities, and even conducted examinations, Federal and state government-owned universities have crumbled under the weight of the pandemic.

The difference: private universities have the infrastructure for virtual (online) education; publicly-owned ones do not.

As far back as 2014, local area network (LAN) is commonplace in the Nigerian tertiary institutions and can be a good platform for distributing and disseminating instructional materials.

Stakeholders held that the system helps in no small measure to correct the problems plaguing the educational sector such as examination malpractice, declining standards of education and cultism, as students are gainfully engaged in academic and social activities.

They added that the creation of a virtual campus by most of the private institutions would enhance the level of e-participation, and e-readiness of the graduates for the employment market.

However, publicly-owned universities are largely dinosaur-years behind. Even the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has cancelled all academic activities because it does not have the infrastructures to move its traditional functions online.

For Prof Ibrahim Abdullahi of University of Maiduguri, public universities suffer a litany of stumbling blocks: and are ill-equipped for online education because of lack of infrastructures for that purpose.

Spokesman for the National Universities Commission (NUC), Ibrahim Yakassai, described the problem confronting the nation’s institutions as a national issue.

Yakassai noted that even if the (government-owned) universities have the capacity for online learning, most of the students don’t have smartphones while some parents may be too poor to afford data.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and ASUU remains vehemently opposed to the government on certain unresolved issues, reopening of the universities remains a dream, at least for now.

decuteGenius:
I'd support them on this. Why would students leave their belongings in school and go on a break. As if to say


I'm sure some of em have been squatting in school during lockdown



If you attack this guys, you're a big fan of corruption

was the duration of the break certain?

not clear!

Your proposition is not entirely the reason...

Oshiomole have been strip of his might.
Tinubu, Buhari and FG has no stake I'm particular...

During the PTF briefing in Abuja yesterday being 17th September, 2020. it was annouced that Federal Institutions can resume if only they get permission from the National Universities Commission (NUC).

This declaration comes 14 days after the taskforce has declared that schools can resume on Thursday September 3rd, 2020.

However, the presidential task force(PTF) stated that State Government can direct chance appraisal to permit all schools in there respective state to reopen, Through following the measures to curtail the spread of the virus and ensure there are procedures on ground to monitor and control the situation before reopening schools.

Meanwhile, some State Governors have announced dates for returning of schools example are (Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Borno, Anambra, Ebonyi, Ondo, Delta, Kogi, Oyo state respectively). Note their declaration just applies to state claimed foundations only.

Yet, with this pronouncement by the presidential task force (PTF), every single Federal Institution (Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education) would now be able to resume and students can return to their studies, while other states schools remain Closed till 2021.

UndauntedYOCA:
Ahan, kilode? Na do dem many for that school reach?

77,000+ in total!

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has tied resumption to the speedy endorsement of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) by the Federal Government.

The union claimed that the alleged non-release of N1.1 trillion revitalisation fund for over six years had rendered scholars impotent in searching for a cure for the novel coronavirus.

Coordinator, ASUU Port Harcourt zone, Uzo Onyebinama, told journalists yesterday in the Rivers State capital that following the rejection of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the union developed UTAS as a replacement to sanitise the payroll and accounting processes.

He explained that besides other pressing issues that necessitated the ongoing strike, the lecturers would not return to the classroom until government approves the integrity test on UTAS.

Onyebinama insisted that UTAS was far better than IPPIS “which does not respect the nature, structure and character of the Nigerian university system.”

ASUU stated that the new initiative was a web-based enterprise resource planning application deployed for the overall management of university resources in an efficient, transparent and accountable manner.

He went on: “Among other things, UTAS recognises all agreements entered into between the government and university-based trade unions; ensures simultaneous payment of employees’ salaries and third party deductions like tax, pension, union dues, cooperatives, bank loans seamlessly; and allows for centralised monitoring of staff and staff emolument across institutions by the National Universities Commission (NUC).”

The body stressed that the conceptualisation of UTAS was a “concrete attestation to the capacity of Nigerian scholars and researchers to respond to the country’s developmental challenges when tasked to provide solutions.”

ASUU said it hoped that the Federal Government “would not renege on its promise to carry out integrity test on the UTAS because the benefits of the programme to the university system cannot be found in any other software today.”

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Comfort to the family of the deceased.

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Why not reduce the National Assembly allowance and keep them from unemployment?!


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Grateful02:
why the story short na? you no tell us weather you later change course go education

I am still there in my finals already on a 2.1!

Nowenuse:


My brother you are not alone in this, believe me.

I finished from Uniben in 2017 from the faculty of medical sciences and believe me, going to Uniben was the biggest mistake and regret I have in this life till now. Especially when I had the option of going to a private varsity.

Throughout my primary school and for most of my secondary school, I was a star pupil and always came at the top of the class.
Uniben was a very different story for me and I actually had an extra year.
Till now I hate Benin city as a whole and avoid going to that city like a plague, even though I have lots of family members there. Cos whenever I go there, I remember the frustrations from that school called Uniben.

Almost everything about Uniben is fvcked up. Only few faculties are sane. The rest are like a death trap.
I was an intelligentsia and erudite before I got into Uniben. I was very passionate about an academic career and education. However, I have lost all that steam attending Uniben and all my heart and attention in life have been diverted towards business.
I don't even want to hear of a master's degree with my 2 ears, in spite of how much my family is on my neck to pursue a master's.

When I was in my final year and I saw the new intakes who were very happy and excited to gain admission into Uniben, I shook my head. I pitied them.
Uniben is just like the road to hell, where before you realize how far you have gone, it's too late to turn around.

My brother, it is well.
You are definitely not alone in this.
Dust yourself and pick yourself up, things are going to be fine.

what faculty and department in college of Medicine?

DavidEsq:

It's no special treatment sha. It's just the feeling that Odogwu is in the room so everybody must kpro

as in eh �

I remember when I was applying 2016 to the college of Medicine... People were like go and register another Jamb you can't be admitted, suprisingly my name was in the first batch!

DavidEsq:

. Guy ! Anytime I tell peepz I attended uniben, there is sudden silence in the room. Everywhere quiet, especially all these crass UniAbuja students

I wonder why the special treatment! �


But UNIBEN can teach you sense in the hard way.

ranging from lecturers to class stress then Ekosodin boys

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288,885,000,000.00 Nigerian Naira!!!!!

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not in US dollar

ishowdotgmail:
Have money oo else you will suffer

It's not all about money... with his money do you think he his happy ?

IamWonderful:


1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

always interpolate this scriptures to the mandate given to us by Christ to reach out to the lost.

For instance, you can't stop using phone because there a adult sites... the same phone can be used to reach out to the lost. like of recent during the pandemic through mobile phones and television fellowshiping together became easier.

lexy2014:


U can't blame Christianity for d decision made by those who grew up in church to go into d world. Ur premise is faulty and lacks merit by every biblical standard

I think you misjudged my intent.

I meant they go wayward because they are taught (from stereotyping) their gift is irrelevant to the body of Christ

IamWonderful:
Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.


Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

what would you say if he featured in BBNaija opening?!

God want us believers to take over the entertainment industry to give righteous content... the basis and intent of the reality show is to discover God given talents.

That's why you see worldy musicians give credence to the fact they started from the church choir but our ignorance in God's intent make us loose them to the world.

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Barcelona hope to persuade Lionel Messi to stay at the club, but some members of the board have told ESPN that they wouldn’t be against selling him in the right circumstances.

New coach Ronald Koeman has publicly said he wants to build the team around Messi, and sources have told ESPN that the board’s stance is that they want to keep him.



However, Messi’s doubts about his future have generated an internal debate among the board. Some directors have told ESPN that they would be prepared to listen to offers that would allow Koeman to reconstruct the team at the same time as reducing the wage bill.

Messi has grown frustrated with events on and off the pitch in recent seasons. He had a public falling-out with former sporting director Eric Abidal earlier this year and criticised the board for attempting to put pressure on the players when they were negotiating a wage cut due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On the pitch, Champions League exits against Roma and Liverpool have been followed by a first trophy-less season since 2007-08, with the humiliating 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich topping everything off.

RAC 1 first revealed on Thursday that Messi has already met with Koeman and informed him that he sees himself more out than in at Camp Nou after the Champions League.


source: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/barcelona-ready-to-sell-lionel-messi/amp/

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