OAU Kilonshele News Outfit

DSA calls Final Year Students  and Prospective Corp Members for NYSC orientation/sensitization exercise on Thursday, 1st of June 2017 by 12noon at Ajose Hall.

      Sportsmen converged at the students union building in the afternoon of Tuesday, 30th of May  to stage a peaceful protest against the allocation of sports category bed spaces to non athletes, at the Division of Students' affairs building.        In the address of the Students' Union, Director of Sports to the sportsmen, he made it known that the sports-category bed spaces given to non-athletes should be withdrawn by the division in charge. In his words,        '' We are marching to the DSA office to claim what belongs to the sportsmen since they've decided not to yield to the yearnings of the athletes. ''     On getting to the Division of Students' affairs building, the athletes expressed their grievances and were attended to by a senior staff of the department. The man stated it emphatically that something will be done as regards their accommodation. He said,      "The dean is not ar...

      In the late evening of Monday, a student, whose name is Jide accused the Students' Union Director of Socials, popularly known as Lamba, alongside some guys of harassment in Fajuyi Hall of residence.       Mr. Jide narrated to our correspondent that his bedspace in Room no 303, block 3, Fajuyi Hall of residence was claimed to have been allocated to the director of socials, he was told by the Hall chairman (Izzieman) and Lamba to vacate the place but he pleaded with them on Saturday, 27th of May saying he (Mr. Jide) will vacate the place latest 5pm on Monday, 29th of May. But, due to some constraints he was unable to leave and later on, Lamba showed up with some of the hall executives to throw their things out.       According to a witness, Mr Shola of the department of international relations, he said       " I was in the room and Lamba and his guys threw out everything in the room. He (Lamba) almost damaged a lapt...

"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate , but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose." BARACK OBAMA,    God bless Nigeria, a country whose independence was attained 57 years ago. Today, 29th of May, marks another anniversary of the existence of Nigeria as a democratic state.    Abraham Lincoln's definition of democracy which answers the questions of who and to whom the leadership of the government is and for, is still applicable to our country.    However the purpose of determining the leadership through the choice of the followers is missing. Though we still have a democratic state but it is now being built on the foundation of tribalism, prejudices and religious segregation. Hence, these are the factors aiding the growth of corruption, incompetence of leaders, embezzlement at all levels, etc.    The concept of democrac...

   As part of the programmes of the students' union for the freshmen orientation, a 'burn-fire' / Aro night was organized for the sensitization of the newly admitted students. This took place at Anglomoz car park in the late night of Tuesday, 23rd of May.    Present in the progamme were the SU central executive members, parliamentarians, past union leaders, students activists from other schools, freshmen and students of the varsity.      The event featured various performances by the students ; the Kegites' club, Awo boys and others. The president addressed the students on the achievements of his administration since inception and warned people who are interested in causing a division in the union to desist from such acts.      Also, Adeleke Olorunwa (Goddey),  the former Chief Security Officer of the Students' union in 2006/2007 in his address to the freshmen and Great Ife students encouraged them to uphold the tenets and cu...

      In the evening of Tuesday, 23rd of May, a meeting of all athletes with the students' union president was held in SUB TV room.       After the reading of a copy  of the letter sent to the school management, the SU sports director briefed the students on the latest developments as regards what they are clamouring for.       Few minutes after the commencement of the meeting, the president addressed the athletes. He started by debunking rumours about his indifference to the welfarism of all athletes, saying   'Why will I tell the school management not to fund sporting activities?  Why won't they spend on athletes?'.        In a bid to pacify the infuriated athletes, the president promised that their allowance would be paid and accommodation challenges would be resolved, saying,   "latest! Next two weeks everything will be alright" . The sportsmen were also promised a befitting hosting by the St...

   The athletes, who are supposed to meet for a solidarity vigil in the late night of Sunday, 21st of May and commence their protest in the morning of Monday, 22nd of May, have suspended it.    In a conversation with the SU director of sports, he stated it that the protest has been suspended because of certain questions being posed by students, one of which probes the prior information of the offices copied in their letter of notification.    He furthered by disclosing to our correspondent that some officers of the university has threatened him with his studentship. However, it was made known that, a 48 hours ultimatum will be given to the management to solve athletes' problems, which include ; hosting of all that represented the school in NUGA, payment of their outstanding allowance and the allocation of bed spaces for them. Then after the expiration of the specified time, the protest would begin. Olufemi Alfred .O. Oau Kilonshele News outfit report...

OAU ATHLETES THREATEN TO STAGE A PROTEST ON MONDAY     For the past few days, sportsmen have been clamouring for the allocation of bed space and the payment of their outstanding allowance using the social media as a tool for the exercise .     Three public releases have been sent through the office of the director of sports, students' union, and their arguments have been countered by the Dean of the division of students' affairs.     In one of the public releases,  the SU director of sports made it known that the names of the athletes submitted haven't been given bed spaces. It was countered in a conversation with the madam DSA, saying that 'those names were submitted lately' .     In lieu of that, a meeting of all sportsmen was held around 12pm on Saturday, 20th of May. The meeting had over 60 athletes, the  head of the transportation committee, SU sports director and the SU welfare director  (representing the CEC members) in ...

The asperous invasion of the Draculas aka the *bed bugs* seem to be on the increase on oau campus, as bed bugs are well known as creepy biting insects, which can be largely found in rooms and hostels on this formidable campus.Bed bugs require blood in order to reproduce and complete their life cycle. The effect of bed bugs bites vary among people, but they eventually produce red welts that itch.             The bites themselves are not painful and typically are not felt. However, frequent feeding can disrupt people's sleep and make them irritable, and seeing bites may cause emotional distress in some people. Heavy rates of feeding can result in significant blood loss and eventually lead to anemia, most students don't seem to be aware of this fact as some act ''unperturbed'' at the sight. Bed bugs typically are active at night and hide during the daytime.           Being very flat, they are able to find a wide variety of places...

Just yesterday in Adekunle Fajuyi Hall, Ibile who is popularly known for his relentless campaign for Dr Ibk, SU President during election period was caught and paraded for theft. Allegedly, threats were issued towards the Fajuyi HEC in order to stop the conventional issuing of SMS and the parade exercise of Ibile by his former cohorts. As stated by Izzieman, the duty of Fajuyi Hall executives is to fajuyians, therefore the necessity to parade Ibile as norm permits. During a chat with the SU CSO, Sheyman, it is confirmed that Ibile was a former Security member er during Election period. As stated by Sheyman when asked if Ibile is truly a member of the SU security committee, he has this to say: "He was a former security committee during the electoral period, but he was never a member of security committee of this present administration,infact we are expecting the case to be transferred to us to further investigation. Dr Ibk has never called him to come and join the securit...

It is confirmed that Prof Ogunbodede of College of Health Sciences has been elected as the new Vice Chancellor of OAU by majority in the Senate. It is not to be side-waved that rumours of his emergence have been flooding the media space before his eventual  emergence an hour ago. The process that saw through the election was led by Prof Yemi Ogunbiyi, the Chairman of OAU GOVERNING Council. It is also confirmed that NASU and SSANU met this new development with great excitement. "It is not that all other candidates are bad, but we prefer Prof Ogunbodede because he is better than all others. We are glad he emerged." A NASU member confesses. *Oau Kilonshele Reports* ```Reinvigorating Informative and Investigative Journalism```

  Sequel to the inability of the school management to fumigate the halls of residence that have been infested with bedbugs, the students have begun to share broadcasts as a clamour for the fumigation that hasn't been done using the social media.      The school management through the Division of Students' Affairs (DSA) , according to the letter written by the Students' Union executives, gave an excuse to justify the delay of the fumigation, saying " the halls have not been fumigated because of the presence of students writing projects, SWEP students, SIWES students and those undergoing their teaching - practice exercise. We told all the males to move to ETF hall of residence and females to Alumni hall of residence but they didn't respond. "      In response to the management's excuse, the Students' Union has resolved that all hostels must be fumigated before the resumption of returning students. Also, students have expressed their grievances...

Less than 48 hours ago, the Vice President of the Students Union shared with the Great students of Obafemi Awolowo University her reservation concerning Dr Ibk, SU President's transportation Scheme in a long epistle. In her long revealing statement which is framed on a conscience-smitten note, Emerald slams Dr Ibk's scheme which he revealed in an interview with ACJ President as "Wasteful spending and ill thought". She made a pellucid objection to this scheme by stating how it lacks effectiveness in the long-run. With her release, some would say there is fire in the building as this shows that both the President of the Students' Union and Vice President are having conflict of interest. During our course of investigation, the agency found out that some members of the CEC are in support of the aforementioned scheme (which proposes to get four buses for N12m to ease transportation) while some are indifferent. The questions now are : Is the President really p...