OAU Kilonshele News Outfit

Olabode Oluwafemi With a 4.89 CGPA, Ohanekwu Favour Ebuka emerged as the overall best graduating student of Obafemi Awolowo University in the just-concluded convocation. In this exclusive interview with OAU Kilonshele, the Electronic & Electrical Engineering graduate talked about his journey in school - the step he took to achieve this feat, among other things.  Q: was Electronic Electrical Engineering your choice right from the start ? Ans : yes, I have always loved Electronic and Electrical Engineering. It's a field that piqued my interest at a very young age. Q: same thing with OAU as as well? Ans : not really. My elder brother was solely behind that choice.   Q: ever think you were going to emerge as the best graduating student ? Ans : I wasn't particularly expecting it. Coming to OAU, my goal was to graduate with a first-class and a good CGPA. Q: how did you feel when you realised there was the probability of you emerging as the best graduating student and even w...

  Source:  FIJ Timothy Adegoke, the MBA student at Obafemii Awololowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, who was declared missing on November 7, is dead, FIJ can report. According to a statement signed and made available to FIJ by Opalola Yemisi Olawoyin, the spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, the police said it was working to unravel the circumstances surrounding Adegoke’s death. “The Commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Olokode, psc, wishes to assure the general public, especially the family of the deceased, students and management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, that the police command is working assiduously to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Timothy Adegoke, a master’s degree student of OAU who came from Abuja to sit for his examination at the OAU distance learning centre, Moro, Osun State,” the statement reads. “It would be recalled that, a case of missing person was reported on 7th November, 2021 at about 1630hrs, at Edun Abon polic...

Olabode Oluwafemi OAU Senate held emergency meeting with respect to the official letter released at the early hours of Tuesday citing in its agendum "Situation On Campus". As earlier known, OAU students on Nigeria's 61st Independence day celebration, wage to protest against the role of negligence played by the University health center which resulted to death of Adesina Aishat Omowumi, a student of the Department of Foreign Language, after being referred to Seventh-day Adventist Hospital. The demonstration which lasted for 10 consecutive hours held Ife-Ibadan and Ife-Ede Highway under blockage. OAU Senate, on Tuesday evening, expressed its displeasure towards the protest carried out by students and further commended the school management for taking "proactive decision" by suspending students activities, stressing that "precious lives could have been lost if action had been delayed." Consequently, it was  also in support of the vacation of students from ...

A final year student of Foreign Language, Obafemi Awolowo University, Adesina Aisha Omowunmi, died on Thursday evening from a brief illness after she was neglected at the university health centre OAU Kilonshele learnt from a fellow student that Wunmi was seriously sick and was rushed to the university's health centre. At the university's health centre, Wunmi was given malaria drugs and ulcer medication when she complained of shortness of breath. After complaints from colleagues, she was referred to Seventh-day Adventist hospital without a referral letter or any acknowledgment means. She was pronounced dead at Seventh-day Adventist We learnt that health centre feigned ignorance after the death and didn't even want to release ambulance to transport the dead body Negligence by health centre killed a Microbiology student in 2019. The late student slumped and was having breathing difficulty. When they got to health centre, he was given drip before his death. Health centre also t...

Olabode Oluwafemi  The Federation of Ibadan Students' Union, Obafemi Awolowo University,  (FIBSU), under the administration presided  by Ajani Oluwakayode Jamiu - held its event tagged 'Amala Day & Award Ceremony' in honour of the Dean of Students' Affairs OAU, Prof. Isiaka Olalekan Aransi, at Ajose lecture theatre on Thursday, 16th September 2021. The ceremony which started at the early hours of the day had in attendance, the chief honoree, Dean of Students' Affairs, Prof. Isiaka Olalekan Aransi - Chairperson of the day, Prof. Olubola Babalola  represented by Engr. Alao - the guest speaker, an associate professor in the department of building - Dr Akeem Wahab and Mr. Bukola Omotoso. Also in attendance was the Great Ife Students' Union President-elect, "Reform" and "Great Sam," the incoming Secretary-General. The chairperson of the occasion represented by Engr. Alao in his welcome address felicitates the Union. He charged the students to ...

Press Release Azeezat Adekanye also know as ZEE, a member of the National Association of Political Science Students OAU chapter, met with lecturers and staffs to discuss the challenging academic lives of all students in the department of political science, OAU. Speaking with the leadership of the department, Adekanye briefed about academic challenges of students in the department to the lecturers and staffs. Adekanye maintained in the interactive session that the main course driving her visit to the leadership of the department was strictly to find a way to quickly address the distresses of  students who have one academic problems or the other, from level one (part 1) to the final level (part 4) in the department. This is strictly in the interest of all students, she maintained. Reacting to the move - the leadership of the department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, gave the assurance to be readily available to the course of all students who have challenge...

Peter Oyebanji Yesterday, the students' union electoral debate went down at Oduduwa hall and well, nothing unusual and unexpected happened. OAU students do what they do best - turn up, show consciousness, and not listen because who cares about what you have to say when we all have a pre-determined candidate. However, I actually listened - so you can trust the review.  Office Of The Financial Secretary  Three candidates are contesting for the office of the Financial Secretary - Perolexy, Yusolat, and Legbeti. For this position, only one candidate made his presence known in the debate. I don't know if it was the crowd factor or the accounting factor, but Legbeti dominated the debate. The disappointing thing here was that Legbeti did not dominate the debate because he was exceptional, the other candidates just didn't have a clue of what they were supposed to do and how they should have answered the questions. It was probably the second most one-sided contest in the debate, the...

Oluwajuedalo, a part 4 student of Law, has withdrawn from the forthcoming students' union election after failing to meet up with the 2.5 CGPA requirement specified by the electoral commission. In a statement released by the movement, they apologized to supporters and they promised to create a platform where the contestant can answer questions on issues surrounding the withdrawal. Oluwajuedalo's movement also accused the management and pro-management groups of orchestrating their downfall. "The agenda we were bringing was one that would take the proverbial food from the table of political pensioners, and professional student leaders. It was an agenda that was ready to use dialogue and negotiation, but not afraid to enter confrontation, and those who have given us our union back, those who seized it in the first place, those people who do not like confrontation. Naturally, they launched into attacks, raised opposition against us from within and without, they did everything i...

Olabode Oluwafemi Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, held its welcome party  for Fresh students after series of constraints that emanated from the pandemic which kept academics and other activities on hold across the globe. The event which was on Monday, 23rd August 2021, held at Pit Theatre featuring some OAU campus celebrities - AY Santos, Mar Kay. Also, it featured pageantry show for Mr and Miss Pol with 4 contestants - 2 males and 2 females. The contestants were given opportunity to showcase their talents on the stage performance. Fasasi Yusuf Breyno and Adebanjo Tioluwanimi emerged as winners of Mr & Miss Political Science for 2019/2020 academics session. In an interview segment with the two winners they expressed their pleasure. "I feel honored and grateful even though I wasn't an expectant of this," said Tioluwanimi, the newly emerged Miss Political Science. While according to Breyno, the pageantry contestant winner for Mr Pol, "I...

  Olabode Oluwafemi The body of OAU students' union electoral commission chaired by Ajayi Oluwafemi, popularly known as FM Castro, held a conference with OAU press men (ACJ OAU) on Saturday morning as regards the fast approaching students' union election.  The election, which is getting competitive with high number of turn up of aspirants, will hold as already stipulated on the unveiled electoral calendar: HEC election - Saturday, August 28th. CEC election - Wednesday, September 1st. SRC election- Thursday, September 2nd. SRC leadership election - Thursday September 9th. Each faculty allocated with SRC seats:  Arts 13, Education 13, Social Sciences 13, Law 12, EDM 13, Pharmacy 13, Sciences 13, Agriculture 13, Dentistry 5, and others, all summed up to 150 seats. According to the chairman, FM Castro, the election will hold as scheduled except for the date for submission of candidates' form which has been changed in the new release as there is need for ready availability of ...

OAU Kilonshele Efem Castro, Electoral Chairman The  Electoral Chairman of Obafemi Awolowo University Students' Union, Efem Castro, violated congressional rules in Wednesday's congress when he moved against the congress and made a decision without any congressional input.  The main purpose of Wednesday's congress was to lift the electoral ban - however, during the congress, issues on restrictions that will be placed on contestants were raised. In recent elections, there had been a minimum requirement of 2.5 CGPA to contest for any position in the Students' union. This restriction is not constitutional and this platform learnt that the requirement is also not traditional. According to the electoral chairman, this requirement was brought up by the school management for a political purpose.  The first five submissions given regarding this issue all called for the requirement to be eradicated. Subsequent submissions, some made by members of the electoral commission, called f...

Olabode Oluwafemi Association of campus Journalists, Obafemi Awolowo University,  inducted its new members on Saturday in a ceremony that was pervaded with knowledge.   The event which commenced by 10:30am was attended by stakeholders, members and the inductees. The event took place in the Faculty of Administration's post-graduate lecture room.   The inductee were put through the fundamentals and ethics of Journalism by experienced speakers. Adejumo Kabir- a renowned multiple award winning journalist, Ismail Taiwo - media practitioner, publisher of Oduduwa News, and Wasiu Ajadosu- Chairman NUJ Osun State chapter represented by the chapter's secretary - Nikola Elufadejin, all brimmed the new members.   Adejumo Kabir- an alumnus of the association and OAU shared with inductees his experiences and challenges as student journalist. He furthered in the interactive session by making reference to George Orwell's definition of Journalism "Journalism is printin...

OAU Kilonshele The electoral commission tasked with organizing the election of Obafemi Awolowo University just-reinstated Students' Union made one of its members the head of the security committee, a move it claimed is based on precedence. In the congress held on the 15th of July, the electoral commission brought up the need to have a security committee. Congressmen assented, nominated security members, and gave the electoral commission the right to screen and ratify the committee. However, that was the extent of the congress decision.  OAU Kilonshele learned that the commission did all these and then made TeePaul, one of its members the head of the committee. This selection was not discussed in the congress and has generated criticism from some quarters. The decision is also not constitutionally backed but neither are the majority of the decisions that have been made since the reinstatement of the union. Although, the current climate is an unusual one and not specifically provided...