OAU Kilonshele News Outfit

 Olabode Oluwafemi OAU as the renowned most beautiful campus in Africa is not limited to the elegance of its structures. Even the occupants that range from vendors to students to lecturers contribute a significant aura to the greatness Great Ife displays. The institution has a great set of lecturers that constitutes varieties of characters. While all Great Ife students may admit that all OAU lecturers are brilliant-minded with vast knowledge in their chosen field, likewise we may not come to term that it applies to their individual personalities and characters.  Here are 8 types of lecturers you can find in OAU. Read through to check the category some of your lecturers fall under. 1. THE DISCIPLINARIANS There is no department in OAU without one or two of this category of lecturers. They don’t tolerate nonsense at all and are known for setting 'unbent' rules. You dare not attend their class behind schedule or even contemplate missing their lectures especially if it’s a core or ...

  Olabode Oluwafemi The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began a meeting yesterday to decide on whether to roll over its six-month strike or call it off. The crucial NEC parley, which reportedly started at 4 pm, was expected to end at midnight. Recall the union commenced the nationwide industrial action on February 14, 2022, and has extended it several times due to its inability to reach a substantial agreement with the federal government. On August 1, 2022, ASUU announced another extension of the strike by four weeks. It was gathered that parents and students are keeping their ears open to the outcome of the striking lecturers. On social media where many have aired their opinions, they appealed to the university teachers to give peace a chance, resume dialogue with the Federal Government, and return to classrooms. However, a final decision on whether to call off the strike or extend it is expected to be announced this morning. Various A...

 Miracle Elvis Ifesinachi THE GIFT OF LOVE THAT HAS LINGERED TOO LONG On the 14th of February this year, the Academic Staff Union of Universities gave students of federal Universities and many state universities across the nation Valentine's day gift that now seems to have lingered too long: A strike action. The word strike has gained ubiquity across the Nigerian media space and this is for no vague reasons. From ASUU's request for salary arrears to NUBIFE's demand for better working conditions for her employees, we have seen and are seeing almost every public institution in Nigeria lockout but we are not emphasising the implications of these actions enough. Sadly so, Nigeria's Labour Congress went on a two-day solidarity strike for ASUU's demands. The President of the Congress, Mr. Ayubaa Wabba, quite sympathetically announced his concerns for the future of the Nigerian students thus the strike action.  Quite Noble! Perhaps, another gift of love. THE LOVE PARTY I...

Damola Badmos   Today, Friday 12th August 2022, marks exactly a week after the release of the third studio album of renowned OAU English graduate, Adedamola Adefolahan, popularly known by his stage name as Fireboy DML. This project titled PLAYBOY is a 14-track album with hits upon hits, featuring the ‘disturbance of the last year festive season’ titled Peru. In this article, we will be dissecting the album in review as well as discussing the ‘Doings of a Fire Boy.’ To me, a Fire Boy is a Whiz in what he does. The 26-year-old Ogun State-born award-winning artiste is signed to top Nigerian artiste Olamide’s YBNL record label as well as foreign-based Empire label. He has featured with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Olamide, D Smoke, Wande Coal, Rema, Chris Brown, Euro, and fast-rising act Asake. The OAU graduate has been opportune to shut down and perform at renowned arenas all over the world, with a protective fan base that rallies around him on social media platforms. The Passenger-inspir...

Miracle Elvis   The million birds across OAU sky are nowhere to be found. One of the many things you find remarkable coming into OAU is the bats. Fondly, students say that a bat represents one student on the OAU campus. Personally, I named one after me and sometimes scream up at the sky and imagine it (the bat) soaring down at me. It never has though. But, recently the bats have gone missing, and it comes as a question of surprise. Where have they gone? In finding answers to the above, a few students gave their opinions. Some say it's the incessant rainfall these days. However, people argue that in the past even in rainy times like this, the bats were still very around. More interestingly, another group of people says it the evidence of revival on the campus. Quite 'very-spiritual' students on campus opined that the bats have spiritual representations which aren't good for the campus, the rise of spiritual revival on campus has led to their extermination. The last group...

Olatunde Olawale As hope rises alive to the great news expected to be announced at the end of the prolonged ASUU strike, many meetings and negotiations continue to hit rock bottom as an amiable agreement seems to not see the daylight. The heat of the strike seemed to hit the right spot as the NLC concluded its 2-day nationwide protest recently and threatened to go on a strike of its own if tangible solutions were not proffered in two weeks after the protest, in support of the embittered university workers and students. It is already two weeks and no solution seems to be in place. We are not putting our tongue under our lips by saying our country Nigeria is at a war greater than herself as it battles unseen but prevailing enemies of the states. Bad enough, the tertiary institution is not the only sector that has been affected by this cruel hand of war. The cost of living for an average citizen has tripled, the PMS Price was also increased and the inflation rate has hit double-digits. Th...

  Erstwhile Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede   President Muhammadu Buhari recently gave a 2-weeks ultimatum, which has since expired, for the negotiating parties to resolve the Federal Government-ASUU imbroglio. Some of us who had been in the educational sector long enough and had witnessed the aberrations knew it was a tall order and more fittingly, an impossible condition. This is not because the matter cannot be resolved in less than two weeks but because it was clearly discernible that the parties involved and other stakeholders in university education have not been telling ourselves the bitter truth. The closest to uprightness was the statement by the Honourable Minister of Labour that the Federal Government does not have the funds to meet its obligations in the agreement signed with the Unions, and that the country is broke. How else can one explain a 2009 agreement that is still begging for implementation in 2022? What is...

 Damola Badmos The Debut single, from Dr. T. Olatoberu of the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management The OAU student community, on the night of Friday 5th August 2022, was thrown into a frenzy of excitement and pun following the release of a mysterious link on the WhatsApp platform.  This link, when followed by OAU Kilonshele, led to a YouTube video with a 5-minute recording of a song believed to have emanated from the camp of a lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.  Investigations were made and it was discovered that the lecturer known as Dr. T. Olatoberu is an active academic staff from the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management. Further findings by OAU Kilonshele were made to make this fact credible as the image and details of the YouTube account handle were traced to the university staff portal and a correlation with the details provided was discovered.  As the ongoing ASUU strike enters its 6th month on a 'No work' ...

A 200-level student of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Raji Rasheed Oladimeji has been confirmed dead at the OAU Teaching Hospital after battling cardiac arrest on Tuesday afternoon. Speaking with a friend of the deceased also an eyewitness via a telephone conversation, OAU Kilonshele gathered that Dimeji, who has been complaining of breath difficulty, was diagnosed at the beginning of the year 2022, also has been going for a regular check-up with the intake of his prescribed medication. Until today, the situation went haywire as he was rushed to the emergency unit in OAU Teaching Hospital where he was later confirmed dead. May his soul rest in peace.