OAU Kilonshele News Outfit

Politics has been perceived to be a game of age and experience in Nigeria. The general sentiments favored the participation of the older generation; they were perceived to understand the intricacies of the game. The 2023 General elections, however, triggered a paradigm shift, or rather, a mental and ideological shift. It ignited the political consciousness of young Nigerians and made them actively participate in the electoral process.  Now, young Nigerians stay up all night during parties’ primary elections, glued to their phone screens, monitoring electioneering processes across the country, and actively campaigning for political candidates of their choice. Most importantly, they were out in large amount of numbers to exercise their franchise.  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) estimated in January that students made up the largest category of voters. They represented 27.8 percent of all registered voters by occupational distribution. Most importantly, whe...

  Just like tales of every end of an academic calendar, session and semester also a moment of running "kiti-kiti kete-kete" for the political figures, it's another phase in the political encyclopedia of the Great Ife Students' Union and moreso an era that will pave way for the decision of Great Ife Students for another session of unionism. Interestingly, as we gravitate toward the Students' Union election the political atmosphere is gradually attaining climax. A period the students' electorate easily gets consumed by gimmicks of the incumbents even at the sight of their atrocities which played out in a press statement disbursed couple of hours ago from Office of the Students' Union Welfare Director termed "welfare package" securing 5000 loaves of bread to be accompanied with beans cake [àkàrà] for OAU students. While there are numerous pressing edifiable programmes meant to promote students' welfare that has been absconded by the office like ...

 OAU KILONSHELE   As we are aware that the students' union had its congress on Wednesday, which happens to be the first of its kind since the reinstatement of the Union after five years of prescription. The venue appears to be soaked in gross turbulence as majority of the students were seen protesting some actions of the President, Olayiwola Folahan at the congress. Such that, even Mr. President could not resist the chaotic scene as he escaped the venue devising the marathon means.  The new page doesn't seem to correspond with expectations of the average Great Ife Students as they were overjoyed, thinking reform-ation has come to their deformities, that salvation has come while they mount the hill of Arafa-t but it blatantly appears the union leadership is more centered in proving who is more capacitated through thwarting power to achieve their selfish interest than rather hold their fellow students' interest and welfare in esteem.  The Students Representative Counci...

Olabode Oluwafemi   Great Ife SU holds congress amidst turbulence.  Acclaimed suspended SRC Speaker forged ahead with plenary session as OAU security storms venue.  Student reporter got harassed The Great Ife Students' Union held its first-ever congress since its inauguration on Wednesday evening at the Afrika Amphitheater. The atmosphere was puffed with a series of heated arguments and turbulence by congressmen as it appeared not peaceful. The commotion began when the students' union President, Olayiwola Folahan absconded from recognizing a congressman identified as Sumbade Jnr also an honorable member of the Great Ife SRC chanting "security alert". The congress venue which was seen pervaded by security men identified as 'Man O War' was protested against by the students as they claimed it to be against the customs and traditions of the union.  It subsequently appears to be the allocation of a bar at the renovated Ken Saro Wiwa students' union building sp...

[Picture used to illustrate robbery attack] One can’t feign ignorance of the recent threats to security of lives and properties in Ile-Ife environs, particularly in the student-dominated places, except one wants to be a hypocrite. Students and residents of these robbers’ den cannot sleep with their two eyes closed for the fear of being burgled or losing their lives to the attack. With the foregoing, the authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, with 72% of her students living off-campus, seems to be unconcerned even after losing a student to a robbery attack few weeks ago. The fact that the school has lost more students to insecurity in 2018 than it has done in the last 4 years is worrisome and it should not be taken with a pinch of salt. Ranging from the death of one Mr. Omoboriowo at New Bukka to the murder of Mr. Babatope at Adam and Eve, a hostel facility outside campus. On several occasions and at different times, top officers of the university have promised that the...