Posts

Showing posts with the label SRC

Great IFE SRC Holds Budget Sittings, Approves Over ₦1m Budget for the Office of the President

Image
Adeniran Tolulope The Great IFE Students Representatives Council, Friday, November 25, held its first sitting since the resumption of the students to campus and perhaps the inauguration of the members of the Students' Representatives Council at the Awo Cafe of the Obafemi Awolowo Hall of Residence.  During the sitting, a petition written by a former honorable member of the SRC from the faculty of Technology, Fawole Iyanuoluwa was read and passed on to the house but was countered and therefore scrapped. The petition had in statement that the Union Election should be held in the coming session, which initially was scheduled to be held at the end of the second semester of a session. The petition was made to allow IT Students and incoming Freshers of the next session to participate in the election.  Also, the Executives were called to the podium of the sitting to give reports on how the Fresher's week was done. The Budget and Finance Committee, through the Chairman, Hon Tun...

Great IFE SRC: A Debate Of Competency or Camouflage

Image
Adeniran Stephen In the heart of every Great IFE students, an undertone whisper of concern is beginning to tremble through the Students' Union. The esteemed Great Ife Students' Representative Council (SRC), entrusted with the responsibility of parliamentary proceedings, seems to be caught in a web of inaction.  The Sacrosanct Constitution of the Great IFE Students’ Union , in Article II, Section 10, subsection 3 states that “ the speaker shall summon the meetings of the SRC ”. This part of the constitution clearly state that the Speaker of the SRC is given the constitutional duty of calling for the Parliamentary sitting of the Great IFE Students' Representative Council.  Has the Speaker of the SRC, Rt . Honorable Ganiyu Yussuf forgotten his duty which is stated in the constitution as the Speaker to call for a parliamentary sitting?  In a situation whereby the Great Ife Students' Union Central Executives Council is trying its best to make sure that stude...