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THE Acting Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, Mrs Clara Dennar, has urged new students of the institution to see their admission as a privilege, which could be withdrawn if they breach the oaths of their studentship.

She said this last week at the first matriculation the institute held after her promotion as its helmsman over three months ago.

During the event, which was attended by key management staff and old students of the over 30-year-old institution, 770 students, made up of 390 National Diploma (ND) and 380 Higher National Diploma (HND) students, were inducted.

Dennar advised the new students to shun vices as drug abuse and exam misconduct, warning that offenders would be severely dealt with.

She said: “We, therefore, expect high level of decency as the older students have amply demonstrated that the business of PTI is scholarship. I you ignore this timely advice, you are likely to be shown the way out.’’

She said the process of their admission was rigorous but transparent. She advised them to be focused and hardworking, adding that there is no shortcut to success.

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The Federal University of Technology, Akure Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) has been inaugurated.

Inaugurating the Chapter, the National President and Chairman of Council, Dr. (Mrs) Sally Bolujoko blamed the presentsituation of the country on lack of proper management on the part of the country’s leaders.

She stated that Nigeria needed re-orientation of her citizens to ensure that all were working for a common goal of development.

Dr. (Mrs) Sally, while describing Nigerian Professors as the custodians of the knowledge needed to heal the country, urged them to come up with researches that would allow Nigeria to be run with facts and figures saying no nation can develop without research.

The Registrar of the university, Dr. (Mrs) E. F. Oyebade, while delivering the Inauguration Lecture titled The ever-changing world of Management Techniques in Higher Education: A Plus or Minus, described management as the totality of the activities of a manager that involves planning, organising, staffing, directing, co-ordinating and reporting, as well as budgeting.

She said that it was the responsibility of management to device ways to observe and identify activities, procedures, behaviours and techniques that would aid the achievement of goals in individual establishments.

Oyebade therefore opined that changing management techniques was a plus as responsible management could not afford to keep on applying the same techniques even in the face of changing activities, practices and behaviour.

Also, in his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor and Chairman of the occasion, Professor Adebisi Balogun commended the executives of the institute, both the present and the past, for preaching management as the solution to the problem of the country.

Represented by his Deputy in charge of Academic, Professor Debo Adeyewa, Professor Balogun maintained that the knowledge of management as a veritable tool of development prompted the university to establish School of Management Technology to groom minds capable of taking management beyond managing Naira and Kobo, but also technological and scientific inventions.

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The University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) will now house its Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice – Chancellors and some of its professors within the university campus not only to enhance quality teachers – students relationship, but also for effective coordination of the institution’s activity towards optimal performance in service delivery.

The Vice – Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Olaiya Balogun, said this as he led principal officers and council members of the university to inspect the level of work that has been put into its building projects to address the accommodation needs of both students and teachers of the more than 20 years old institution.

Balogun said the buildings which would rest on a land space of about 1,800 feet by 600 feet, are bein financed through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) which he added would gulp to the tune of about N400m.

“Three projects are so dear to us. We are planning of moving the Pro-Chancellor, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor from the town to the campus. I believe that both furnishing and everything would cost as much as N400m. So any Vice-Chancellor that is misbehaving, the students have the opportunity of caging him. It would be about 1,800 feet by 600 feet,” he said.

The Vice-Chancellor also told the inspection team consisting the Pro- Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Chief Olakunle Oshiyemi, that Speaker Dimeji Bankole, has donated N178m administrative building that would accommodate about 260 members of staff to the university .

Apart from the quarters, other ongoing projects the team visited were a 2,500-capacity auditorium, the International Scholars and Exchange Programme Centre, the Post Graduate School, the Farm Centre and the College of Food Science and Human Ecology (COLFHEC) which are various stages of completion.

Others include a 500-capacity central computer laboratory, the College of Environment Resources Management (COLERM), an Agro-Market as well as the Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research Building (IFSERAR).

Oshiyemi expressed satisfaction with what the team saw on site and advised that implementation of the projects should be taken seriously.

“We are very satisfied with what we have seen. It is one thing to approve projects; it is another thing for them to be implemented. That is why we have come, we don’t want to just satisfy our self with report we see on their paper. We want to see that the reports they give us are true and fair view of the things on the ground. And so far so good, we are satisfied,” he said.

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The strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Imo State University (IMSU) Chapter, has been suspended temporarily for three weeks. This is to allow for the implementation of the 2009 Agreement by the state government, as agreed by the both parties.

The Imo State Chairman of the union, Dr. Vitalis Nwulu, disclosed this while addressing reporters in the presence of other members on the IMSU (the university has been renamed Evans Enwerem University) campus.

Nwulu said the decision to suspend the strike for three weeks was to see whether the proprietors of the university, the Imo State government would leave up to its promise to implement the 2009 Government/ASUU agreement.

He revealed that the agreement which centres on adequate funding to enable the institution function effectively and give students a conducive environment for learning, was expected to take effect from July last year. He however regretted that the government has not been able to fulfill its part of the agreement.

He said both parties agreed that the implementation would start with effect from last month only for some lecturers to confirm that their November salaries were paid with the old rate.

Dr. Nwulu confirmed that the three weeks’ time of grace is to watch the proprietors of the university if they would respect the agreement as promised this December.

The ASUU chairman said that they would resume work by attending to their official duties from yesterday and if on or before 10th of January 2011 they receive the agreement emolument, then they would resume full blown official duties and lectures, but otherwise, they would set aside the suspension and continue the action.

Nwulu said they agreed to suspend the strike to show that they are not selfish, but are striving to save the university system. He saiad they had every reason to doubt the government going by the agreements they both reached in 2008, 2009 and early 2010, which were never kept.

He confirmed that the agreement was signed by the Federal Government and the ASUU central body and the branches have to see to the implementation at their various States. He further said that it would be unfair to have disparity in paying staff salaries, people who have the same qualifications, only that they are employed by different universities.

The ASUU boss praised the courage of the State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim for his marginality in accepting to implement the 2009 bargain.

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The Ebonyi State Government has gone to court over the continued strike by teachers of the state university. The governments through the management of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) instituted the suit against the Academy Staff Union of University (ASUU) and its sister union in the university.

The case is pending at the National Industrial Court (NIC).

At a press briefing last week in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State Commissioner for Justice Mr Josy Eze and the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Martin Elechi, Dr Onyekachi Eni, said that the decision to drag ASUU to court was to compel members of the union to resume work.

Eze who said the court action was instituted against ASUU national with the EBSU chapter as co-defendant following its recalcitrance and unco-operative attitude towards the peaceful resolution of the industrial dispute.

Eze said:”I wish to inform you that the action is instituted against ASUU National with EBSU ASUU as co-defendants. By this action, we are seeking to restrain ASUU from continuing the strike and compel it to resume work”

“Regrettably, in spite of the gesture of the government borne out of its desire to enhance industrial harmony and further its commitment to education, ASUU rejected the offer and insisted that Ebonyi state government must pay them CONUASS 111 which it agreed with the Federal Government last year,” He said the state government was not privy to the agreement between ASUU and the Federal Government and as such not bound by the agreement, adding that ASUU did not follow due procedure in embarking on the industrial action.

He however said that the court action would not forestall room for negotiation between the ASUU EBSU and the state government stressing the need for quick resolution of the dispute to enable students return to classes.

In the same vein, Dr. Eni also said that the industrial action by the Southeast zone of the union seems politically motivated.

Eni queried why it is only in the Southeast zone that ASUU embarked on a joint strike even when there are many other state universities that are not implementing the said agreement. He added that the industrial action was borne out of personal frustration of some ASUU leaders.

Eni said “The industrial action is ill-motivated because it fails to appreciate the pride of place which Ebonyi State government places on education on account of which, in the Southeast zone, it gives the highest monthly subvention of N120 million to EBSU”.

He added that despite the strike, Governor Elechi has insisted that all the staff of the university should continue to receive their salaries as at when due. He said nobody in the institution is being owed since the commencement of the strike in July.

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