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Pandemonium at Apete Area of Ibadan resurfaced on The Polytechnic Ibadan campus on Tuesday morning as students struggled to escape for their dear lives. According to report the Fracas which halted the academic activities on the campus was due to clash between some Cult members on Monday Night at the Apete axis of the  community,which claimed a life.  Acadawaka Correspondent JAMES ODEDIRAN while speaking from the campus reported that security officials are already on ground to bring normalcy on the institution. As at the time of filling in this report, All efforts to get in touch with the schools Public relations officer has proved abortive . We will update you as event unfolds from the campus. 

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP), the Polytechnic, Ibadan chapter has joined the Non Academic Staff Union of the institution in the ongoing strike to protest the poor welfare of workers. SANNIP Chairman at the institution, Mr AKINOLA GBENGA, confirmed this during an interview with Acadawaka Correspondent, JAMES ODEDIRAN. He however noted that the Academic Staff Union of the institution will not be part of the strike as it has a case in court. Recall that the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, commenced an industrial action earlier this month over their eight months unpaid arrears by the Oyo State government. AKINOLA SSANIP JOIN The decision is as the same as NASSU its only that we are thinking that the management will change their decision on payment and non-payment of salary arrears for almost April last year to September Last year. After this week by next week, and don’t pay us, I think we are go...

A Male lecturer of the Federal College of Agriculture Moore Plantation Apata Ibadan, Engineer David Aremu has been placed on admission at the University Teaching Hospital #Uch Ibadan after he collapsed before an investigation on Thursday evening.  Engineer Aremu was last week Saturday exposed by some students of the institution on a Yoruba Radio program in Ibadan about his Sexual harassment act on male students and extortion of other students thereby threatening of failing them.  The School's management on Monday however released a statement of not being aware of the lecturer’s atrocities, but promised to set up a panel to investigate on the matter.  The panel continues its investigation this Monday. Acadawaka will keep you updated as the event Unfolds ! Sexual harassment case has been a rampant one on Nigerian institutions with the recent sacking of Prof.Richard Akindele from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-ife , Osun State. ...

Staff of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, Ondo State,   are threatening to go on strike after being owed nine months salary. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) said its members could no longer work under the present condition, asking state Governor ROTIMI AKEREDOLU to come to their rescue. ASUP Chairman Comrade RAFIU IJAWOYE in an interview with news men revealed that the academic staff members of the institution had been going to classrooms on empty stomachs and deploring   a June 28 memo issued by management,  apologising for the delay in the payment of June salaries. He also condemned a statement credited to the Governing Council Chairman, Mr Banji Alabi,  that all workers’ salaries had been paid up to May 2018. Ijawoye said the union would meet to discuss the next line of action if the school failed to pay them.

Six Hundred and Two (632) students have graduated from Benson Idahosa University Benin city, Edo state with Forty nine of them bagging a First Class degree. Vice Chancellor of the institution , Prof .SAM   GUOBADIA while speaking during the 14 th convocation ceremony of the school revealed that out the Eighty Four   (84 )Students   graduated with Second Class (Upper Division) , Three Hundred and Eighteen (318 )second class ( Lower Division), while Fifty Two (52) students bagged a third class   degree . The institution also conferred 60 masters degree, 38 post-Graduate and 1 Doctorate degrees honours on some of the grandaunts.

Report says a 200- level female student of Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto disrupted Mathematics lecture after a strange display of action.   According to report, the undergraduate lady was said to have been possessed by evil spirit with her strange behaviour The scary display at the PTF Lecture Hall of the campus according to information saw some of her colleagues round her up, while some students were reciting Arabic Verses instead of taking her to the school clinic as she later regained consciousness. Information on campus had it that the lady was possessed by evil spirit

Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye and Tai Solarin University of Education  (TASUED), Ijagun in Ogun State have all fixed dates for the screening exercise for candidates to be admitted for 2018/2019 academic year. According to reports , the OOU screening will hold from Monday 30th July to Friday 3rd August, 2018 while that of TASUED is fixed for 24th July, 2018. Applicants eligible for OOU admission include UTME candidates that picked and did not pick the University with a minimum score of 180 in the UTME examination and also Direct Entry candidates with A level results and diploma certificate that applied for the entry through JAMB into the University with a minimum of Upper credit. Eligible candidates for the university should visit the admission website http://portal.oouagoiwoye.edu.ng/application/apply.php and make a payment of N2000 For TASUED eligible applicants includes UTME candidates who chose the institution as their first or second ...