JLOeduconsult: May 2015

VC urges SUG members to be servant leaders

Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology

Akure, Ondo State, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola

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The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, has advised student leaders to endeavour to be servant leaders.

He made the appeal while inaugurating the Students Union Executive of the university.

Daramola, represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Development, Prof. Tolulope Akinbogun, urged them to see leadership as a process to influence others to accomplish set out objectives.

“The underlying principles here are service, character and teamwork. Do not let your position get into your heads. You must be humble and approach every situation with maturity. The character you display during your tenure will show the kind of persons you are. Strive to serve others, even as you lead,” he said.

The VC also promised that the university would reward the student leaders with local and international trainings.

“We have consistently been sponsoring student leaders to attend leadership training programmes within and outside Nigeria for the past six years. I believe your administration will not be an exception. This is part of our resolve to take FUTA and its products to a higher level of internationalisation in scholarship and excellence,” he said.

The Dean, Students’ Affairs, Dr. Kayode Alese, also advised them to give priority to the needs of other students.

“You must represent them and put aside personal gains. As leaders you must be up and doing. You must be responsible and exhibit leadership qualities at all times. You must be able to take decisions in the overall interest of not only the students’ populace but also the entire university community, “he said.

Alese, who restated the open door policy of the Students Affairs Division, urged the student leaders to always intimate the university management with their observations and challenges through his office.

Promising prompt response to their problems, he warned them against demonstrations and actions that can disrupt academic activities and elongate their stay on campus.

The SUG President, Fowobaje Oluwaseun, promised that they would ensure a crisis free tenure.

“We shall stand to uphold and uplift the integrity of the union by rebranding FUTA and ensuring peace and progress in running the affairs of this great institution.

“Our mission is to build a better union and to bring back respect to the organisation, to change the perspective of students about student unionism,” he stated.

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Stay away from Nigeria, NANS tells Jacob Zuma

The National Association of Nigerian Students has advised South African President, Jacob Zuma, to stay away from the inauguration of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

The organisation also threatened to storm the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, should Zuma step into the country’s airport.

According to the association, Zuma should keep off as his visit will be an insult to the sensibility of Nigerians over his alleged poor handling of the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other migrant foreigners in South Africa.

A statement by NANS President, Tijani Usman, noted that Zuma’s inability to “apologise to Nigerians like he did to Mozambique”, despite the sacrifices the country made for South Africa, was unfortunate.

He said, “We wish to advise the South African President (Jacob Zuma) to rather stay at home and address burning issues, rather than embarking on a visit that is the least desirable.

“The South African President’s failure to apologise to Nigeria for the losses the country and our citizens incurred during the xenophobic attacks on foreigners leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. There is therefore, no point felicitating with a people who clearly do not matter much to you. President Zuma’s visit will only amount to pretence.”

NANS further restated its earlier position that it will henceforth not hesitate to clamp down on South African investments in the country should any incident of xenophobic attacks recur.

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Nigeria's Ancient Secondary Schools READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/444344-nigerias-ancient-secondary-schools.html

Nigeria has thousands of secondary schools scattered all over the nook and crannies of the country. But many Nigerians might not be aware that some of these schools have been in existence even before their parents were born.
A Nigerian on Nigeria’s biggest online forum, Nairaland, with the moniker, PrinceDebola201 has compiled a list comprising 10 secondary schools that are the oldest in the country.
See them below:

1. CMS Grammar School, Lagos (1859)
2. Methodist Boys High School, Lagos (1878)
3. Methodist Girls High School, Lagos (1879)
4. Baptist Academy, Lagos : 1885
5. Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, is
established as Nigeria’s first east of the Niger
secondary school in 1895
6. The old Wesley college Elekuro now Wesley
college of science, Ibadan (1905), Methodist Boys’ High School, Oron (1905).
7. Abeokuta Grammar School, Ogun (1908)
8. Kings College , Lagos (1909)
9. Alhuda College, Zaria (1910)
10. Ijebu-Ode Grammar School, Ogun (1913), Eko Boys High School, Lagos (1913).
The schools listed above are very popular in the country as they are controlled by the federal government and have a large population of students and Alma-mater, with some of their associations becoming influential in the country because of the calibre of men and in some cases, women that graduate from the schools.
In those days, students who gain admission into these schools see it as a privilege because they were the best schools in town are were very strict in admitting students. But unfortunately, some of these schools, if not all of them, are living in past glories.
Many of them do not have the same kind of teachers and teaching facilities that made them to be the choice schools back then.
Instead what we have now are expensive, private and well-managed schools, dictating the pace in the Nigerian educational sector while their counterparts owned by and manged by the government are starved of funds.
It is important for the government to pump more funds into these schools to keep them running and enable them compete with the private-owned schools and ultimately bring back the glory days so that they can be the once attractive schools they were in the past.

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