Omonoba1:
OAU students are just attacking the guy instead of analyzing the points he raised..na wa
o

bro, I expected you to have talked better than this. we all know that no matter how valuable something is , it will still have some imperfections. I don't deny all he said about OAU cause other universities too have their odd sides, but what you should reason is that how will someone in his normal state come out , sit down and start to make up a writing to defame his university. was he blind before throughout his stay in OAU?, reason bro.
from his write up , one should deduce that he is a frustrated fellow , indeed a disgrace to OAU.
#greatIFE

see this pathetic being.... if ur rating were as true as u think... then other Nigerian university are worse
OAU won't maintain top 3 in Nigeria if it wasn't one of the best....

While I still try to figure out the essence of this post from the OPs viewpoint I need to state these few points, i would implore my readers to note that i graduated from OAU 15years ago...

1. The OP is right in some instances and wrong in others. The point about the Halls of residence is 150% true. If it was true as at 15 years ago, I know it would be even more true today.

2. The pre eminence of strikes and Alutas in resolving simple issues is alarming, but my best memories are spread across these events.

3. On graduates fresh or no fresh having a good chance out there... I would say it depends on the person. I worked in 3 organisations and became the functional Head of my role in one of Nigeria's leading conglomerates and OAU grads made up the largest chunk of the workforce of all places I worked in.

4. The Ife solidarity is unrivalled anywhere I have ever been eveb outside the shores of Nigeria. From my NYSC days from Obubra camp, Cross River state I knew I was in good company, there were 1,456 corps members and only 42 from Ife. Through solidarity, we all got good placements for POP and had 5 awardees on passing out parade day.

5. Every institution has their traditions, norms and processes that are peculiar and unique to them. Ife computes it CGPA differently from other schools. It should be noted that during the freshman orientation course, everything that need to be known is explained to jambites and there are course advisers allocated to all fresh students to break things down for anyone who wants more information. Computing an F or otherwise has a direct impact on your CGPA, True! But its OAU's tradition to do that and if you decide on the school take that fact.

6. OAU is large, yes! But there are buses who go from the Mozambique/Angola/Awo Extension to SUB enroute road 1 to town and motor bikes who can take you almost anywhere except staff quarters. Its not a medieval campus where all you do is trek and walk. Choosing to walk to lectures isn't the school's making. Therefore the OP is wrong to paint a picture of tiredness in lecture halls... Haba! Fear God. Lack of facilities and amenities affect all Nigerian universities. Even private universities where parents pay through their noses aren't left out. So cut out the criticism here. Inadequate funding is the bane of the Nigerian Educational sector.

7. OAU is beautiful! Well, maybe the structures around academics and the beautifully lit streets but beauty lies in the eye of the looker. I have seen more beautiful schools... However not in naija. I feel the OAU management needs to do more to preserve the legacy of the southwest's cocoa era. Also, OAU needs at least 7 more halls of residence. It doesn't require rocket science knowledge. An involvement of the private sector where halls can be built as investment vehicles should be welcome. As a member of my faculty alumni council, I have made more visits to the school since graduation than most of my mates and I must tell my readers that I appreciate the school more now than when I was a student. I have a ward now in UI and I must confess that I regret not having her in OAU. Not because UI is not equally good, but just because of the sentiments.

As a father, I would not want my kids having their university education here in Naija because our degrees mean next to nothing outside of our shores. But if push comes to shove, my kids know that they have only one choice of University here and its OAU. I would stop for now. Reactions are welcome. However dear OP, your views are respected but I dare say aren't a full representation of what obtains. God bless you.

Pardon the typos if any.

Be debating OAU being the best university or not there. Meanwhile the joblessness that is awaiting you after school is still doing press up. Wehdone.

What is the full name of OAU please?

I respect your opinion on everything you have written down.

I'm in no way a frustrated being.
I only want kids viewing Nairaland to have a clear picture of what they are getting into.

Before I wrote my thread, I read someones else's
He hyped OAU
Saying everything positive about it
Leaving out all the cons, I think that's unfortunate.

So I just wrote this down, so young people thinking about OAU would have a clean cut picture of both sides before making a decision.

seunspice:
While I still try to figure out the essence of this post from the OPs viewpoint I need to state these few points, i would implore my readers to note that i graduated from OAU 15years ago...

1. The OP is right in some instances and wrong in others. The point about the Halls of residence is 150% true. If it was true as at 15 years ago, I know it would be even more true today.

2. The pre eminence of strikes and Alutas in resolving simple issues is alarming, but my best memories are spread across these events.

3. On graduates fresh or no fresh having a good chance out there... I would say it depends on the person. I worked in 3 organisations and became the functional Head of my role in one of Nigeria's leading conglomerates and OAU grads made up the largest chunk of the workforce of all places I worked in.

4. The Ife solidarity is unrivalled anywhere I have ever been eveb outside the shores of Nigeria. From my NYSC days from Obubra camp, Cross River state I knew I was in good company, there were 1,456 corps members and only 42 from Ife. Through solidarity, we all got good placements for POP and had 5 awardees on passing out parade day.

5. Every institution has their traditions, norms and processes that are peculiar and unique to them. Ife computes it CGPA differently from other schools. It should be noted that during the freshman orientation course, everything that need to be known is explained to jambites and there are course advisers allocated to all fresh students to break things down for anyone who wants more information. Computing an F or otherwise has a direct impact on your CGPA, True! But its OAU's tradition to do that and if you decide on the school take that fact.

6. OAU is large, yes! But there are buses who go from the Mozambique/Angola/Awo Extension to SUB enroute road 1 to town and motor bikes who can take you almost anywhere except staff quarters. Its not a medieval campus where all you do is trek and walk. Choosing to walk to lectures isn't the school's making. Therefore the OP is wrong to paint a picture of tiredness in lecture halls... Haba! Fear God. Lack of facilities and amenities affect all Nigerian universities. Even private universities where parents pay through their noses aren't left out. So cut out the criticism here. Inadequate funding is the bane of the Nigerian Educational sector.

7. OAU is beautiful! Well, maybe the structures around academics and the beautifully lit streets but beauty lies in the eye of the looker. I have seen more beautiful schools... However not in naija. I feel the OAU management needs to do more to preserve the legacy of the southwest's cocoa era. Also, OAU needs at least 7 more halls of residence. It doesn't require rocket science knowledge. An involvement of the private sector where halls can be built as investment vehicles should be welcome. As a member of my faculty alumni council, I have made more visits to the school since graduation than most of my mates and I must tell my readers that I appreciate the school more now than when I was a student. I have a ward now in UI and I must confess that I regret not having her in OAU. Not because UI is not equally good, but just because of the sentiments.

As a father, I would not want my kids having their university education here in Naija because our degrees mean next to nothing outside of our shores. But if push comes to shove, my kids know that they have only one choice of University here and its OAU. I would stop for now. Reactions are welcome. However dear OP, your views are respected but I dare say aren't a full representation of what obtains. God bless you.

Pardon the typos if any.

Omonoba1:
OAU students are just attacking the guy instead of analyzing the points he raised..na wa
o

Don't bother... I'm not surprised. That's how the typical OAU products behave... Their first line of action when they see a threat is to Attack, strike and fight. They aren't trained to think innovatively, objectively and to consider just maybe the next person has some invaluable thing to offer.

The only sailent points the OP has made was the epileptic calendar and the poor living conditions.


Other than those two, the resh is trash.


In case the OP didn't know,
1 unit = 15 hours of teaching (at least in UI).

Hence the unit of a course being 5 is not a show of wickedness or other brazen nonsense he claimed, rather it is meant to reflect the work and effort the lecturers put into teaching the students.


Even UI allocates 4 units to all its Mathematical courses.


And trust me, they calculate F in your grades too in UI.


My two kobo.

the best advice for Mr awe president:
I advise you this man to get something tangible to do with your life rather than tainting the image of your claimed university, OAU. your mates who graduated from the same university are there making their ways in life while you are here, disgracing yourself thinking you are disgracing your alma mater. frustrated man

MrAwePresident:
Don't bother... I'm not surprised. That's how the typical OAU products behave... Their first line of action when they see a threat is to Attack, strike and fight. They aren't trained to think innovatively, objectively and to consider just maybe the next person has some invaluable thing to offer.

Yes. You sure sound like an Alumnus

what pains me is that he doesn't even knows that he is shaming himself but he thinks he is doing the opposite - shaming OAU. people should better get work for him cos I think he is jobless.

Frustrated OP..... guy try to move on! From his write up, he graduated from OAU but maybe with 3rd class or pass.....

mat2d6boi:
stop telling lies bro, if u were admitted into OAU b4 then u must av graduated from there and be an alumni and be proud of ur uni anywhere on earth. look at u defaming OAU, you talk like someone dat has been rusticated due to low performance, that is even if you are telling the truth about your admission into OAU.

I'm a graduate of OAU.i dnt blame the op for being this way.perhaps,he wished he could be angrily given admission after the V.C sees this,thereafter,he wud commend oau well.
OAU is the mother of all the universities in Africa plus the most beautiful one at that.no one n nothing can b perfect.every universities has their shortcomings.despite dese shortcomings oau has,itz styl d best whether u like it or nei.
so dear op,u claimed to b a graduate of the prestigious oau,..pls quit lying.wen d jamb for is out,jez pass ur exam and u ll b given d admission u so much desire
because to me,dis post was ironically written....anyone who agrees wif me shud click "like"...

[quote author=MrAwePresident post=53403277]

9b.
When a student fails a course.
The F will be calculated in the GP, Even if they retake the course and score an A. The effect of the A will be like the effect of a C on their CGPA.

U. I doesn't calculate F in your GP



Get ur facts right bro...U.I do calculate F in ur gp

chiwuike20:
Oau graduates are not employable. This fact stands out. Check for Oau graduates in any institution and you will come up with personal data. It will be difficult to deny data compiled yourself

This is a good example of dictionary definition of bullshit

christabell18:
I'm a graduate of OAU.i dnt blame the op for being this way.perhaps,he wished he could be angrily given admission after the V.C sees this,thereafter,he wud commend oau well.
OAU is the mother of all the universities in Africa plus the most beautiful one at that.no one n nothing can b perfect.every universities has their shortcomings.despite dese shortcomings oau has,itz styl d best whether u like it or nei.
so dear op,u claimed to b a graduate of the prestigious oau,..pls quit lying.wen d jamb for is out,jez pass ur exam and u ll b given d admission u so much desire
because to me,dis post was ironically written....anyone who agrees wif me shud click "like"...

bro, you just got the frustrated man right. are you a psychologist please, if I may ask? I was guessing something similar too before I saw this.
Mr awe president, you had better go and see a psychologist like this man if you have challenges and you don't know how to counter it.
chikena.....

simplymat:
bro, you just got the frustrated man right. are you a psychologist please, if I may ask? I was guessing something similar too before I saw this.
Mr awe president, you had better go and see a psychologist like this man if you have challenges and you don't know how to counter it.
chikena.....

i'm a lady...check ma profile sir.

simplymat:
bro, you just got the frustrated man right. are you a psychologist please, if I may ask? I was guessing something similar too before I saw this.
Mr awe president, you had better go and see a psychologist like this man if you have challenges and you don't know how to counter it.
chikena.....

i'm a lady who studied geography...jez love to put psychology into practice...check ma profile sir..

christabell18:
I'm a graduate of OAU.i dnt blame the op for being this way.perhaps,he wished he could be angrily given admission after the V.C sees this,thereafter,he wud commend oau well.
OAU is the mother of all the universities in Africa plus the most beautiful one at that.no one n nothing can b perfect.every universities has their shortcomings.despite dese shortcomings oau has,itz styl d best whether u like it or nei.
so dear op,u claimed to b a graduate of the prestigious oau,..pls quit lying.wen d jamb for is out,jez pass ur exam and u ll b given d admission u so much desire
because to me,dis post was ironically written....anyone who agrees wif me shud click "like"...

That's another one... Typical OAU product...what options do you offer for those that don't agree with you?

There's no room for a different opinion
Any one with a contradictory opinion is seen as an enemy.
I don't blame you, your school didn't teach you how to respect other peoples opinions

MrAwePresident:
4. Violence

Jungle justice OAU
Jungle justice OAU
Jungle justice OAU



This where it is taught and mastered
If you when they catch a thief... My goodness
They beat them up like wild animals... Even some law students will join in the beating of someones child.

They forget about how the legal system works

The SUG is very guilty of this.
The worst thing is that doesn't deter others from stealing.

Obafemi Awolowo university
D only university Yu can freely walk from faculty of agriculture to Mozambique hall at 3am in d night without Yu being scared of any damn shit
Bros Yu need to give us a better reason y OAU is not great, d situation in OAU is better dan most universities in Nigeria and sorry even Nigeria as a nation

Hormohtoondeh:

Obafemi Awolowo university
D only university Yu can freely walk from faculty of agriculture to Mozambique hall at 3am in d night without Yu being scared of any damn shit
Bros Yu need to give us a better reason y OAU is not great, d situation in OAU is better dan most universities in Nigeria and sorry even Nigeria as a nation

you are right but that can't be because of the jungle justice culture... OAU is also a very religious school

thinkative:


To start with, you have a point regarding the paucity of OAU students in the petroleum industry. OAU does not have a department of Petroleum Engineering. UI does. I think LAG has one too. so those schools have and edge in that field.

Regarding the living conditions. you're very right. Hostels are over crowded and toilets stink like hell. the hostels are practically wasting away. What the school management does is 'renopainting' and not renovation. sadly, that is true for most schools I've visited. apart from UI. I think their hostels were renovated recently. I enjoyed the few days I spent with my brother there last year


However, you are bang out of order on the other points. education is supposed to be as cheap as possible. especially in a country like ours where the majority of the population can't even afford the basic necessities of life. I paid about 20k in tuition fees throughout my stay in Ife. that's 5k per session for social sciences. I paid about 3k for accommodation at Angola and fajuyi halls. what a wow! that's how its supposed to be. Not everybody can afford to pay Princeton fees in our private universities. for your info, I paid 50 naira to watch olamide perform at amphitheatre in my final year. and it wasn't worth it. he was obviously too drunk or high to perform. Its all about value for money

regarding grades. you're just not serious.
regarding size of the school. I don't even know what to type.

I hereby recommend that the OP be taken to Awo hall and given a full dosage of SMS (scientific maximum shishi)

SMS leads us right back to OP's point on jungle justice . During my time there, SUG usually give a fair hearing before SMS is invoked. They don't even spare principal officers of the SUG (one of their own) if found guilty of all charges. It's a tough school to be a student but it's fun all the way. At OAU, I met the greatest minds in critical thinking (tech ex-classmates) even after working/schooling in 3 continents, 10 years on.

Nostalgia is a b*tch.

AlfredIbojo:
. Bro, OAU hostel might not be too Behind, but wait, I think you are making too much of this, OAU has over thirty thousand student and about twenty thousand of them stay in those hostel. Twenty thousand people can't be all wrong

Just because they're living there doesn't automatically mean they like it there or are satisfied with the living conditions. Is it not the same house-flies infested OAU hostel toilets that had feces splattered all around the walls, the floors, with scanty water supply and ancient pvc toilets and pit latrines that looked like a disease nesting ground and smelling like an open septic tank? In fact, anyone that approves of the hostel toilets conditions needs psychiatric evaluation. I know what I'm saying, and unless things have changed in recent times, well then OAU hostels are deplorably disgusting. I'm not demeaning the school, just stating facts. By Nigeria standards, it's a great campus, I'll rate it 85%; but as far as its hostels baths and toilets go, it's a ZERO % rating for me.

OAU!

AlfredIbojo:
. Fine girls with big yansh, lol. Omg, you need to come around now, it is even bigger than than those day. Fine stunning girls

Hehe ! Especially in social sciences and law faculties, and in the big campus fellowships like BLW...back in the days. What a big a$s motivation to be in school

PLEASE NOTE:::::;:;::::::::::
A reasonable person, I expect will have to deduce 2 'basic' things from that 'frustrated and hater', mr awe president's write up:
1_he stated his points but exaggerated;
2_he is undoubtedly a frustrated person.
Passers by, you had better go and do a deep research about what that 'intimidated' man said cause he said it all out of sentiments which I think my fellow people should not consider his writing as a final judge.
#stopranting
#awetellusyourmind
#greatIFEwestand

MrAwePresident:


That's another one... Typical OAU product...what options do you offer for those that don't agree with you?

There's no room for a different opinion
Any one with a contradictory opinion is seen as an enemy.
I don't blame you, your school didn't teach you how to respect other peoples opinions

mr awe or wateva u call urself...i dnt wanna knw who d hell u are.if u ad some respect,u wudnt quote me lyk an idiot...plus if u ad some respect,u shud knw dat oau is older dan u,he goat.

Oba Adaniduro University (OAU)

OAU_:- Oba Awon University Only Available University Others Are Uncomparable #greatestIFE......................

So tell me the best University

christabell18:
mr awe or wateva u call urself...i dnt wanna knw who d hell u are.if u ad some respect,u wudnt quote me lyk an idiot...plus if u ad some respect,u shud knw dat oau is older dan u,he goat.

You brought yourself into my thread
I didn't force nor invite you here.

BTW you're an adult .. Respect and remember your age and religion before you use vulgar words especially online.