₦airaland Forum

kennygee:
After lecturers were sacked following the last strike, curent masters students of the school were made lecturers, these young guys do as they like.

My younger sister is doing a holiday job as we speak so she can meet up the demands of the sorting.

LuciferChristi:
"Her" is not just for humans, it's used for institutions & countries too.

LuciferChristi:
Isn't it supposed to be "her students" instead of "its students"?


Even I am confused.

“Before I came in, we had some people that came in 2002 and some of them just got their results last two years. Even up till date, like 90 per cent of them have not received their certificates,” said Julius Adeoye, a 500-level student of the Department of Literature and English.

On a grey, cloudy afternoon in March, a dozen students at the Anthony campus of the Lagos State University (LASU) huddled around a notice board. Pasted on the board, propped against a wooden bench on the floor, were the final year results of two departments – the 2003/04 and 2007/08 batches of students in Mass Communication and Economics Departments respectively.


But the late release of the results, now a tradition at the School of Part Time (otherwise known as LASU External System) established in 2002, is just one of the myriad problems students in the institution face.
A protracted delay in issuing certificates to graduates, non-issuance of identity cards to students, and delay in payment of lecturers’ remuneration have ensured that the school continues to churn out young people who are already frustrated with the system.
“Before I came in, we had some people that came in 2002 and some of them just got their results last two years. Even up till date, like 90 per cent of them have not received their certificates,” said Julius Adeoye, a 500-level student of the Department of Literature and English.


“LASU is a good university but the structure is bad,” added Mr. Adeoye, who had spent seven years studying a five-year course.

With 10 satellite campuses spread across the state – eight on the mainland and two on the island – and a student population of more than 70,000; the LASU authorities have paid just a passing interest in students’ affairs at the External System.
And the absence of a well coordinated and united student body have meant the students find it difficult to present a common front and confront the university management.
“We have the Ojo (main campus) having the concentration of the management while the external system, which is like the power house where they generate more money, is not taken care of.


“And the reason is because in a conventional university, we have the student union, but in the external system, LASU management has been trying to subdue the body of students who are trying to fight for the benefit of the students. That is why we are having some of these problems,” said Mr. Adeoye, a member of the Students Representative Council.
Perhaps, one of the most worrying things for the students is the non-issuance of student identity cards by the management.
According to the students, some of them have come under severe police harassment and brutality due to their inability to “identify” themselves when accosted by the officers.
“In fact, they arrest some of our students and they take them for (bus) conductors because they don’t have student identity cards to show that they are students of LASU.


“That is why some of the departments have started to produce ID cards for their students because we’ve had issues whereby some of our students will stay for like a week in the police station,” Mr. Adeoye said.
The LASU School of Part Time was established to help solve the problem of manpower requirements of the state among other objectives, according to the institution.
In addition, it aimed to take education nearer and closer to the people of Lagos State through its multi-campus status in line with the Edict establishing it.
A lot of the graduates – who refer to themselves as ‘out gone students’ because “they do not have proofs of being graduates” – say it is difficult retaining their jobs after graduation, not to talk of getting new ones.


One of them who identified himself simply as Tobi said that he was “politely” asked to leave by his former employer when he failed to tender any testimonial eight years after he said he was a part-time student.
“My employer thought I’d been lying to him all these years because he had really supported and encouraged me during my programme,” said Tobi, who finished from the Jibowu campus last year.


“I couldn’t even present to him a ‘To whom it may concern’ from the school. He was disappointed,” he added.
The university, which prides itself as the “preferred university of excellence with cutting edge research,” has a history of delaying, or outright failure in some cases, in payment of lecturers’ remuneration across all its campuses.

Premium Times investigations reveal that the school pays lecturers N38,000 (after a N2,000 tax deduction) per course.
Furthermore, a lecturer must not exceed teaching two courses in a particular campus and a total of four courses in all the campuses.
Lecturers are also ‘forbidden’ from selling course handouts or collecting money under any guise from the students.


“If you are unlucky to have just one course, it means you will be paid N38,000 in four months,” said a student leader at the Jibowu campus..
As a result, the lecturers play their aces – seize students’ examination papers until they are paid.
Ade Alabi (not his real name) is a lecturer in one of the campuses and he describes the challenges he faces as “numerous.”
“The very first one is that there is no proper package, arrangement for lecturers.
“For lecturers to come over to the school, he or she will be hanging around. No special place that we could call an office, for us to relax after teaching the students,” says Mr. Alabi.

When asked if he’d ever withheld students’ results to press home his demands, Mr. Alabi responds:
“Students’ results? Of course, that’s gonna be now. In a situation whereby a lecturer is not paid, how will you expect the lecturer to submit the result of the student? He or she is not gonna do that.”
“In a situation you are expecting your cheque, and you need money for so many things, you are not paid. Definitely, the only avenue you hold them to
ransom is to seize the result which in one way or the other affect the students.”
The lecturers who are either teaching full time or handling just one course are always the worst hit; the current semester began last September and is still unfinished as at April.


“We are still awaiting cheques of close to two semesters now,” Mr. Alabi says.
Serial graft such as the recent allegations of embezzlement of N3bn by the institution’s senior staff is to blame for the crisis in the External System and has led to the freezing of the account in question; the lecturers say they were told by school authorities.
“It is a transfer of aggression that is affecting the students and the lecturers at the same time,” said another lecturer who did not want to be named.


A statement on the institution’s website stated that the School of Part Time was established to operate the various part-time programs approved by the University Senate in its various campuses with the relationship between the School and staff being purely contractual, and the expectation that its operations would not be truncated by “strikes knock-outs.”
‘We are struggling’
However, the university management says they are “struggling” to manage the spate of problems.
In September last, after series of students’ protests at the main campus in Ojo over the alleged high-handedness of Professor Lateef Hussein, the then Vice Chancellor (VC); Professor John Obafunwa was appointed as his replacement.
Sola Fosudo of LASU’s Media and Information unit said the problems at the External System should be blamed on all the past vice chancellors.


“They are responsible for the backlog of unissued results and certificates as well as students’ identity cards,” Mr. Fosudo said in an interview with Premium Times.
“I am aware that the new VC (Prof Obafunwa) has been signing certificates in his office, in his car, in his house,” he added.
Mr. Fosudo also said that they have been having meetings with some students from the External System and that they are trying “to correct the errors of the past.”
“In the next two months, if these issues persist, then you can come and query us.”
Mr. Adeoye and other students say they have prepared for a life of uncertainty after graduation, if the problems are not nipped in the bud.
“Some of our parents sold family lands to send us to school in the hope of after the result, you get a good job, and you buy them lands or maybe houses… But you enter for a programme of five years and you are spending seven years, and you don’t have results,” said Mr. Adeoye.
"It doesn’t make sense that you will spend seven years in an institution and you graduate and you cannot get a result. This is my seventh year and I’m not sure I will get my results in the next three years.”

Orezy5:
Sounding confident of his accomplishment, Director of Studies, Starfield College, Fagba, Iju, Mr. Eigbe said every year, the school has a project tagged Director’s Project, meant to produce students with 9As in the May/June WASSCE and also ensure they score above 300 in the UTME.

He said the academic project has yielded results, stating that in 2017 WASSCE, the college produced a student with 9A1s and for 2019 it has placed five students on academic diet to make 9As in the May/June WASSCE.

“Every year, we identify students and give them special attention and David was one of them. David belongs to the high-flying class. Students we put on special academic diet made 8As, 7As and 6As and Bs in the 2018 WASSCE. Our plan was to make ten 9As.

“[b]When David was in SS2, we knew he will make 9A1s and we subjected him to high dose of studies. I have already known students that will make 9As in the May/June 2019 WASSCE. When school resumes, we shall focus on them.
“Four years ago, Amechi made 8A1s and I told my teachers to work towards 9As. If the environment is right and with good teachers, the students will make 9As.[/b]

masseratti:
as per business men owning University you conveniently forgot to Atiku, Elizade, Adeleke are those ones not business men? 7000 students paying 120 profs, that was almost the population of UI when I was there, I will say the school is doing pretty well.

tonio2wo:
He only cited a quote from d bible. He did not explain further. It's left for you to interpret the meaning that best suits you.

The guilty runs when no one pursue

Dalam0n:
What has the snake oil selling enterprise Oyedepo deals in got to do with empy mythological narrative you just posted from the bible?

LharryVee:
Says the sole-owner of 2 universities, 2/3 private jets, countless houses and richest pastor in Africa... Religious-minded fellows where hath thy brain?

Dalam0n:
You haven't invested any money because you lie to people and they give you money. Why else will you invest money into any business when you already have a thriving business of selling snake oil?

Nukilia:
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with tales they have concocted. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Xander85:
Dumb question! Give them a choice first before gloating! You hold a gun to their heads, forcing them to be Nigerians by-fire-or-by-force, so what are you getting excited about?

Their kinsfolk have been murdered, kidnapped and thrown in jail all for asking for a referendum to determine if they want to remain Nigerians, and you're here asking silly questions!

CodeTemplar:
They aren't wearing the green-white-green willing. They are being forced to do it. Nigeria is not a country but a looting scheme by majority against some minority group.

Ekez:
That's why ,everytime they hear biafra the start shivering.
#Proudly BIAFRA .

hopefulLandlord:
So does every Christian person who follows a different doctrine from yours. you are a special snowflake bro

trendysturvs:
Cody said he will not stop handling snakes. He said: ‘These snakes are part of the Bible, and I’m going to put that before anyone. But if you’ve not been raised up in it, you’ll look at it like “Man, those people are crazy”. ‘I’ve seen a lot of people bitten, I’ve seen them suffer, I’ve seen them come close to death.

‘But I do believe that if you get bit and you have to suffer, that there was something wrong, either that you didn’t move when God told you to, you went against what God said, I do believe that.’

danbrowndmf:
Please I Need You To Help Me Do Somthing Sir.

olujastro:
Nice.

But for every good work Ambode is doing, it reminds me of how dirty a place he's turned Lagos to.
What shall it profit Ambode if he reconstructs everything in Lagos but Lagos becomes very dirty and just awaits impending cholera outbreaks?
Ambo, did your village people come after your brain in this matter? Or do you or Tinubu have interest in VisionScape? Or are you just trying to spite Fashola for not backing your ambition initially? What has the masses got to do with that!

Fashola cleaned up Lagos and brought in a functional system of waste management using PSP operators. The private guys invested money to set up their companies. Instead of continuing with a working system, Ambode terminated their contracts just to bring in a company that has no capacity to handle waste in Lagos.

The PSP guys came every Saturday to pick up our trash from house to house but Ambode replaced global best practice with 2 waste bins that can't take wastes from 5 houses for a street of hundreds of residents. Now people dump their waste on the road or patronize aboki.s aka kongis who end up dumping them indiscriminately.

This is one reason I can never look for govt contracts or partner with them. No continuity in Nigeria and every new government ruins your investment without 'sending' you.

Another thing is the lack of transparency in his govt. Under Fashola, Lagos' budget was easily available online and one could easily cross-check with ongoing projects on ground. But Ambode has refused to reveal any information on cost of projects.
I guess this is what we get when Tinubu has a firm grip of Lagos governor. No wonder he kept fighting Fashola till date for wanting to do things the right way.
Please, we love the projects but we also want a cleaner and more transparent Lagos.

PUSSYBBQGRILLS:
Determination is everything.


Congrats mama.