It's been a frustrating experience for many prospective students no doubt about that. Likewise, it would have been a terrific wait especially to those who are expecting the much-anticipated 2nd batch of admission list. I so much share the pain, I was once in your shoes in last year, didnt see the list not until November, 26 2014 and we had to stay outside the school walls until May 17th, 2017.

Having said that, I wouldnt want you to see the staylites as time-wasters so to say. Instead, you should see them as nothing but conscious and undaunting students that will never smile in the face of injustice and maladministration. I have no iota of skepticism to point out here that Great IFE students has never and will never embark on a baseless struggle nor protest. Our struggles have always been the ones that bother on students' welfarism and pro-masses activities. IFE students are known and respected for their unrepentant stance against tyrannical administrators and career saboteaurs.
As intellectual minds, we maintained that for a school to record qualitative educational output, the welfare of the students in such school needs to be catered for. We have only said that the school management, having drained the purse of our poor parents, ( analytically, the acceptance fee was increased in 2011 from #2,000 to #20,000, In 2014, this same management brought up a killing 300% increment in school fees making the least payable fee by an average new student to be #90,000. During these life-saving struggles, the school management did not relent in using their oppressive hands on students, measures such as school closure, suspension/victimization of students activists have always been adopted inbring students to their kneels. Alas! we are not even protesting against the feek hike anymore, but we are of the position that if students could pay such an acrimonious fee to get educated then our welfare must be catered for. We are saying that the management of the so-called Africa's most beautiful campus should stop giving us colourful and odourful water as pipe-borne water, that there should be constant power supply, then renovate our collapsing lecture theatres vis-a-vis the construction of new hostels so as to provide more accomodation to cater for the increase in the number of admission seekers. The money collected that ought to have been used in putting in place the lacking amenities, is presently being spent in building a multi million naira 12 storey senate building, having previously built three administrative buildings, abandoning one. These I think are quite understandable even to a road-side mechanic.
Alas, the tyrannical school management we've got did not reason along. Instead, they see us as "noise makers" and that our demands are as beautiful as illusions. Instead, they felt the only way they could respond to our demands is by shutting down the school, the only tool that has always been used to SILENCE the students.

However, as a clear- headed students' union, every possible means of amplifying our voices have been adopted, including press comferences, interviews, social media platforms among others. Inspite of all these measures, the government is yet to say a word as regard the illegal and unwarranted closure of the school. What could have caused the silence of the educational stakeholders on OAU's crisis and the oppressive actions of her management? Your guess is as good as mine. It's as a result of the non- challant attitude of FG especially the sadists in the office of the Minister of Education, betterstill a conspiracy to between the office of the minister and the University administrators to further loot the education sector rather than ensuring that the sector is repositioned. FG cant tell us that she is not aware of the OAU saga and the misaction of its management to at every point in time resort to frequent closure of the school as if the university is their personal factory which can be closed anytime and opened whenever they wish. Also, considering the rate at which OAU students utilized every media platform both printed and non-printed version, it's more than true that it's only the dead government that can claim not to hear the cries and yarnings of IFE students.
At this point in time, to proffer a relative sanity to the situation on ground, the Federal government through the office of the Minister of Education need to come out of its shell and address the OAU saga. This will go along way to restall confidence in the mind of the future leaders, safeguard the fundamental human rights of the citizens and 'll also help to forestall peace and relative continuity in the university. Thus, the non-intervention of Federal government in the on-going crisis may further worsen the situation instead of quenching or betterstill prevent future occurences. I am not a prophet of doom but based on IFE's antecedents, there is high probability that the re-opening of the school by the mgmt without the intervention of the government may mark the preparation for another untold crisis. Our management needs to get it right, that problems can never be solved by oppression or tyranny. It only worsen the situation. A system of oppressive managers and radical followers cannot avoid frequent crisis.


#Our demands are meetable and must be me--t.
#IFE students refuse to be silenced.
#We are not commodities, we are humans!
#He who charges heavily must give in return.
#SayNOtoTYRANNY
#WeCONDEMN every form of Financial maradonism in OAU.
#La lucha sigue: Nothing shall discourage us.

Gafar Fatoyinbo Socrates,
Is a 200L student of Social and Sustainable development science Education in the Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Braynhiac:
shoro niyen??

oyamilenu o o o

Bro comradgafar, well said.. But seem to me as if you've forgotten dat itz ppl's time you are wasting under the canopy of claiming to seek retribution for the injustice melted on u by the school... Datz by the way, the main issue to be addressed here is the fact that Oau students cannot fight for a course without going on strike... If we would defend our action, we would end up saying datz what actually makes us great Ife... I want to believe that we can make our views known without having to go on strike. ..

@Darhmmy, and you think students have the right/could be so daft or stupid to embark on strike? Oh! It seems you do not understand the situation of things on campus. Over the years, whenever the management introduces any of her obnoxious policies, the students' union can only react being a pressure group by declaring a lecture boycot which has never in the history of OAU gone beyond 72 hours or to embark on a peaceful protest to press home their demands in which they 'll return back to class immediately after the protest. On no occasion has the students voluntarily announced STRIKE as a way of making a request, it has never happened before. Rather, it has always been the management who because of their unwillingness and non-challant attitude towards the demands of their students always decide to SHUT DOWN the school, infact they wont call it strike as at the point of closing the school, instead, they call it MID-SEMESTER BREAK.

The general public needs to be aware of the fact that IFE students does not have the effontery to proclaim STRIKE, it's erroneous. It's the responsibility and administrative power of the management to decide the closure and opening of the school. It's quite unfortunate seeing the people's perception of OAU's students. Whenever there is closure, we tend to blame the students.
Dont forget, you all chose OAU because of its greatness, let me tell that her greatness was not by accident, MANY STUDENTS, GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS fought (Academically and Alutally) tiredlessly and painstakingly to earn the laudable grearness, to ensure that IFE did not metamorphos into Unilorin or OOU.

dharmmy007:
Bro comradgafar, well said.. But seem to me as if you've forgotten dat itz ppl's time you are wasting under the canopy of claiming to seek retribution for the injustice melted on u by the school... Datz by the way, the main issue to be addressed here is the fact that Oau students cannot fight for a course without going on strike... If we would defend our action, we would end up saying datz what actually makes us great Ife... I want to believe that we can make our views known without having to go on strike. ..

OAU students did not go on strike. The school management ordered us to vacate the school under the canopy of a mid semester break. Just clearing things up.

Alright then... Cos I'm speaking from the pain of staying at home

I understand your plight and I'm not oblivious of the pain too. I was once a victim of OAU's adaniduro tendency. #Wink# It wont last forever. You 'll definitely get over it.
Btw, were you admitted in the first list or via PD?

I look forward to seeing you on campus.
You shall one day turn a congress man no doubt about that. OAU has a way of processing her students.

person pikin fi meet person for school self

Edwardhead:
person pikin fi meet person for school self

Lol... Haaba

Edwardhead:
person pikin fi meet person for school self

Lol... Haaba, God forbid dat o

@ comradeGafar.

No offense intended bro.Truth be told with no modicum of sentiment,all I read was borne out of the zeal to display grammatical proficiency and literal creativity.

When you're fighting against someone, You take a meticulous scrutiny at his strength,the possible outcome and the 'pros and cons'.
I'm quite sure of the fact you and I know it has been eons since any of this past struggles yielded a positive result.The same thing happened when the acceptance fee was outrageously increased,the union was disbanded and was only reinstated by virtue of the funds OAU ASUU chapter wanted to receive.If not for that,the wailings and yearnings of the students aren't enough to bring about a reinstatement of the union.
In the same vein when the fee was increased,we students were the one who ultimately ended up clamouring for resumption despite how far we took the protest.

I'm not trying to justify the mgmt's doings,infact,I'm totally against it.But we should bear in mind these fellas we're fighting against are the ones who put us in power and can proscribe us anytime they want willingly.Now that the union has even been dissolved, what's the way forward??
There's more to life than fighting needlessly and pointlessly, wasting your time in school whilst your mates and even your younger ones are making it out there stupendously.

On a candid note,with all these assertions and vindications being made by most students,I can tell you with utter equanimity a greater percentage of the students is happy with the proscription. They're only shouting the mantra "War War",what measures have they embarked on following the disbandment??

They're all cognizant of how stouthearted and headstrong the hellbender of a VC we have,they have to be wise in their demands without venting any sort of superciliousness.
If the VC decides to close the school till April,no one can apprehend him for it,that's power.

@ comradegafar Try reprimand without attacking my individuality.

@Crosstodds

Sequel to your prologue, I'm quoting now,

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"No offense intended bro.Truth be told with no
modicum of sentiment,all I read was borne out of
the zeal to display grammatical proficiency and
literal creativity" -
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I must say pointedly that that was a direct attack on my personality. Be that as it may, I'll not want to overflog issue here even thou I see it as baseless and a claim which cant be substantiated. Reason being that, the messages in my write-up were well articulated and clear enough even to the man at the bus-stop more reason why you were able to decode it and responded. So, how have I showed my grammatical muscles? Or probably you were expecting me to write the piece in Yoruba language may be by that I wont display any literary weapon as you claimed.

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*** "bear in mind these fellas we're fighting against
are the ones who put us in power and can
proscribe us anytime they want willingly"-
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It behooves me to inform you that it is not within the statory power of the management to dictate nor "put us in power". Students unionism by virtue of.the 1999 constitution as amended is well entrenched in the Federation's constitution. It annoyes me to see youths of nowadays talk this way. "Put us in power and can proscribe us anytime they want willingly" This is an erroneous statement that I never expect from any IFE student. It is a widely known fact that the right to association is an inalienable right of every citizen in any democratic entity which must not be tampered. The leadership of the students union was duely voted into office by the generality of the students not the management. The school management having passed through the same system we are passing one time or the other understood the IMPORTANCE AND POWER of our students union much more than the so-called students, as that it is the only potent platform or confluence in which students aggregate their opinions and decisions. In case you dont know, our school management today once benefitted immensely from the students union as at the time of high radicalism, the likes of Bamitale Omole made used of the students union to protest vehemently for proper welfare of students on campus and against tyrannical military administrators in the '80's. During this periods, despite the students aggressiveness, inspite of the powers wielded on the Kakki men, students were not being victimized compare to the way it is now, infact they were feared for they understood their rights and were ready to defend it to any length.

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***"There's more to life than fighting needlessly and
pointlessly, wasting your time in school whilst
your mates and even your younger ones are
making it out there stupendously"
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Of course, OAU's academic calendar is slower than slow motion, no doubt about that but I know you are not oblivious of the fact that THE RACE IS NOT FOR THE FASTEST BUT FOR THE SMARTEST AND THE FAVOURED ONES. SUCCESS is not measured by the ability to finish before your colleagues but by the ability to receive God's favour before any other person. Thus, peaceful and fast academic calendar must not be substituted for injustice and maladministration. It is unjustifiable for crying out loud. Should we continue to drink colourful and odourful water on campus all in the name of Stable academic calendar? Lets tackle issues and dump frivolities. Injustice is injustice. Why must you shut down the school and also suspend the union activities simply because your students SAID NO TO supply of chocolate water instead of Purified water? These are issues that require emergency attention from FG itself.

Everyone wants to grad. on time, nobody wishes to stay a minute longer but I must tell you that the Nigerian system is in a state of commatose. You dont know how HOT and SATURATED it is until you enters into the labour barracks otherwise known as labour market. Graduating on time is good but how do you make a living for yourself after leaving the university. The alarming rate of unemployment is a killer on its own. You need go and see how many UNILORIN students that are currently suffering from the generational disease of JOBLESSNESS. Alas! that very school continues to chunk out nothing less than 10,000 fresh graduates on yearly basis consequently, adding to the unemployment rate in the country.
Do you know that on average, Nigerian universities and Polytechnics both Private and Public, often chunk out nothing less than 500,000 graduates on yearly basis?

Recently, the FG announced its intention to employ 5,000 jobless graduates as TEACHERS. Isnt that enough for us to ponder over? Pushing a graduate of Mechanical Engineering to classroom tells us that there are no jobs anywhere. The ruling class/politicians are DESTROYING our future via cyphoning of our common treasury and the only response we could give them is to smile in the face of sufferness. O ye YOUTHS! Wake up from your slumber!

FREEDOM is not accidental, it must be fought for.
Our leaders shall never take us seriously until we ourselves let them realize our stance as regard EDUCATION that it is a life-long legacy which must be well taken care of. But we cant achieve this until we raise our consciousness and drops the euphoria of bagging a B.sc certificate at the age of 16.

###The race is not for the FASTEST BUT THE FAVOURED.###

This Post above is so useless...
U should have waited to write jamb at age 18/20...
Am sure did person talking is doing a 4-year course..
U have forgotten to check that we have 35 years of service and some pple are already 23 an are just in year One going for Education . because of OAU Now.. They can't work for up to 35 years of service and their age will be more than 60 before their retirement...
On the part of saying uniilorin students are jobless at home.. Pls ur Point is baseless. Reason being that there is no reference or proof.. Show me a jobless uniilorin student I will show u and Oau too... Joblessness is not based on. School OK... The more u pple keep hyping Oau.. The more they continue their madness

Dunsin89:
I love OAU. forget the strikes and late resumption. That is part of what makes the school sweet and thick. Slow and steady wins the race. Look at other bright sides of OAU, the peaceful and serene environment, a school where you have freedom and not treated like secondary school pupils, average OAU student is friendly and approchable, A certificate from there is widely respected and accepted anywhere in Nigeria and abroad, high academic standards and all that. Aluta continua, Victoria ascerta

Interesting...rubbish...
So certificates of other schools aren't respected?
My friend I see u just smoked oshogbo weed..
#Endtime Nsieli(iGBO)

@ comradeGafar
I do apologise for denigratory attack at your personality even though its

@ comradeGafar

I do apologise for denigratory attack at your individuality even though it's more like an admonition from my point of view.
We're in the 21st century, you're only making reference to occurrence and the status quo ages ago.The current state of affairs then can be compared with present.That was in the 90s.
I'm sure you are cognizant of what happened in 2004.A student called rashidi yaketu was gruesomely murdered during the protest,that didn't even move the mgmt one bit,the students' Union was disbanded,the students ultimately ended up paying the fee coupled the money for the alleged damages inclusively.
Forget about FG's intervention into this quagmire,Even when the fee was outrageously increased,waiting for FG to resolve the imbroglio was like waiting for 3SC to win the UEFA cup,how much more a trivial and inconsequential issue as regards "Water and light" This ilk of problem is even a general issue,almost all schools on one or different occasions have it to deal with.
What about the sudden explosions and circuit breakers' technical compromise that do happen with the transformers,it's not like it takes a couple of days before being repaired by the school,even it's sometimes done in 6 hours.
And mind you,before the closure, you can't deny the fact there was unremitting availability of light and water,the school indulged and gave in to the student's yearnings,but I can't still comprehend the rationale why they had to threaten the mgmt with the disruption of the then impending coronation for the sake of renovation.

As with your conjecture concerning UNILORIN,that's apparently a mere proposition owing to the fact you have no validation to back up your vindication,the assertion you made is baseless.My bro graduated from the school a couple of years back and despite the fact he did one of those trivial courses,I can say he's making it big to a reasonable extent Now.Not only judging by personal thingy,I know a lot of people that graduated from UNILORIN and are making it enormously,on the contrary,I know some jobless OAU graduates and vice versa.

True,getting a job isn't by virtue of how fast you bagged your degree,but the fact still remains they stand a better chance than the guys fighting needlessly in school for the sake of constant supply of amenities they have no access to where they hail from.
Also,there's no assurance one would get a lucrative job months or even years after bagging a degree.It's Gods will.

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@ Comradegafar you don't get it.

We stayed back home for 4 months when the acceptance fee was hiked and still came back to pay the exact amount we were protesting against.

The same happened in 2014,we stayed back home for close to 3months and still came back to pay the precise amount we were protesting against.

It's like this has previously been and will subsequently be the modus operandi .We protest,the mgmt sends us home and we start clamouring for resumption.There should be another way of approach to this incessant entanglement,it's not always about the aluta mentality,the last time that kind of violent approach yielded a positive result was in the 80's.We need to quit basking in our pool of delusion.
Believe me,many students have started clamouring for resumption despite the fact we've barely spent four weeks at home.
All these period of our stay at home, they keep receiving their salaries and their supplicatory allotments.We have always been at the losing end.
And someone will still come to tell me some bullshit of a thing he's fighting for the sake of unborn generations,being undaunting and all those bullcraps while he's on his bed sitting and typing to ease off boredom.What has TY said to this issue at hand?

Hmmmmm... All I can tell you guys is to calm down. I can feel the pulse and sincerely speaking I understand the plight of those still expecting the second list to be released.

Truth be told, we can't all get it right because the angle at which we are viewing it is different. GAFAR is talking as a man in the box and you are replying as a man outside the box. Sincerely speaking, you are all on point.

It's obvious the management is not doing us right and something you guys don't know is that the FG has given universities management a fair autonomy and it has level at which they can intervene. Don't be shocked, Buhari is aware of what is happening in OAU. I saw Nuru Ribadu's article has regards OAU welfarism and nothing was done.

I don't want to write an epistle to ease the matter. COMRADEGAFAR, I know you will act beyond those guys if you were in their shoe, don't tell me same thing happened during our time because I know how I 'para' then too.

I will just beg you guys (freshers) to be patient, endure it and it will definitely be better. Don't condemn students' union, the management is corrupt that is it. You can't tell me protest has become a sin in a democratic state, even in developed countries they often protest. We only protested for a day and the result was 'MID SEMESTER BREAK'. Two Mid Semester Break in a session, the first one was initiated by NASU protest and you guys didn't blame them for exercising their right.
Protest is not a big deal, unionism is not to elongate struggle. There is unionism everywhere because our leaders are highly corrupt. Even if there is no Students' Union on campus, students will still protest in time like this. Don't condemn them, they are risking their studentship for you and me. If Nelson Mandela thought he was wasting his time then, maybe South Africa will still be clamouring freedom against Apartheid. AFRICA of OAU was sacrified for the security we benefit today. This same management fought for freedom (in fact for full chicken) during their time, so, why are do we see the fight for freedom as something bad?

You can throw it back at me that there are other means to press our demands like writing letter to senate, lobbying with this Ambassador of poverty and using the press instead of protesting and going home. I can tell you point black here that TY, the students' union president has sent several words in black and white copies to those autocrats, they held several meetings before the last straw that broke the back of the camel.

Nobody is happy with the situation of things and I can tell you that we students are really the problem of ourselves. I back the freshers points because I witnessed the reaction and joy of Bamidele and Ojogbon, the erstwhile PRO and Welfare Director under Ibikunle led administration when they heard the school has proscribed Union, they were happy with the situation on ground. They were comparing their adminstration and claiming to be better than TY administration. Theses guys were seriously playing politics in the name of Aluta. It's crystal clear that some students are promoting their names under the umbrella of Aluta, seriously shouting 'war' in vain.

One thing I am so sure of is that if the time to fight comes, we will all fight.

On this note, I rest my keypad and implore you to endure. We all want to move ahead and I pray we will move ahead in Jesus name. Leave Unilorin or other school out of the talk and let face our real problem.

In this struggle we shall give testimony of joy.

I remain Tosdadm, Language Arts part II student, Faculty of Education, OAU.

Hello Fellas!!

comradeGafar:
It's been a frustrating experience for many prospective students no doubt about that. Likewise, it would have been a terrific wait especially to those who are expecting the much-anticipated 2nd batch of admission list. I so much share the pain, I was once in your shoes in last year, didnt see the list not until November, 26 2014 and we had to stay outside the school walls until May 17th, 2017.

Having said that, I wouldnt want you to see the staylites as time-wasters so to say. Instead, you should see them as nothing but conscious and undaunting students that will never smile in the face of injustice and maladministration. I have no iota of skepticism to point out here that Great IFE students has never and will never embark on a baseless struggle nor protest. Our struggles have always been the ones that bother on students' welfarism and pro-masses activities. IFE students are known and respected for their unrepentant stance against tyrannical administrators and career saboteaurs.
As intellectual minds, we maintained that for a school to record qualitative educational output, the welfare of the students in such school needs to be catered for. We have only said that the school management, having drained the purse of our poor parents, ( analytically, the acceptance fee was increased in 2011 from #2,000 to #20,000, In 2014, this same management brought up a killing 300% increment in school fees making the least payable fee by an average new student to be #90,000. During these life-saving struggles, the school management did not relent in using their oppressive hands on students, measures such as school closure, suspension/victimization of students activists have always been adopted inbring students to their kneels. Alas! we are not even protesting against the feek hike anymore, but we are of the position that if students could pay such an acrimonious fee to get educated then our welfare must be catered for. We are saying that the management of the so-called Africa's most beautiful campus should stop giving us colourful and odourful water as pipe-borne water, that there should be constant power supply, then renovate our collapsing lecture theatres vis-a-vis the construction of new hostels so as to provide more accomodation to cater for the increase in the number of admission seekers. The money collected that ought to have been used in putting in place the lacking amenities, is presently being spent in building a multi million naira 12 storey senate building, having previously built three administrative buildings, abandoning one. These I think are quite understandable even to a road-side mechanic.
Alas, the tyrannical school management we've got did not reason along. Instead, they see us as "noise makers" and that our demands are as beautiful as illusions. Instead, they felt the only way they could respond to our demands is by shutting down the school, the only tool that has always been used to SILENCE the students.

However, as a clear- headed students' union, every possible means of amplifying our voices have been adopted, including press comferences, interviews, social media platforms among others. Inspite of all these measures, the government is yet to say a word as regard the illegal and unwarranted closure of the school. What could have caused the silence of the educational stakeholders on OAU's crisis and the oppressive actions of her management? Your guess is as good as mine. It's as a result of the non- challant attitude of FG especially the sadists in the office of the Minister of Education, betterstill a conspiracy to between the office of the minister and the University administrators to further loot the education sector rather than ensuring that the sector is repositioned. FG cant tell us that she is not aware of the OAU saga and the misaction of its management to at every point in time resort to frequent closure of the school as if the university is their personal factory which can be closed anytime and opened whenever they wish. Also, considering the rate at which OAU students utilized every media platform both printed and non-printed version, it's more than true that it's only the dead government that can claim not to hear the cries and yarnings of IFE students.
At this point in time, to proffer a relative sanity to the situation on ground, the Federal government through the office of the Minister of Education need to come out of its shell and address the OAU saga. This will go along way to restall confidence in the mind of the future leaders, safeguard the fundamental human rights of the citizens and 'll also help to forestall peace and relative continuity in the university. Thus, the non-intervention of Federal government in the on-going crisis may further worsen the situation instead of quenching or betterstill prevent future occurences. I am not a prophet of doom but based on IFE's antecedents, there is high probability that the re-opening of the school by the mgmt without the intervention of the government may mark the preparation for another untold crisis. Our management needs to get it right, that problems can never be solved by oppression or tyranny. It only worsen the situation. A system of oppressive managers and radical followers cannot avoid frequent crisis.


#Our demands are meetable and must be me--t.
#IFE students refuse to be silenced.
#We are not commodities, we are humans!
#He who charges heavily must give in return.
#SayNOtoTYRANNY
#WeCONDEMN every form of Financial maradonism in OAU.
#La lucha sigue: Nothing shall discourage us.

Gafar Fatoyinbo Socrates,
Is a 200L student of Social and Sustainablessk development science Education in the Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Baba,how far you?
Well said bro.
Nice articulation!
You taking your time to write this piece calls for applause.Well appreciated Bro.
But I have few questions to ask;

Dis stuborn oau management should do wat d student wants, I don't knw abt odas I am tired of staying at home! Enough battles with jamb, make dem no delay us again wit dis dere yeye mid whatever break. God help us, I reject resuming sept 2016

comradeGafar:
@Darhmmy, and you think students have the right/could be so daft or stupid to embark on strike? Oh! It seems you do not understand the situation of things on campus. Over the years, whenever the management introduces any of her obnoxious policies, the students' union can only react being a pressure group by declaring a lecture boycot which has never in the history of OAU gone beyond 72 hours or to embark on a peaceful protest to press home their demands in which they 'll return back to class immediately after the protest. On no occasion has the students voluntarily announced STRIKE as a way of making a request, it has never happened before. Rather, it has always been the management who because of their unwillingness and non-challant attitude towards the demands of their students always decide to SHUT DOWN the school, infact they wont call it strike as at the point of closing the school, instead, they call it MID-SEMESTER BREAK.

The general public needs to be aware of the fact that IFE students does not have the effontery to proclaim STRIKE, it's erroneous. It's the responsibility and administrative power of the management to decide the closure and opening of the school. It's quite unfortunate seeing the people's perception of OAU's students. Whenever there is closure, we tend to blame the students.
Dont forget, you all chose OAU because of its greatness, let me tell that her greatness was not by accident, MANY STUDENTS, GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS fought (Academically and Alutally) tiredlessly and painstakingly to earn the laudable grearness, to ensure that IFE did not metamorphos into Unilorin or OOU.

With all due respect , I believe you'll rather choose a school that gives you a fixed graduation date than one who always go on "mid-semester break"

It is of interest to know that the same set of people I gained admission with in the same year are currently running the second semester of the first year while I have finished my first year, had a break of four months (in which time I gained lifetime skills) and currently about to finish my first semester examination for my second year

The idea of student unionism and aluta is been abused especially in OAU, why waste people's time at home and the "just cause" you all think you're fighting for never materialises ?? I rather remain at Unilorin(or the advanced secondary school as you prefer to call it) get a degree in precisely four years and forge ahead with life than waste donkey years in school in the name of student unionism and aluta continua whose demands are never met.


Its time for OAU SUG to go back to the drawing board and devise new strategies because its evident your current strategies are as effective as flogging a dead horse !!!!


NO OFFENSE INTENDED
#NoUniversityIsBetterThanTheOther

Prescott001:
This Post above is so useless...
U should have waited to write jamb at age 18/20...
Am sure did person talking is doing a 4-year course..
U have forgotten to check that we have 35 years of service and some pple are already 23 an are just in year One going for Education . because of OAU Now.. They can't work for up to 35 years of service and their age will be more than 60 before their retirement...
On the part of saying uniilorin students are jobless at home.. Pls ur Point is baseless. Reason being that there is no reference or proof.. Show me a jobless uniilorin student I will show u and Oau too... Joblessness is not based on. School OK... The more u pple keep hyping Oau.. The more they continue their madness

I like this guy

Please I need directions from Ife roundabout to where I can get a cab/bus to Ilorin

Your replies would be appreciated


Thanks

Khassy has said the truth oo. It's just that my fellow OAU aspirants hate the truth.

Larrah:
Dis stuborn oau management should do wat d student wants, I don't knw abt odas I am tired of staying at home! Enough battles with jamb, make dem no delay us again wit dis dere yeye mid whatever break. God help us, I reject resuming sept 2016

dis is really serious,ur first post since 2011?

drdrei09:
dis is really serious,ur first post since 2011?

Really serious indeed

drdrei09:
dis is really serious,ur first post since 2011?

lol very serious indeed.