NUC grants Elizade varsity full licence
The National Universities Commission has granted Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State Full Operational (Statutory) Licence to operate as a private university in the country.
The issuance of the full operational licence to the University followed the institution’s outstanding performance during the commission’s Institutional Accreditation visit to the University.
It will be recalled that the Federal Executive Council at its meeting of Wednesday, 22nd February, 2012, considered and approved a Provisional Licence for the establishment the University. The FEC approval was later conveyed to the university by the commission in a letter dated, 28th February, 2012.
OAU loses accreditation for Law, Dentistry, Botany
The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has lost accreditation for four of the courses offered in the institution.
The National Universities Commission reportedly suspended the university’s law, dentistry, medical rehabilitation, and botany programmes, The Cable reports.
Prospective students who selected any of the four courses in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been asked to change their course or institution.
A message was sent to the candidates by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to inform them of the changes.
“Your first choice course did not receive accreditation. Login to your profile and change course/institutions,” the message read.
This is not the first time the institution is experiencing this such as the accreditation of the Law Faculty was previously withdrawn in 2006.
The Cable notes that there are also reports that botany never got full accreditation since its inception as a course at the university.
The institution’s spokesperson, Mr Abiodun Olarenwaju, confirmed the development to The Cable.
Olarenwaju, however, said the withdrawal of accreditation would be sorted out by September.
“We are going to sort it out, latest by September, and everything will come back to shape,” he was quoted as saying.
Osun lecturers protest 16 months unpaid salaries, to down tools
It was gathered that the Osun State College of Education, Ilesa, had been scheduled to start its industrial action on Friday (today).
The Chairman, Osun State College of Education Academic Staff Union, Ilesa, Mr Olusegun Lana, who led other lecturers in a protest march on the college premises on Thursday, said the state government had refused to fulfil its part of the agreement reached with lecturers.
Lana, who is also the chairman of the Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned Tertiary Institutions, said the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, would start its strike action on August 7, adding that the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, would commence its strike action on August 8, while the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, would start on August 15.
Lana said the strike would be total because lecturers could no longer afford transport fares to their workplaces, while members of their families were finding it difficult to feed due to the issue of modulated salaries which had lasted for 34 months.