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Registrar warns Unilorin students against violating dress code

April 3, 2023 No Comments

Dr Fola Olowoleni, the registrar of the University of Ilorin, on Monday, warned the students against violating the dress code of the institution.

Ms Olowoleni, who gave the warning during a meeting she held with members of the Dress Code Committee of the Institution, charged them to enforce the dress code in the University.

She also reminded the committee to also enforce regular use of Identity Cards (ID), which she stressed, is part of the dress code of the University.

She emphasised the need for the committee to be active and alive to their responsibilities in making sure the campuses are rid of indecent dressing among students and the entire members of the University community.

The registrar pointed out that failure to hang ID cards by members of the University community is also a violation of the Dress Code.

She stressed that members of the committee should make sure that the new dress code is passed to the students and the University community through sensitisation before the examinations.

She explained that there is a need for the inclusion of student representatives and counseling units in the drive to ensure that proper dress code is achieved.

“Part of the dress code is the use of ID cards and it is important to always hang them. I will lead the committee on that and expect all members to also follow. You must show an example,” she said.

Ms Olowoleni, however, reminded members of the committee to follow due process in attending to all cases affecting culprits among students and staff, as well as visitors to the University.

“We need heavy sensitisation before the examinations. Student representatives and counseling units must be included in the committee membership.

“There should be regular meetings involving members of the committee and those of their various units,” she said.

According to her, the student’s various platforms and other social media handles must also be used, including the LED Screens in the campuses to sensitise them.

She warned that violators would be arrested by university authority and sanctioned.Some of the forbidden dress on campus includes dresses that exposes any sensitive part of the body, including cleavage, chest, back, navel, thigh and armpit.

Others are tight fitting wears, transparent, tattered Jeans, ripped Jeans; and T-shirts with obscene inscriptions, depicting immorality, and hooliganism among others.

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New UNILORIN Vice Chancellor promises fairness

September 12, 2022 No Comments

The Vice Chancellor-designate of the University of Ilorin, Prof Wahab Egbewole (SAN), has promised that his administration will be fair to all.

A press statement released on Sunday by the university’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, quoted Egbewole as saying

“the University of Ilorin is greater than all of us and we want to extend our hands of fellowship to all our colleagues who also applied for this post and appeal that they should join hands with us to do this work collectively and in an all-inclusive manner.”

He sought the support of all stakeholders “in the discharge of the onerous tasks ahead.”

Alumni advise VC

Meanwhile, the University of Ilorin Alumni Association on Sunday advised Egbewole to take the university to a greater height than where it was.

The association, through its Chairman and Coordinator, Prof Jeleel Ojuade, said the university had created a niche for itself in the comity of tertiary institutions in Africa, adding that Egbewole could not have come at a more auspicious time to lift it beyond what it was.

The alumni association said Egbewole’s “appointment did not come to us as a surprise judging by your profound scholarly erudition and immense administrative experience.”

It added that it would “like to put it on record that your previous strings of successes in your earlier assignments within and outside the university, especially your immediate professional community, the Nigerian Bar Association, are a testament as well as an indicator of a successful outing even in this new role.”

The alumni body said the onerous task before him is to take the institution from where it is today to a new height where it could compete favourably with any other institution anywhere in the world.

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List of Nigerian universities that have announced resumption dates after 9 months of ASUU strike.

January 5, 2021 No Comments

From late March to December 2020, Nigerian public universities were locked due to the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

After months of negotiations, the lecturers’ union finally suspended the strike on Wednesday, December 23.

However, schools could not resume immediately as the nation had already entered the festive period filled with public holidays. Similarly, the federal government also directed all universities in the country to suspend academic activities due to the spread of COVID-19.

The directive was issued by the National Universities Commission (NUC) via a circular signed by its deputy executive secretary administration, Chris Maiyaki.

However, some universities have now announced their resumption dates. Legit.ng in this piece lists three public universities that are set to resume academic activities in January.

List of Nigerian universities that have announced resumption dates after 9 months of ASUU strike.

University of Ilorin : The management of the University of Ilorin has declared that the institution would resume full academic activities for the Rain semester on January 11, 2021. After 9-month-old strike, Nigerian university cancels academic session, announces fresh resumption date The university explained that lectures will, however, be delivered online in line with the directives of the NUC.
Bayero University Kano (BUK) : The Senate of Bayero University Kano (BUK) has approved the cancellation of 2019-2020 academic sessions. According to the Senate, new academic session for undergraduate students will begin on Monday, January 18, 2021 as the first semester, while the second semester will begin on Monday, May 3, 2021. For the postgraduate students, the Senate slated Monday, January 18 as the date to resume for the first semester while the second semester will begin on Tuesday, June 1.
University of Benin in Benin City (UNIBEN) : All returning students (old and new) of the University of Benin in Benin City (UNIBEN), Edo state, have been also directed by the management of the institution to resume for 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 academic sessions on January 30, 2021.