Unilorin has not experienced strikes in 17 years – VC

Date: 2017-01-11

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, on Tuesday said the university had not experienced workers' strikes or students' unrest in the last 17 years.

The V-C stated this at an interactive session with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State.

He admitted that this was one of the reasons why the University had remained the most sought after by admission seekers for more than four years consecutively.

Ambali, however, said that the university had continued to have its fair share of challenges and "we are tackling them".

He said: "January 2017 will be the 17th year that the University of Ilorin will continue to be consistent in opening its doors to students."

The V-C recounted some of the challenges his management had faced since October 2012 when he assumed office, saying there is no road that is smooth or trouble-free.

Ambali said: "The road to heaven is not easy; you have to work for it. "If you are a Muslim, you have to pray five times daily; you have to fast and you have to, in fact, abide by the five pillars of Islam. "If you are a Christian, it has its own protocol. It is not easy to achieve what the protocol states."

The Vice-Chancellor used the occasion to clarify what he called the current misinformation about changes in the costs and delays in the delivery of the PC tablets to the students.

He said: "To start with, the tablet project started four years ago when we conceived the idea to make University of Ilorin's graduates well-equipped for the challenges of the outside world which they will soon face when they leave here."

Ambali said that until sometimes in 2015, when the naira began to depreciate significantly in value, the project was smooth and trouble-free.

The V-C added that most operations in the university were digital, adding that the business of the university's Senate was paperless.

He said: "You will not see professors and senate members of the university carrying lots of pamphlets in their hands going to the senate chambers. "Unilorin was the first to start the Computer-Based Test in the country. We started it more than 10 years ago."

He said that for the university to be having a paperless Senate, having cashless environment, the teaching and learning on the campus have to be ICT-based.

He said it was heart-warming to hear laudable achievements from students of the university at their various NYSC camps and the offices where they were employed.

On the issue of accommodation, the VC said: "When we started the project about four years ago, about 3,000 out of over 30,000 students that we had were accommodated on the campus.

"The present administration under my leadership embarked on an advocacy to sell the university to friends of the University. "This was done to attract them to come and build hostels on our campus under the Federal Government's directive of Build-Operate-and-Transfer."

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Council Of The Wise     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Bola Shagaya     Nigerian Correctional Service     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Mansur Alfanla     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Busari Alabi Alausa     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Sabi     Yahaya Jibril Usman     GAMA     Bayer AG     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Balogun-Ojomu     Emmanuel Bello     Al-Hikmah University     Earlyon Technologies     Iqra Books     Abdulwahab Ololele     Ajikobi     Kwara State Government     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Ahmed     3MTT     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Lanre Olosunde     Oyin-Zubair     Aiyedun     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Saka Isau     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Towoju     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Alabere     Aisha Gobir     Ganiyu Abolarin     Abiodun Oyedepo     ANCOPPS     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Yusuf Abubakar     Kwara University Of Education     Nigerian Medical Association     Transition Implementation Committee     Tope Daramola     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Summit University     Sadiq Umar     Ahmad Ali     Omotosho     Zainab Abass     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Balogun Gambari     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Plat Technologies Limited     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Pategi     Adeniyi Ojo     Public Holiday     Solomon Edoja     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Lukman Adeloyin     Alfa Belgore     Kwara State Pension Board     JUSUN     Shehu Adaramaja     SWAN     Simeon Ajibola     Nigeria Computer Society     LABTOP     Ibrahim Abiodun     Atunwa     Ndama Al-hassan     Abdulhakeem Amao    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrasheed Lafia     Olugbense     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Toyosi Thomas     Diagnostic Centre     Student Learning Support Helpline     Local Government Pension Board     Firdaos Amasa     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     NTA Ilorin     Okedare     GANZY     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Doyin Awoyale     Moro     Erubu Oba Zubair     Gbenga Adebayo     Yusuf Ali     Musa Yeketi     United Nigeria Congress Party     Shuaib Olarongbe     Ileloke     Akume     Abubakar Ndakene     Adesoye     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Kwara Polytechnic     Okiki     Bola Tinubu     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Ejidongari     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Mufti Of Ilorin     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ariyo     Monsurat Omotosho     Jide Oyinloye     Henry Makinwa     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Rashidi Yekini     Agboola Babatunde     Ajuloopin     Gobir     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Ajia-Bako     Shero     Shettima Of Ilorin     Abdulazeez Arowona     Kolawole Akande     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Saba Jibril     Sam Okaula     Waheed Ibrahim     Fatimoh Lawal     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Moses Adekanye     Farouk Salim     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Olayinka Are     Modibo Kawu     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     SDP     Hausa     Kwara Apc     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Gbenga Awoyale     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Ebola     Ronke Adeyemi     KWAFFA     Smart School     Ile Arugbo