UNILAG Will Admit Only 8,000 Out Of 32,000 Applicants – VC

No fewer than 24,000 applicants to the University of Lagos who scored 200 marks and above will still be unable to secure admission in the institution in the 2017/2018 academic session. The outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rahamon Bello, gave the indication at a forum with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that although 32,000 applicants to the university scored 200 marks and above in this year’s Unified Tertiary matriculation examination (UTME), Unilag would not admit beyond 8,000. Bello said that the university insisted that an applicant must also score at least 40 per cent in Unilag’s post-UTME before consideration for admission. “We know what goes on in our public examinations. That is why we insist on candidates undertaking our post UTME and scoring at least 40 per cent,’’ he said. According to Bello, who steps down as Unilag’s Vice-Chancellor on Nov. 11, the aim is to promote excellence. “We admit the best so that we can produce the best,’’ he stated. He said that the university held 75 inaugural lectures during his five-year tenure in an effort to promote scholarship. The professor of chemical engineering noted that the university had held a total of 374 inaugural lectures since its existence. Bello revealed further that the university produced 103 professors in the past five years, representing about 20 per cent of the 292 professors it had produced in its 55 years of existence. “They just don’t come and get them; the process of becoming a professor in Unilag is very tedious. “We have peer review from inside and outside and we have interview internally, so that at the end, you know why you are promoted or why you are not,’’ he said. Bello said that Unilag had to change its curriculum in a bid to sustain academic excellence. “We are neither a technology university nor a business university; we are comprehensive, except for agriculture. “The only agriculture we do is marine.’’ He expressed satisfaction at the performance of the university in its new fields of study such as cell biology and genetics. “When we started them, they were almost nothing. “Cell biology and genetics, for instance, are the ones that drive the health sector when you talk about working in the sub-cell region, especially in the area of In-Vitro-Fertilisation (IVF). He also expressed delight at the performance of the university’s creative arts department. “When we started it, some saw it as laughable. Today, most of our graduates are the ones making money in Nollywood,’’ Bello said. Bello, the 11th Vice-Chancellor of the university, came into office in 2012, following the death of the then Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe. Bello will be succeeded by Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the university’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics).

MAPOLY Crisis: Tension As School Management Locks Out Lecturers

The Management of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta on Thursday locked out members of the National Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, in Nigeria from the school premises. This followed the declaration of indefinite strike action by the Academic Staff Union of the institution. The National Executive Council of ASUP which scheduled its press conference in the school on the “Deplorable condition of polytechnic education in Nigeria” had to hold the conference at the school gate. Speaking to reporters, the Union’s zonal coordinator, Olawale Omobaorun said, “They say we are not going to enter, and we are trying to tow the line of peace, we will stay at the gate and address the press.” He alleged that the state governor was after the Chairman of the MAPOLY Chapter of ASUP, Comrade Kola Abiola. He added, “The government of the state is after our chairman and that is why you are not seeing the chairman here today. “Let the world know that the life of Com. Kola Abiola is in threat. If anything happens we will be ready to face the government.” Also speaking, the ASUP President, Malam Usman Dutse lamented the sorry state of polytechnic education all over the country. The statement, which was read by the Vice President, Timothy Ogunseye, said, “If well harnessed will boost Nigeria’s technological know-how, improve ICT, create millions of employment opportunities and raise the level of both theoretical and practical technological literacy. The Union said governments at all levels had keyed to annihilation of the Polytechnic sector, which “feeds and caters for millions of youths and families. It cited some issues facing the sector, which include, “Sorry state of State-owned institutions; victimization of Union officers; withdrawal of allowances; among others. “Polytechnics and monotechnics belonging to state governments have continued to wallow in deplorable conditions. “Chapter chairmen in various polytechnics in the country have been sacked in glaring cases of victimization while there have been no intervention.” The Union also decried what it called “Infractions in the appointment of Rectors”, citing MAPOLY as an example. It said MAPOLY can “boast of about 30 chief lecturers with fifty seven Ph.D holders”

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