Thursday, June 26, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact
Newsroom Nigeria
  • Home
  • News
    • Across the Nation
    • Crime Watch
    • Metro
    • Political Arena
  • Politics
  • Opinions
  • Crime and Court
    • Judiciary
  • Business
    • Banking
    • Business and Economy
    • Business Life
No Result
View All Result
Newsroom Nigeria
Home News

OAU VC CRISIS: ANOTHER GROUP CALLS FOR PROBE OF SELECTION PROCESS

Dr Gbolade alleged that ” the secrecy surrounding the exercise is highly suspicious.

Newsroom Nigeria by Newsroom Nigeria
March 26, 2022
in News
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Despite the return of normalcy to the Campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU following the protracted protest by Ile-Ife indigenes over the emergence of a new Vice Chancellor for the University, the crisis is far from being over.

In a fresh development, members of the Ife Progressives Forum, an umbrella body of Ile-Ife indigenes have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to look into the selection process of the Vice Chancellor in the interest of Justice.
At a Press Conference in Ile-Ife, addressed by the President of the Ife Progressives Forum, Dr Famoriyo Gbolade, the Ile-Ife indigenes maintained that the selection process of the head of the Obafemi Awolowo University was manipulated against the emergence of an Ife person.
Dr Gbolade who presented a table tagged “Academic Profile of the Contestants” submitted that Professor R. A Adedoyin an Ife indigene from the University and Professor O. D Makinde an Idea person who applied from outside were the most qualified of the sixteen scholars screeners for the job of the OAU VC, yet a less qualified person was selected.
” Despite producing many qualified academics over the years, a deliberate mechanism has been put in place to ensure that no indigene has gotten to the post. Now, given precedence set in other federal schools including Universities of Benin, Ibadan and Ilorin, where deliberate efforts were made to appoint indigenes to VC posts, the argument is what is different about Ife?”
Dr Gbolade alleged that ” the secrecy surrounding the exercise is highly suspicious. There was path administered on the members of selection Committee, before the interviews were conducted and after, and during the process of compiling the results.”
Responding to a question on the alleged Protest of traditional worshipers on the campus, the Coordinator of Ife Youths Organization, Mr Abimbola Afolabi explained that what happened on campus was not ritual but prayers to appease God.
Mr Afolabi said if not for the suspension of the protest, there was arraignment to have both Christians and Muslim faithful conduct their own prayer on the University campus.
Recall that following the last week announcement of Professor Adebayo Bamire as the new Vice Chancellor of the University, some residents of Ile-Ife had embarked on protest to draw attention to what they described as a manipulated process to deliberately deny Ife indigene of becoming the Vice Chancellor of the institution.

Related posts

Fidelity MD, Onyeali-Ikpe Urges Women to Embrace Lifelong Learning and Collaboration for Career Success

June 22, 2025

WEST AFRICA MUST TURN DEMOGRAPHIC STRENGTH AND MINERAL WEALTH INTO JOBS AND INDUSTRY, SAYS TINUBU

June 21, 2025

– Radio NIgeria Ibadan

ShareTweetSendShareShare
Previous Post

COURT JAILS LAGOS SOCIALITE WHO WHO SHARED PETROL AS SOUVENIR AT PARTY

Next Post

APC CONVENTION: FULL RESULT AT A GLANCE

Related Posts

BANKING

Fidelity MD, Onyeali-Ikpe Urges Women to Embrace Lifelong Learning and Collaboration for Career Success

June 22, 2025
Foreign

WEST AFRICA MUST TURN DEMOGRAPHIC STRENGTH AND MINERAL WEALTH INTO JOBS AND INDUSTRY, SAYS TINUBU

June 21, 2025
Foreign

NIGERIA, BENIN SIGN INTEGRATION AGREEMENT AS PRESIDENTS TINUBU, TALON LEAD CALL FOR REGIONAL REFORMS

June 21, 2025
Foreign

GLOBAL ECONOMY WILL NOT WAIT FOR WEST AFRICA TO GET ITS ACT TOGETHER – TINUBU TELLS ECOWAS

June 21, 2025
INAUGURAL LECTURE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OFFERS NEW PERSPECTIVES IN MARKETING
Education/Human Capital

INAUGURAL LECTURE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OFFERS NEW PERSPECTIVES IN MARKETING

June 25, 2025
JUDICIARY

Seven Chinese Nationals Jailed for Cyberterrorism, Internet Fraud in Lagos

June 21, 2025
Next Post

APC CONVENTION: FULL RESULT AT A GLANCE

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Bank Manager, Four Others Arraigned for Allegedly Hacking Bank Server

1 month ago

Julius Berger Parleys Media Executives in Lagos, Says Company  is the Most Widely  Reported Engineering Construction Company in Nigeria

2 years ago

Viewpoint: Tinubu’s Reforms and Why We Admonish No Retreat, No Surrender

1 year ago

AGONY OF A LAGOS LAWYER: HOW LASTMA OFFICIALS STOLE MY DOLLARS AND HANDSET

2 years ago

FOLLOW US

POPULAR NEWS

  • Troops Foil Deadly Terrorist Attack In Niger State, Lose 17 Soldiers

    Troops Foil Deadly Terrorist Attack In Niger State, Lose 17 Soldiers

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • TAU Students Win Big   at National Innovation Challenge

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ADEBAYO HELD ALOFT THE BANNER OF THE UPN, LED BY OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, TINUBU PENS TRIBUTE TO A TRUE STATESMAN

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • TINUBU SIGNS  FOUR TAX BILLS INTO LAW TO TRANSFORM FISCAL, REVENUE FRAMEWORK

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • INEC Receives Applications To Register Obidients People’s Party (OPP), 109 Other Political Parties Registration

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Newsroom Nigeria

This independent, liberal online news platform aims to inform citizens about important issues. NEWSROOM NIGERIA covers political, business, economic, national, and international news. They are committed to journalism ethics and hold the government accountable.

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact

© 2025 Newsroom Nigeria - Designed by Semasir Connect.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Across the Nation
    • Crime Watch
    • Metro
    • Political Arena
  • Politics
  • Opinions
  • Crime and Court
    • Judiciary
  • Business
    • Banking
    • Business and Economy
    • Business Life

© 2025 Newsroom Nigeria - Designed by Semasir Connect.