Behold! the First Female Professor From Ilorin Emirate

History was made in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital about a fortnight ago when the management of the University of Ilorin included Mrs. Medinat Folorunso Salman in the list of the institution's newly appointed professors. By her appointment, Medinat Salman who teaches Mathematics Education at the university thus became the first female professor from Ilorin Emirate. It was therefore not surprising when the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, deemed it fit to organise a special prayer in his palace to mark Salman's appointment. The new professor of Mathematics was honoured by the Emir alongside the new Vice-Chancellor of UNILORIN, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali; and three other newly appointed professors who all hail from Ilorin Emirate; Professors Badmas Lanre Yusuf, Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi and Yusuf Adebayo AbdulKareem. Speaking with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY shortly after the prayer session at the Emir's palace, Professor Medinat Salman said that she has always prayed and worked hard to be part of the emirate's success story. This determination she said spurred her to achieve the feat of emerging as the first female professor from the emirate. She, however, disclosed that the achievement she has recorded and now being celebrated by friends and associates was not without encountering various challenges both at the home front and at her work place. Salman added that her good intention to impart positively on the lives of others as well as being a good example to the womenfolk in the emirate has always been her drive right from her youthful age. The female professor, who bemoaned the low rate of women acquiring education in the emirate, however, pointed out that though it is not easy combining career with the demands of duties at the home front but with hard work and commitment, one would scale through. According to her, biologically both male and female are the same, even though man is the head of the family "but if you are determined whatever the men can achieve, as a woman you can also do it". "Even if it requires waking up in the midnight, one would have to do it so. I don't believe that there is anything the female cannot do, we are only different structurally". Source allafrica.com

Gunmen Kill Dozens Of Students In Northeast Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Assailants shot or stabbed to death at least 25 people in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, officials said Tuesday. Authorities believe students may have been behind the attacks in Mubi, but that town and the surrounding region also have suffered from a spate of killings by the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect. The latest attack occurred between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday when assailants invaded student accommodations outside the campus of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi college, said one of its students, Danjuma Aiso. Twenty-seven students were killed, forcing the school to close Tuesday, said Aiso, citing information from the school's Students Affairs officer Mohammed Baba Karewa. The Associated Press could not immediately reach Karewa for comment. Adamawa state police spokesman Ibrahim Muhammad said 25 men were killed: 19 students of Federal Polytechnic Mubi, three students of another college, an ex-soldier, a security guard and an elderly man. "The crisis in Mubi is suspected to have been fueled by campus politics after an election at the (college)," Yushau Shuaib, the spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement. Across colleges and universities in Nigeria, some fraternities have turned to gang violence to wield power on campuses. "Boko Haram (attackers) open fire sporadically," said Muhammad. "In this case, the attackers called their victims by name and left other people in the room alone. This is not the modus operandi of Boko Haram." "It is the work of insiders," Muhammad said. Police said that student elections held last week could have been the motivation for the violence. But Aiso said students had recently found a written warning pasted on the gate of the female hostel inside the campus and which is widely believed to have been written by members of the Boko Haram sect. The message ordered authorities to evacuate the school, he said. source http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Kano Varsity Students Protest VC's Removal

Kano — Students of Kano State University of Technology (KUT) Wudil yesterday protested what they described as premature removal of the institution's Vice Chancellor. The students of the tertiary institution blocked portion of the Kano-Wudil road, preventing vehicles from entering or leaving the state for hours and causing massive traffic build up. Hundreds of passengers traveling to the north eastern part of the country for today's sallah festival were held up for hours, according to eyewitnesses. The protest, which was said to be peaceful, was sparked after the announcement of appointment of new vice chancellor for the state-owned institution. Daily Trust gathered that the decision to replace the university's head was taken at the state executive council meeting on Wednesday, where the name of Professor UG Dambatta was approved as replacement. The students told Daily Trust that the institution fared well and recorded massive infrastructure improvement during the tenure of the outgoing VC, Professor Ibrahim Garba Riruwai. They argued that he was not allowed to fully serve his tenure, which was to lapse in the next one year. "I used to be ashamed whenever I was having a visitor on campus. But within just three years after Baba's (Professor Garba) appointment, we are having an institution that gives us pride to host anybody," said KUT's Student Union Government (SUG) president, Mohammed Yusuf Mohammed. "If it is in the interest of educating us that they are removing him, we will call on government to rescind the decision because it will be difficult for them to get a better replacement for him," he added. Contacted, Kano State Com-missioner for Higher Education, Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa said the state executive council approved the change based on the recommendation by a visitation panel to the university headed by AB Mahmud SAN. The commissioner also noted that since it was Governor Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso who established the university in 2000, he would not do anything that can truncate its development. Source www.allafrica.com

Nigerian Student Breaks World Record, Scores 4.0 Over 4.0 in Turkish Varsity

A genius could be referred to as an exceptional child who is academically sound. But, how would you describe an individual who never misses a point in his examinations from first year in the university to the final year? If there is any adjective to qualify such a person, that word could best describe Tunji Olu-Taiwo, an Engineering student of Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus who obtained 4.0 CGPA out of 4.0 CGPA, the first ever in the department. Encomiums have continued to be showered on Tunji Olu-Taiwo from various quarters, because his impressive performance has placed him in the spotlight. Over the years, Nigeria's human resources have ranked among the best in the world partly due to the profound efforts of critical-minded parents that stimulate the astuteness that hides within every student, begging for whom to push the trigger. Tunji Olu-Taiwo, who hails from Ifako-Ijaye Local Government Area of Lagos State, emerged the best graduating student from the Faculty of Engineering, obtaining a status of High Honours (first class). Tunji is the first African to have bagged such a status in the Department of Engineering, obtaining a degree in Engineering on a Grade Point Average of 4.00 out of 4.00 (straight A's). Amid great honour and eulogy sang by the students and academic, expressing marvel at the development, Vanguard met with Tunji in an online chat to speak more on his success. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg as Role Model "I am looking up to Mark Zuckerberg, he is a genius I love to emulate," Tunji said. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the five co-founders of the social networking site, Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook. Inc. Source allafrica.com

Oyedepo plans 4 more universities, blames leaders for woes

Bishop David Oyedepo, chancellor of the Covenant university believes that the problems facing Nigeria today stem from illiterate leadership.
Oyedepo said this at the World Press Conference\Media Launch of the 10th Founders Day Anniversary at Covenant University, Otta, Ogun State.
The anniversary has the theme: “Celebrating a Decade of Scaling Visionary Heights’’.
“The value system has completely been eroded and we must all rise to the challenge.
“I remember in the good old days, parents were passionate about how they brought up their children by constantly reminding them of the need to uphold integrity and make it their watchword.
“Today, it is a different orientation and perception about how to live in the society as the same parents seem to be singing a different song by encouraging their children and wards to go all out and get things done, irrespective of how it is done,’’ he said.

Students Protest In Ijebu-Ode

Students of Tai Solarin College of Education, TACOED, Ijebu in Odogbolu local government area of Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, this morning stormed the streets protesting the prolonged crisis between the unions of the institution and its management.
The protest commenced about 6a.m. when the students in their hundreds arrived the campus and sent away workers who wanted to enter their offices.
Led by their president, Comrade Oladimeji Bashorun and student’s union government speaker, Shakiru Adekunle, the students deflated the tryes of vehicles driven by staff who wanted to drive into the campus. They barricaded the gate and made bonfires with disused tyres at the entrance of the institution.

EFCC Arrest Mapoly Staff Over N.1 Billion Fraud

Abeokuta — Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested three Executive members of the Non-Academic Staff union (NASU) of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta,MAPOLY for allegedly mismanaging a sum of N.1billion sinking funds.
Saturday Vanguard gathered that,the three officers who were arrested in handcuff on Thursday include; NASU Chairman, Secretary and treasurer; Mr. Odeogbola Jekinmose,Lekan Egbewunmi and Taiwo Samsideen respectively following a petition by aggrieved members of the union.
It was reliably gathered that,part of their sins is that, the arrested principal officers allocated loans to themselves in excess of what they could repay, going by their earnings.
It would be recalled that Governor Ibikunle Amosun, had, on assumption of office constituted a panel of enquiry to cleanse the Polytechnic of its rot but has failed to implement the recommendations of the panel as headed by the respected retired Justice Bakre, thereby deepening the mess in the Polytechnic.

No One Will Build the Country for us Except We Locals - Daniel Nwodi

Daniel Chinedu Nwodi, is another young Nigerian who is taking the message of change from Nigeria to Republic of Benin where he recently organized the World Youth Summit under the platform of Students without Borders that he established.
His work has also taken him to the United Arab Emirates where he spoke at an international meeting. Daniel tells us how it all started and what motivates him to serve humanity from Asaba, Delta State.
My upbringing
I was born on 28th November, 1981. I attended Aanu Oluwapo Primary school at Oke Odo, Alimosho, Lagos where I got my first school leaving certificate.
I went on to State High School, Oyewole, Agege, Lagos where I completed my secondary education. I studied French Language at Beninese Centre for Foreign Language under the University of Abomey Calavi, Benin.

Christians Targeted in Nigeria’s University Killings, Students Sa

The gunmen who killed at least 46 people in Nigeria’s northwestern town of Mubi on Monday (Oct. 1) first asked them if they were Christians before shooting or knifing them, according to students who escaped the carnage.
Two students from the off-campus housing site in the Mubi suburb of Wuro Fatuje, Adamawa state, where the massacre took place, told Morning Star News that the assailants were ethnic Hausa Muslims who shouted “Allahu Akbar [Allah is greater]” as they shot or stabbed hostel residents. One of the students said the assailants also torched a church building in nearby Tudun Wada the same night.
The students speculated that non-Christian victims among the dead were killed by mistake or suspected of collaborating with security agency raids in Mubi last month that resulted in the round-up of 156 members of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram and the death of one of its leaders.
The gunmen invaded the off-campus housing site serving three Mubi schools – Federal Polytechnic, School of Health Technology and Adamawa State University – at about 10 p.m., “forcing into students’ rooms and asking those they identified as Christians to recant their Christian faith,” said one of the students residing at the site. “Those who refused to do so were either shot or had their throats cut with knives.”