By Wole Balogun
(S A Media to the VC).
As part of efforts to showcase laudable achievements of the Management under the administrative supervision of the Dr. Mohammed Yahuza led Governing Council, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina addressed journalists of both the print and electronic media on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at the Council Chambers.
In an almost two-hour Powerpoint presentation of the achievements tagged: Raising the Bar, Prof. Fasina took the Reporters through his fruitful journey of a year since assumption of office on February 11, 2021.
We present the snippets of the presentation here:
FUOYE will get its first set of students for Medicine in May, 2022.
The University has 27,807 students currently. May hit almost 40,000 after the on-going admission excercise for the 2021/2022 academic session is concluded.
Council meetings of the University are being held regularly unlike what obtains in the previous administration.
The Bursary unit of the University is being properly and robustly re-positioned for optimal performance and this is an intiative of the new Acting Bursar, Mrs. Bolanle Debo-Ajagunna.
Management meetings, where all issues and matters arising are exhaustively deliberated on and addressed properly, are being held on Mondays.
In such meetings, decisions that affect the growth and development of the University are jointly taken.
Meetings of the Business Committee of Senate holds regularly to ensure exams results are ready on time.
FUOYE Farm has been heavily equipped with provision of tractor with its adjoining parts, as well as other equipment. This is yeilding great returns.
The farm is being repositioned to make it assume a mechanized farming system that generate very huge IGR for the University. It is already living up to its expectations.
FUOYE has enjoyed full accreditation by NUC in most of our academic programmes.
We are challenging our Professors to present inuagural lectures; We want the lectures to now hold monthly and we have lined up a number of seven Professors to deliver inaugural lectures for the next seven months from February, 2022.
A good number of our academic staff members have won grants worth millions of Naira into the University.
We currently have 74 Professors and 51 Readers. We hope to promote up to 100 academic staff members to Professorial cadres in five years but we will not compromise standard nor subvert the process.
Let us as lecturers, especially as senior lecturers and Professors, give the best to our students as this yeilds better results for our well being in the future.
The Management now has very cordial and more fruitful relationship with the labour unions on the campus, hence there is peace, stability and progress.
The student leadership body, ably led by Comrade Teslim Taiwo, has given a letter of appreciation to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, in recognition of his purposeful and positively impactful leadership.
The introduction of e-Voting into the last students’ Union polls has made the exercise to be fool-proof, devoid of rancour, confusion and or rigging; the VC therefore urges the Nigerian electoral umpire, INEC, as well as other stakeholders, to consider e-voting in putting paid to several unpleasant challenges in our electoral processes in Nigeria.
There are now CCTV cameras at strategic points on the campus as part of security measures; henceforth, persons with criminal intents are forewarned.
Computer Based Test (CBT) are being deployed robustly through the University ICT unit to cater for exams for large classes.
11 new classrooms are being constructed from the IGR to cater for the increasing number of students and create more conducive learning and teaching environment on the twin campuses of the University.
Other infrastructural projects’ constructions are on going at various spots on the twin campuses of the University in Oye and Ikole.
The Prof. Fasina-led administration has 20 points agenda for profound growth and development of FUOYE and these are being aggressively pursued.
Our newly planned Agric-Business will follow the pattern of the President of African Development Bank, Dr. Femi Adesina’s template for optimal performance.
Our faculties are now playing very impactful roles to improve on the meaningful growth and development of the University; while the faculty of Environmental Sciences has assisted in mapping out and designing our campus for the purposes of proper landscaping, the faculty of science has developed a Covid 19 vaccine and submitted to NAFDAC for approval. The faculty of Arts has in place a registration point for NIN.
Also, there is already a model for the University’s proposed College of Medicine complex and FUOYE Teaching Hospital to be sited in Oye-Ekiti as has been designed free of charge by the faculty of Management Sciences. This is done with the cost for the construction.
We now have a Covid 19 vaccination centre in FUOYE, courtesy of the University Health Centre.
We are spreading our tentacles to have sattelite campuses in surrounding communities.
To encourage cutting edge researches, we have established a Research, Innovation and Linkages Centre; also, a Research Policy of the University is now available for all.
There is now an improved road network on the main campuses in Oye and Ikole. More of this is coming to further open up the campuses.
To engender seamless, effective and corruption free transactions, we will soon finalize the computerization of the University Bursary Unit.
There will be more computer training for staff members.
Staff members who wish to study to earn higher degrees now enjoy 50 percent subsidy on school fees.
FUOYE is fifth most subscribed University on admissions.
We have treated 110 aggrieved cases to allow peace to reign among members of the University community.
Our staff members, both academic and non-academic, now enjoy robust scholarship home and abroad.
FUOYE is now in charge of the Nursing Department at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti; We will admit more students for Nursing for the 2021/2022 academic session.
Adequate security measures are in place to deal with cases of internet fraudsters (Yahooyahoo) who are harassing students of the University and stakeholders are enjoyed to join us in this fight.
For the future, we are working assiduously to be globally competitive and highly relevant.
