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It's now official. LAUTECH will most definitely resume before the end of January. The management of LAUTECH has confirmed that the university will resume before the end of January, 2017.  However, no specific date has been announced. This was made known today in a statement issued on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor by the school's Registrar, J.A Agboola.

Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has officially announced that LAUTECH will resume activities on or before February 1. He made this known in a statement issued by his Special Adviser Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, after a meeting with the national, Zonal and State Leadership of the students’ unions in his office, on Friday evening. This is coming as a confirmation to our earlier report where we exclusively confirmed this from the NANS Oyo Chairman, Toheeb Niniola. Ajimobi also confirmed that LAUTECH Vice-chancellor, Prof.  Adeniyi Gbadegesin, was involved in the conversation during the meeting on Friday. According to the statement, representatives of the Oyo and Osun states had met last Tuesday in Osogbo to agree on the way out of the crisis prior to Friday’s round of talks which led to the agreement to reopen the school.

This rumor is not entirely true. Read the analysis below. A report surfaced on WhatsApp Friday evening claiming that Oyo state Governor, Ajimobi, declared that LAUTECH will resume on the 15th of January after a meeting with some ‘LAUTECH representatives’ in Ibadan. The report which was supposedly written by the senior assistant to Governor Abiola Ajimobi on youth and student affairs, Afeez Bolaji Repete, went further to claim that Governor Ajimobi called Osun state governor, Aregbesola, on the phone, and they agreed to pay N200 million each into LAUTECH account for outstanding allowances and salaries. One reason why this is statement seemed unrealistic is because on Thursday, prior to the report, both Oyo and Osun state governors made a joint statement  appealing to student of LAUTECH and their parents to bear with them as they were still awaiting the final report and recommendation from the Visiting Panel headed by Chief Wole Olanipeku (SAN) .

NAUS CONDEMNED ATTACK ON STUDENT UNION PRESIDENT BY THE AGENTS OF GOVERNOR SAMUEL ORTOM OF BENUE STATE The attention of the leadership of National Association of University Students' (NAUS) had been drawn to the attack made by the agents of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State against comrade Bobby,student union president of Benue State University,Markurdi during the emergency congress called yesterday by the leadership of student union to decide the next line of action on the strike. The university student body see the action of the Governor of Benue State as ungodly,uncalled for and total embarrassing. NAUS therefore pass a vote of no confidence on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State for his lackadaisical attitude towards the student leaders in the state. The association hereby advise the Governor to resolve the crisis rocking in the state owned university within two weeks and failure of which would lead to a protest. We also appeal to our students to remain calm a...

Image Credit: news.lautech.edu.ng LAUTECH seemed to have heard the outcry of her students and taken a commendable step to ensure their happiness, and have vindicated herself from the ultimatum threatened by NAUS . According to the Ag. Registrar, J.A Agboola, the portals will be left open till August 10, giving students extra grace to pay their fees, and the suspended examinations will commence will full effect from Tuesday, July 21 (for 100-Level Students).

Image Credit: Osundefender.org The President of  NAUS on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 took to Facebook to express the opinion of the leadership of  NAUS on the current state of Education in Nigerian Universities. His write up contained an Ultimatum given to all concerned government that "If the state government and the school authorities fail to provide solution to the crisis within two weeks, the body would have no other option than to lead her members across the federation to the streets to save the future of our innocent students from this unpalatable situation." According to the National President of  NAUS : (BEING THE PRESS RELEASE BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' NAUS ON THE CLOSURE OF UNIVERSITIES .) Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matters. The leadership of the National Association of University Students (NAUS) condemn the closure of universities by the school autho...