May it not be said that we, the students of University of Ibadan, are responsible for the hike in our school fees!
The rot plaguing our university cannot be isolated from the retrogressive pace of growth militating against the Nigerian state – macrocosm of our microcosm. It is high time we began to fix some things in our domain. The kind of offering-collec
Be that as it may, there are certain areas the students of the university can help the management contain the worsening situation without the student populace necessarily bearing any extra financial burden. In fact, the various student leaders must, as a matter of urgency, have a shift in their orientation and attitude to the administration of their halls, faculties and departmental associations.
It is unfair on the part of the students of this university to blame the university management for not setting its priority while our own priority list is misplaced and ill-informed by our supposed leaders. Or of what relevance is a hall’s collaboration with a telecommunicati
Reflecting on the Obafemi Awolowo Hall recent saga, one is bound to ask what the Hall’s executive members in the past few years have contributed to the development of the hall they claim to love and take pride in. Apart from the ritual of producing “souvenir turned book”, what other ways have the residents of the hall felt the impacts of the dues they have been paying to the Hall executive in the past few years? Or maybe we should even ask what purpose those associations really serve.
Recently, the Association of Faculty of Arts Students (AFAS) held a Freshers’ Orientation programme which cost the association more than 300 000. The programme, it must be noted, added nothing to the new students’ knowledge of their faculty and its students’ association. It was a celebration of frivolities on the part of Adeoye Adejare led administration.
More worrisome is the un-intellectual
Gone are those days when what usually preoccupies a leader’s mind is what lasting legacy they would leave behind in the office. The idea of capital project is very strange among the students’ associations in our university. We seem to have forgotten that we have to start practicing self-reliance as a matter of principle in the university as what we cultivate here are those that will stick with us in the life after school.
Many of our halls of residence need repainting. Are we to wait on the school management to do the painting? And that again brings us back to the question of what purpose the dues should be serving. The dues should be used to better the condition of life and infrastructure in the associations without any prejudice to the oversight responsibility of the university management. It is high time we began to fix certain rot in our domain. For UI to be great, it is our collective responsibility.
UCJUI is not in any way excusing the failure of the university management in performing its responsibility,
In conclusion, the university management must show leadership and sincerity of purpose in its dealing with the students. Injustice sets in when just things are treated unjustly and unjust things are treated justly, to paraphrase the Greek philosopher Plato. The financial misappropriatio