Suspended FUNAAB vice-chancellor strategises to challenge FG
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: AFTER series of consultations, the suspended Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in Ogun State, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, has finally handed over to his most senior deputy vice chancellor, but in the night. Oyewole in line with the Federal Ministry of Education’s directive handed over to the Deputy […]
N800m fraud: FG suspends FUNAAB vice-chancellor
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: AT last, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has suspended the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in Ogun State, Professor Olusola Oyewole. The Minister said that the order for Oyewole to vacate his number one seat at FUNAAB followed his arraignment in court by the Economic […]
FUNAAB wins N152m Rockefeller Foundation grant
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State has won $500,000 (N152,500,000) Cassava Innovation Challenge grant. The princely grant, which was won in partnership with the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, will be useful alongside the needed technical assistance, to test and market a […]
N800m fraud: Court rejects Ogunlewe’s bid to escape EFCC’s prosecution
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: STRIDENT moves by the former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, to evade trial for alleged corruption have failed. An Abeokuta High Court on Thursday threw out his application to prevent the anti-graft agency, the Economic […]
ICAN grants FUNAAB’s Accounting Degree programme full accreditation
NIGERIA: THERE is cheering news coming from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has given full accreditation to the Bachelor of Science Accounting degree of the university. The decision of ICAN to approve the programme being run by the College of Management […]
Last minute moves avert another crisis in FUNAAB
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: ANOTHER round of crisis was averted on Wednesday at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State following a change of heart on the part of the management of the university. The university had in an apparently move to punish the three whistleblowers and the 20 sacked workers […]
FUNAAB: Final year students celebrate end of university session
NIGERIA: THE campus of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in Ogun State recently went agog when the final year students could hardly contain their excitement as they expressed joy for successfully completing their examinations. While attributing their accomplishments to the grace and mercy of God, the students, however, shared their dreams and aspiration for […]
FUNAAB VC Oyewole quits following FG’s order
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: THE embattled Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, may begin his journey out of the university from Monday, barely 128 days to the end of his single five years tenure, following an order from the Federal Ministry of Education. Oyewole, who […]
Warning letters to workers expose deception of FUNAAB management
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: THE letters of warning issued out on Thursday to 20 sacked and later recalled staff of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State have exposed the lies and deception of the management that is bent on punishing the workers at all cost as reprisal measures for exposing […]
Court reinstates two sacked FUNAAB lecturers, lambasts university
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: THE National Industrial Court has ordered the management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun State to reinstate two lecturers of the university who were sacked over alleged plagiarism. The lecturers, Dr. Janet Titilayo Bamgbose and Mr. Akeem Adesina Bamgbade, were on May 10, 2013 sacked by […]
