Mapoly acting Rector charges SUG executive to promote peace
By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE acting Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta in Ogun State, Mr. Ayodeji Tella, has charged members of the newly elected executive of Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the institution to explore all avenues that will promote peaceful co-existence among members of the polytechnic community and the government. This, Tella […]
Police arrest 20 Mapoly students over arson, public disturbance
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE Ogun Police Command has arrested 20 students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, for alleged arson and public disturbance. They were nabbed on the second day of their protest which began Monday over the inability to sit for their second semester examination. The protest crippled most socio-economic activities in […]
Amosun removes Mapoly rector, appoints replacement
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE Rectorship tenure of Prof Olajide Itiola has come to an abrupt end at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has removed him from office and ordered him to immediately proceed on terminal leave. In order not to create vacuum, the government […]
Sack: Mapoly striking workers go fetish, invoke spirits
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE striking workers of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (Mapoly), Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday went spiritual to appease the mind of the Transition Committee in-charge of conversion of the institution to university. The over 1,000 workers, who include both the academic and non-academic, placed fetish objects in pots where they […]
Mapoly lecturers begin strike over planned job loss
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: LECTURERS under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Tuesday began an indefinite strike over alleged plan to sack them. They alleged that the Transition Committee (TC) set up for the newly established Moshood Abiola University of […]
Controversy trails Mapoly SUG election
NIGERIA: CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the conduct of the Students’ Union Government election of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta in Ogun State. The election was held last Friday in the polytechnic premises as Students’ Union Electoral Committee failed to “officially” declare winners at the end of the voting. The Chairman of the electoral committee, […]
Amosun signs Bill to upgrade Mapoly to university
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE Bill upgrading the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (Mapoly), Abeokuta, Ogun State, to university has been signed into law by the Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. The signing of the Bill at the State Executive Council meeting on Monday followed the earlier passage by the lawmakers to turn the polytechnic into […]
Fulani herdsmen invade Mapoly
By Olusola AJIBIKE NIGERIA: ONE Fulani herdsman was arrested while another one escaped on Tuesday abandoning the grazing cows after security men of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta in Ogun State swooped on them within the polytechnic farmland. The men who invaded the polytechnic premises with their cows caused panic among the students and staffers […]
Ogun Assembly assures on upgrading of Mapoly to university status
NIGERIA: OGUN State House of Assembly will, by January ending, pass the bill to upgrade the status and name of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to university level. If passed into law, the polytechnic will change its name to Moshood Abiola University of Technology following the earlier request of Governor Ibikunle Amosun to […]
AMACOS ’91: Returning to alma mater with a helping hand
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: INDEED, they all agreed it’s a worthwhile gesture to look back and remember an institution that moulded them from professional infancy to their present socio-eco-political status in the Nigerian society and beyond. When the idea to give back to the 36-year-old Ogun State Polytechnic (now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic), Abeokuta in […]
