By, Lightbearer.
It is a thing of joy for finalists when they hear the sound and roar of FYB in a higher institution.
(FYB) means Final year brethren week The Oke Ogun polytechnic Saki has never been left out in this ritual of FYB that usually take place in the school premises every year for all finalist, But due to the insecurity on campus the Management of the Oke Ogun polytechnic have suspend the activities of FYB on campus till further notice.
By:Lightbearer
On Tuesday, Nov 8, 2022 The Town and Gown Meeting was Held at the Rectors Conference room. The Chairman Governing Council of the institution, Barrister Sarafadeen Onijo filled the room with a piece of great news that The Oke Ogun Polytechnic is set to construct the student hostel on campus, he further revealed that the work is in progress and also said the institution is proposing to have the institution microfinance bank. However, staff school is another project on the agenda.
He then requested ultimate support from the indigenous member of Oke Ogun, he said the growth of the institution should be everyone’s priority.
In attendance at the Town and Gown Meeting are dignitaries from each town in Oke Ogun which consists of Tede, Iseyin, Ago-are, Okaka,Igboho,a and Saki, the security agencies, SUG president and the members of TOPS Press council.
The issue of the bike men was discussed at the meeting and a committee was set up headed by the Chairman Governing council to look into the matter before the week runs off.
The Students union president, God’s Power Kester request that the Town and Gown should please help the students look into the high price of fuel in Saki that it have been a thing of concern which have lead to increase in price of transportation for students
The Chairman of Town and Gown for the day in person of Baba Popular said the reason for high price of fuel is due to low rate of availability of fuel in Saki that soon the challenge will be a thing of the past.
All the security unit in Saki at large promise to step up their game and make sure peace keep reigning in Oke Ogun Polytechnic and it environment they all promise to keep working together to stop crime
The Acting Rector of the institution, Dr Y.A Fasasi made it known that the governing council of the institution have been working alongside with management of the school to make the institution good he also made it known that some non academic staff have been promoted to academic staff with the help of the governing council .
By, Khaylader.
The ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ business, formally known as cyber fraud in Nigeria’s cybercrime law, is occurring menacingly in the country.
The illicit business, mostly perpetrated by young men called ‘Yahoo-Yahoo boys’ or ‘Yahoo-Yahoo millionaires’ and sometimes women, is an offshoot of the so-called ‘419’ business of the 1980s and 1990s.
The 419 code is derived from a section of the country’s Criminal Act Section 419 (Advance Free Fraud) which frowns at obtaining money from people through pretence or impersonation, cheating, falsification, counterfeiting, forgery and fraudulent representation of facts.
Internet fraud has now been here for decades and does not seem to be declining in spite of the government’s efforts to stem the tide of the crime that has given the country a bad reputation.
How they operate:
Cyber fraud, locally known as Yahoo Yahoo in Nigeria, takes various shapes and forms which have undergone evolution in recent years.
Boys involved in this illicit business have various ways of duping their victims – mostly foreigners. These range from romance scam, email phishing, business email compromise fraud, identity theft, impersonation, to generating bogus business transactions that look too good to be true and shady business deals running into millions of Naira, usually in hard currencies.
Some of the men involved in the illegal business often resort to seeking metaphysical powers from herbalists that they believe will enable them to hypnotise or control their victims for the time they are on their radar. This latter category of boys are called ‘Yahoo Plus’ boys or ‘G-boys.’
Their tools include laptops connected to the internet that runs almost on a 24-hour basis. They also have premium software exclusively for hacking purposes. Most of them live in secluded places, away from the prying eyes of the public.
When they are not at home, they use their mobile phones which are connected to mobile internet providers like Mifi to run their illicit schemes.
Resurgence of Yahoo-Yahoo:
For some time now, hardly does a week pass without the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) parading young men for cyber fraud or some being jailed by courts for internet fraud-related offences.
In fact, it is almost a daily occurrence to the extent that some persons no longer pay any attention to it. It is now a sub-culture, an indication that it is the new normal, despite the country’s criminal justice system being stoutly against it.
As law enforcement agencies scale up their intelligence gathering to track those involved in the crime, the criminals have also learnt to up their games to avoid being caught.
There are also allegations that some of the Yahoo boys have informants within the country’s security agencies who tip them off to escape arrest.
Even though it is one crime the government seriously frowns at and has sent many young men to prison for, after prosecution by the country’s anti-graft agencies like the EFCC and ICPC, the number of young men recruited into the illicit activities seems to be on an upward swing in the South-west region of the country.
While a part of the South-west society seems to be against what they do, there is a new generation of cheerleaders who believe Yahoo boys are not doing anything harmful. This latter category, to justify their support for cyber fraud criminals, say Nigerian politicians do worse.
By, Meek.
The report of the SDC meeting held on Thursday 3rd of November 2022. At the Rector’s conference room.
The meeting commenced at exactly 10: 51am
Opening prayer was done by: The Dean School Of Engineering
The meeting was based on the judgment or sanction of those that fell victim to examination malpractice during the first semester 2021/2022 academic session.
The name of the students and their penalties are as follows:
GROSS MISCONDUCT FIRST SEMESTER 20/21 ACADEMIC SESSION.
The closing prayer was done by the SUG president
The meeting ended at exactly 1 pm.
By, Big Boss.
On Friday, November 4, 2022, the Oke-Ogun Polytechnic Saki, SUG presented its annual budget to the senate house, this budget was presented by the SUG Treasurer. The meeting commenced at exactly 1:00 pm at their meeting hall, the notion to commence the meeting was suggested by by Hon Emmanuel and seconded by Hon Demola.
DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET
The SUE Treasurer presented the annual budget to the House Clerk, according to the budget presented each department’s expenses were attached and the following is the total amount of their proposed budget.
SUG SPORT COMPETITION
The speaker Hon Bidemi, reported that the SUG sports director has been consistently petitioning her as regards the SUG sports competition budget. However, she said she will get across to him after the budget has been reviewed. She then suggested that the members of the house make a quick decision on his proposed budget.
Hon Bukunmi asked if the budget is been considered because of the constant disturbing calls from the sports director.
The honorable Speaker said she is not saying the Sports department budget should be considered first but the semester is short and if the budget is not put into consideration the SUG cup will not hold.
The members of the legislative arm decided that the Sports director should proceed with the Sports competition on Monday with the little fund the department can raise pending the period the budget gets approved.
SUIEC
The speaker said the Student Union Independent Electoral Committee members will be presented to the Dean of Students Affairs next week. However, the supposed limited number of candidates to be screened for SUIEC should be 10, meanwhile, 5 top candidates will be accessed from the 10 in total, i.e a candidate from each school. and then they have a limit of people to make up the committee. Hon Demola suggested that since they still need more people for the committee, so they need to conduct another screening for the nominee.
SRC Sitting Allowance
The Honourables are now frowning about their unpaid sitting allowance by the SUG and the speaker instructed the clerk to write to the SUG president for their sitting allowance. The Sports Director and the DSA will be on sit in the next meeting which is scheduled on Tuesday, 8th November 2022.
Hon Emmanuel moved the adjournment of the meeting.
By, Big Boss.
On Tuesday 1st November 2022, The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki Management restricted bike men from entering the school premises. According to the information gathered from the Dean of Student Affairs, Mr. Adeoti, he said the restriction is necessary in compliance with the dictates of recommendations to curtail crimes and instil corporate behaviours among the bikers. He further condemned the altitudes of the bikers when he cited an examples of uncouth altitudes of the bikers was when a staff of the institutions was physically assaulted by an unknown biker plying the school premises. He further said that the management set up a mutual meeting with the bike workers’ executives on the campus on security issues within the campus premises. Both sides concluded on the lasting solution to the insecurity around the campus which is the provision of a designed uniform for bike men within the campus, the provision of stickers and tags to recognize bonafide members of the association, and also submission of every bike man database to differentiate between campus bike man and the evildoers, all with a token of #2500.
But unfortunately, the bike workers refused to comply with the institution’s instructions probably due to their malicious acts.
However, this security action came up following the series of attempted kidnapping complaints from the students of the institution, meanwhile, the norms from other institutions are the best decision taken by the management. Also, the Dean students affairs was quoted as that on several occasions we have recorded more than twenty five accidents involving students and staff were reported in the last two months the causes of which included overspending, alcoholism and recklessness.
We, the students of The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic Saki(TOPS) hereby appeal to The Governing council Chairman, The Management, The Students’ Affairs Office, and the Students’ Union Executive to consider students’ welfarism and security. The expressway across the institution which is the new park for the bike men is a very risky and hazardous place for all students of the institution and this can cause a lot of casualties among the students.
Even, according to the report received from students, the bike men have been committing nuisance off campus such as harassment and maltreating of students. We all know that this measure is not to ban or eradicate the bike men working on the campus but, is for the welfare and security of the students.
By:Arthena
The Meeting Holds on Tuesday 11th of October 2022 between the Student Affairs Office, SUE, and SRC. The meeting commences at 3:05 pm
Opening prayer by the Honorable speaker
The Meeting agenda are listed below:
The Directorate of Student Affairs, Mr. Adeoti said he has not been noticing SRC proceedings, that they are not committed enough in discharging their duties and They’ve not been involving the SAO, Press, and Security in their proceedings.
The Speaker retorted to the DSA that they’ve been carrying the Press and Security along in their meetings, the DSA asked her how many times has the meeting been held. The speaker replied and said the meeting sitting has been up to 7 Sittings.
Dean Academic Affairs, ALHAJI Adigun advised them to always involves the SAO along so that if anything happened they will know how to protect them
The SUG president, Echekwumene God’s power said maybe is not well known to the SRC that they are to carry the SAO along in their meetings. He furthermore in saying that he believes there will be a positive change.
The DSA announced to the SRC that there will only be an allowance for an inner caucus meeting.
SUG CAPITAL PROJECT
The DSA aforementioned that the SUE is also not carrying the SAO along too,
He also said that they don’t know about the SUG capital project.
The SUG President said their only source of income is the receipt and the executive have to sit at a round table to finalize the capital project, He said a date has already been picked among themselves to have a meeting and finalize the capital project.
He assured us as from today henceforth there will be a positive change.
Dean of Academic Affairs, ALHAJI Adigun said they need to be hastily on the project because we only have 8 weeks to the end of this session. He ask about the SUG bus, the SUG president replied that the bus is already at the mechanic workshop and it will soon be done.
ELECTORAL COMMITTEE
The DSA said the SRC is supposed to screen one person from each faculty to be among the electoral committee. The DSA aforementioned that there should be a fund left in their account for the incoming SUE.
DISCIPLINE
The DSA, Mr. Adeoti said in enforcing the dress code the SAO is having a lot of troubles, He said in some other schools some dressing are not allowed such as:
The SUG Financial Secretary replied and said where there is no law there is no sin. They all say there is no hard copy that is backing it up and that the students should not put on all those dressing.
The DSA asked why the Union has not set up strict enforcement, The president said the old days are different from this current era.
He said During their own time when they are still in school is different from now, He said Nigerians are no more following the constitution again. The SUG President said during his ND days he has never set his eyes on the school Handbook. He said they should try and make all students have the School handbook. He said further our fingers are not equal, He said some students don’t have enough money to buy sandals and shoes because most shoes and sandals are costly.
The DSA said the SUG is justifying indecent dressing by saying what he said, the DSA said the student not having handbooks doesn’t mean they should dress indecently.
The SUG Financial Secretary said they shouldn’t enforce it with force but they should do it gently.
The SAO said putting on shoes and sandals always are left to school if they want to enforce it, He said the issue of palm is still okay to be put on the palm but crazy Jean and transparent cloth is okay by him to ban it. He said if they want this to be enforced
They should start from all department
The SUE auditor said some departments Dress cooperate on Monday and Thursday
But some departments do not have departmental wear at all.
They suggested they should try and start from the entrance of the school, Com Abidemi SRC said the management can also help in this matter.
Com Bukunmi SRC said this law should start from the screening
They should let them know what the school wants from the Screening
The SUG president said the management is also admitting students anyhow. The SUG President said the first solution to the issue is the provision of a handbook to all students when doing registration.
The SUG president said the management can also put inflation in every late registration.
RESOLUTION
SUG Financial Secretary commends the effort of the management, But he said the effort is not enough and that they should romance the government to tie the road because some students will not want to comply with wearing shoes when there’s dust inside the school.
The DSA said they will address the issue and he said the student union government is also closer to the government they can also cheap it in during the election period.
The SUG president said the student is clamoring because there is no internet and they are paying for it.
The SUG president said they will not allow this matter again if the management did not make a change in this situation of Medical and Internet.
The SUG president also said he is leaving all this issue in the hand of the SAO and that they should do something about it.
The DSA said anytime the SUG submit any complaints to them, They always relay their complaints to the management.
The DSA also said with all the SUE complaints they will meet with the management this week to relay their complaints to them
BIKES ISSUES
The SUG welfare said she does not know what the SAO is doing on the issue of the Bike man jacket.
And she said if the SAO is not doing the jacket again, they will go ahead and do the banner for them because is affecting their revenue.
The SUE auditor also said the Zenith bank should have what they should be doing for them. The SUG president said that the bike man is beneficial to the management, not the SUE
And if they are not going to be beneficial to them they will ban bikes and bring in tricycles
But the DSA said they’ve given them the deadline
And the deadline will be the end of this week
And if they did not comply with them
They should not be allowed to come into the school again as from Monday
The SUG Financial Secretary said they have issues with their revenue, He said they are not generating revenue very well.
The SUE said especially the school of science they are not obtaining SUG receipt
The DSA said they will make it known to the dean of the science faculty
The meeting ends at 5:20 pm.
PRESS COUNCIL TOPS
The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, (TOPS) Saki held its combined maiden Convocation Ceremony for Graduands of 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, and 2019/2020 Academic Session, on Saturday 25th, September 2022.
The event which was held at the premises of the institution also witnessed the commissioning of a multimillion naira central Laboratory complex by Governor Seyi Makinde.
The Governor who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, charged graduands to be good ambassadors of the institution, noting that they should not relent in their academic pursuits.
Ogunwuyi also appreciated the unquantifiable contributions of the past and present Governing Council and Management of the Institution for the laudable policies they formulated and implemented, which have helped to take the institution to an enviable height.
Also speaking, the Acting Rector of the institution, Dr. Yekeen Fasasi thanked God and commended Governor Seyi Makinde over the completion of the project within the spate of 8 months.
Dr. Y.K Fasasi also hailed the Governing Council of the institution and the consultant for ensuring the project was carried out within a reasonable period.
He said: “I am full of gratitude to God Almighty for the completion of this project within the spate of Eight (8) months. The project was facilitated by His Excellency, Governor Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde and approved by the Governing Council with the able supervision of the Financial Consultant ably led by the Chairman Platinum I.T. Asset Consultant, who ensured that the construction was carried out at a reasonable period.
“The template for the Laboratory Complex had been on the ground for years and the Council and the Management on coming on board tried severally to convince the consultant on the need to have the complex which will invariably add to the infrastructures needed for accreditation of our courses.
“The approval for the take-off of the construction of the complex was thereafter granted by the Consultant through direct labour.
“The total amount of One Hundred and Three Million, Five Hundred and Thirty-Three Thousand Naira (#103,533,000.00) only, saved from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) was used for the construction of the Laboratory Complex. These funds and their utilization were prudently managed with the assistance of the Council and the Chairman Platinum I.T. Assets Consultant. In no doubt, the accreditation of our Science-based courses will sail through easily, because this laboratory is one of the basic requirements needed for accreditation of courses.
“Your Excellency Sir, this institution will forever be grateful to you for this, and at the same time, I wish to request from you the fund needed to equip these laboratories. These include Scientific Equipment and pieces of machinery needed for the laboratories to function effectively. There is also the need to furnish all the offices and units in the Laboratory for effective use. All this I hope and pray that His Excellency will approve putting the Laboratory Complex into use for the on-coming Accreditation exercise.
Some other dignitaries at the event were the Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Mr. Abdulrahman Abduraheem, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Adeniyi Olabode Adebisi, Chairman Governing Council of Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Barr. Lateef Abiola Sarafadeen, Members of the Governing Council, The Okere of Saki, among others.
By: LightBearer
The Oke Ogun Polytechnic Saki management releases second semester calendar and date of resumption.
The calendar was released in the early hours of today, 22 September 2022. It was stated that the school will resume for the second semester, 2021/2022 academic session on 3rd of October 2022. However, Examination for second semester will commence by 9th of January 2023 and end on 20th of January 2023.
By: PRESS COUNCIL TOPS
This is to inform all students who graduated in 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, and 2019/2020 Academic Sessions from The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, saki.
According to the management, the convocation Gown will be available at their respective department on Thursday 22nd, September 2022, and Friday 23rd, September 2022 from the hour of 8:00 am prompt.
Press Council The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic,Saki (TOPS)