THE PRESS COUNCIL Wednesday 18-01-2017 FINALLY OPENED

THE PRESS COUNCIL _{Wednesday 18-01-2017}

FINALLY OPENED

It was indeed a glorious day as many dignitaries of this great Town, Management of this fantastic institution and many were seen wearing a joyous smile to witness the commissioning of the newly built ICT Centre at The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki. (TOPS)yesterday 17^th, January 2017.

Present at the commissioning of the newly built ICT Centre are the Honorable Minister for Communication- Barrister Adebayo Shittu, Senator Abiola Ajimobi ablely represented by the Commissioner for Education- Mr Femi Olowoyo, Bagii of Saki Land- Mr Kasali Adegoke, Former JAMB Registrar- Professor Emeritus Dibu Ojerinde, The Permanent Secretary Oyo State Government Ministry of Education- Mrs A.O Makanjuola, President Saki Parapo- Mr Onifade, The Incumbent Rector of TOPS Mr M.O Oladeji, The Deputy Rector- TPL Alabi, The Bursar- Mr Tijani Soliu, The Registrar- Mr O.O Ojewole, The Chief Librarian- Mr O.A Osunrinade.

Also in attendance the CSO TOPS, P.A Rector, Lecturers, Gravity FM Igboho, NTA Nigeria, Radio Nigeria, CAN president Saki Branch, Muslim Association President, Women Leader, Youth Leader and many more.

The program was anchored by MC Mirinda the PRO of TOPs, the opening prayer was said by the PA Rector.

The able Rector gave the first speech; he greeted the Minister for funding the project. He made it known that the newly built ICT Centre will serve as a Centre for UTME starting from this year. He also made it known that the project was as a result of the discussion held at the welcoming party for the Minister after his appointment last year.

Saki Parapo President- Mr Onifade also commended the effort of the Minister; he also appreciated the presence of the former Jamb registrar prof. Dibu. He gave a stupendous kudos to the Management of TOPS for the initiative of other Projects. He later went on by seeking the help of the minister and other dignitaries  for the completion of the building beside the newly built ICT Centre, a project kick started by Saki Paropo, in which prof. Dibu responded by donating the sum of 2.3million Naira to assist. The Minister also made a pledge to support in the construction of other projects.

Prof. Emeritus Dibu Ojerinde also acclaimed the effort of the Minister, the school management toward the construction of the newly built ICT Centre in writing Jamb which will benefits the lot of Indigenous students and others home and abroad.

After Prof. Dibu speech, The able Commissioner for Education- Mr Femi Olowoyo gave his speech, on behalf of the Governor of Oyo State, he commend the good deeds of the minister towards the improvement of Saki town and Oyo sate generally. He spoke on LAUTECH strike, he said the school will be reopened before the end of the month.

The minister gave the final speech of the day, he greeted every dignitaries, the school management and everybody present at the commissioning. He made it known that the ICT Centre is a project sponsored by and funded by USPF- Universal Service Provisions Fund, a body under the ministry of Communication, which by constitution he is the head. He advised the School Management to make judicious use of the Centre for other business, training Centre rather than Jamb Centre. He later went on to commission the building, he moved round the inner room of the building, the security room, where the CCTV is been controlled, and many other room. After the commissioning, he took pictures with the management Staffs of TOPS, other dignitaries, he later went round the Town to commission other projects before leaving for Lagos to attend Federal Executives Council (FEC) meeting.

The Rector expressed his feelings to the members of the press who interviewed him shortly after the departure of the Minister of comm. From ICT Centre. He made it his happy feelings known and assured that more projects will come in soon.

Prof. Dibu was also interviewed before leaving for Ife, he congratulates the Management of TOPS, he emphasized on the usefulness of the newly built ICT Centre for other business rather than jamb Centre alone. He also stated that the Centre should be taken good care of.

Press Release on TOPS medical centre

THE OKE-OGUN POLYTECHNIC SAKI (TOPS)
Press council
PRESS RELEASE
** MEDICAL CENTRE**
“The school’s health Centre is not a dumping ground for fake or expired drugs” (DR. Adebayo Ismail Adewale, Medical Director, TOPS)
“You can’t go to a pharmaceutical company to buy drugs as an unregistered pharmacist” (Mr. Caleb Adejumobi, Dean Student Affair)
The rumors going round the school campus that fake and expired drugs and drips are used at the health Centre and are supplied by Dean, Students’ Affair are total lies fabricated by one faceless Ismail Shuaib Ajibola an ex-student of Building Tech Department of the Polytechnic Ibadan, Saki Campus. He deliberately wants to destabilize the peaceful and serene atmosphere of this Institution and to tarnish the good image of The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki (TOPS). His ulterior motive is not known but we suspect his anger could be borne out of his frustration because he was not offered admission last session for his HND course because of the part he played in the last riot,  by disseminating untrue information about increment of tuition fee that led to student uproar.
Medical Director, TOPS explained to press correspondents who visited him at the school medical centre last week that He is saddled with the responsibility to write out the list of drugs needed at the school health centre and forward it to the School Management through the Bursary Department where provisions will be made. He also mentioned the 3 qualified Suppliers he knew supplies drug to the School Medical Centre through the Management, which are Alaka Ola Pharmaceutical Ltd, Ajike Pharmacy and Perazim Pharmacy.
The Dean student Affair shed more lights on the issue last week; He said he had never administered drug to any student nor supplied drug to the Health Centre. He said the Institution didn’t record any death of student last session as a result of medical misconduct, except for those who died in a car crash and a male student who died of tetanus virus he had been infected from his home. He also mentioned the 3 drug supplier to the Institution. He then offered advice to students to stay away from rumors. The Dean cautioned that rumors like this is classified as general misconduct under the school constitution, and the punishment is expulsion from school.
Please be warned, as obedient is better than sacrifice. Press is watching you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Interview with the Rector of Oke-Ogun Polytechnic Saki on Governor visitation on the 13th of December 2016.

 PRESS: Sir to what you have seen today, what are feelings like?

RECTOR: I am happy, elated, and very extreme, at least for the first time, the Governor of Oyo state                 stepped into the Campus, so it is a nice feeling.
PRESS: As it is now Sir, you are elated and do you think anything positive can still come from his own Government to the school in terms of development?
RECTOR: As what we are witnessing is part of what he has done, you know if you look at the development striate of TOPS, we can say it has a result of autonomy granted to this school by His Excellency, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
PRESS: So Sir, he said something which I picked “we all Citizens need to change our ways”, and from that Sir, is the school also and the Management trying to change their ways to bring a positive change continuously in this school?
RECTOR: If you see inspite of the economy recession, things are still moving here, so that is to tell you that we are trying to sacrifice a lot of things just to make sure that the development going on is not truncated, so we are going to give it all it takes, and of course once you get into the middle of the semester you will see a lot of new programs that will be rolled out that will better the lot of students.
PRESS: And from your own end Sir, and from your team end that is the Management Staff, The Rector, The Bursar, The Registrar, The Chief Librarian, and the Deputy Rector and the likes who are in the Management Team, should we be expecting at least an unbroken academic calendar session again?
RECTOR: Sure you know we have committed  Staff, focused Student, and the Management is always willing to maintain  that stability, of course maybe you have know or not, before January 2017, your results will be online, so you can access your result online, and for those that have graduated, processing of transcript will be online too, so all these bottle necks and the delays will be taking away at least for TOPS graduate. We started considering your result last week, so in the next 2 weeks we would have perfected everything, then we go online, you just pay a token, then your parent can check results, you also can check, then if you have a complain, you bring it up.
PRESS:  Permit me to ask you this, in respect to the regularization fee been paid for last session, some people are yet to be accepted by that functions, that is been regularized, can you say anything on that Sir?
RECTOR: Whether TOPS Student paid, they didn’t believe us, we were trying to tell them that time that if you graduate without regularizing, it will become a personal and individual problem, lets go and do it for you now, but they refused. In fact one of them called me not long ago that their Head of Department said they should not pay. I said ok go and meet your HOD now to bail you out, so anything we are doing here at least this our regime, this our management is in the best interest of student, so trust us, believe us, we are not going to exploit you, we want to give you the best and that is why we are into this, but whatsoever we can do to clear the backlog, we are going to do it.
PRESS: For those who have paid Sir, when should they be expecting feedback and positive result?
RECTOR: We are going to announce the procedure, JAMB has change the procedure, JAMB will no longer accept bulk regularization. It’s going to be individual, so we will give each Department the procedure, you print out  the form, I will sign, then we send to JAMB.
PRESS: Sir I will like to ask what are the provision the school is putting in place the poly Ibadan student that studiedt here?
RECTOR: Well, we will just process their result, drop it at Ibadan, all other things will be taking over by Ibadan, so that’s much we can say about that.
PRESS: The Governor talked about stopping of all subvention to Tertiary Institution in Oyo State, what’s your take on this Sir?
RECTOR: Well, we believe, you know we are young anyway, if you look at all the Tertiary Institution in Oyo State, ours is among the youngest, so but we are trusting, because we are trying to keep up with the pace, so that we have unbroken academic calendar, so we still discuss with him here, the management with his excellency, but we know it’s a matter of time, very shortly we will be able to resolve issues.     
PRESS: Sir we checked on our portal that the closure of the payment of school fees is on the 16th of this month, how true is that Sir?
RECTOR: We are going to close the portal for now, you know we have delay here and there, we will give more time for the student, but this time around, when we get to January and we say the portal is closing, take us serious, it is going to close once and for all.
PRESS: Sir on the note of the Entrepreneur, that is EED class Sir, we notice, there is a bit increment on the fee and we don’t really know what things that has made it come up to that extent Sir?
RECTOR: Ok let me tell you what we want to do about this Entrepreneurship training, is to really upgrade to a point that you will collect certificate, and if you are collecting certificate, you wont be able to change from one trade to another, so you should be able to stand on your own. I was in Gravity FM last week, one of the student, you know it is a phone in programme, so she called that what she learnt here, she has been using it. So we want to decongest the class, we want to make the practical as it ought to be, so that why, and for us to be able to do that, you know we need to buy the consumables, then since it is attracting certificate now. So these are things we have brought together to have slightly increased it.
PRESS: Before you go sir, can you tell us a little about the next matriculation for the fresher’s Sir?
RECTOR: JAMB disrupted the admission process this year, JAMB change the rules a couple of times, so we are not able to process admission in good time, so that why we have delayed the matriculation. Admission will finally close, for fulltime, admission has closed, for DNP it will be closing late December, so hopefully first week or second week in January, matriculation will take place. And please inform all new students the criterion for matriculation will be payment of school fees.
PRESS: Sir I would like to ask when will the school have their first Convocation?
RECTOR: Because we want to respect Ibadan this year, you know we still have some of our students that graduated as The poly Ibadan student. So next year those who graduated this year will be coming for their graduation, but we will communicate the date anyway, management has not discussed on the date.
PRESS: Thank you Sir.      

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