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While speaking at the induction and training programme for the new teachers employed by the Post-Primary School Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, said that the teachers’ appointments were based on merit.

The Registrar of the university, Olubunmi Faluyi, said this in a statement on Monday to announce the plan of the institution to reduce physical gathering in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 on the campus and the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

The affected sets include 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 sessions, investigations have revealed.

Governor Seyi Makinde disclosed this on Thursday in Ibadan during a stakeholders’ consultative meeting.

The governor stated this while speaking at the Stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting on the 2022 Budget, held at the Ogunlana Hall, International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan.

Sources within the university told The Eagle Online that a meeting is being arranged for May 17, 2021 to consider the possible elongation of the tenure of the incumbent acting VC, though it is unclear if this would not be in the breach of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act of 2003.

The governor, who stated this while delivering a speech at the 2nd Circularity Africa Conference, held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, added that the government and the people of the state are seeing results in the areas of education, health, security and expansion of the state’s economy.

UI, in its 73 years existence, had been dragged backward severally by issues not strictly academic. From its Crescent and Cross crisis of the 1980s, which pitted Islam adherents against Christian worshippers on its campus, to another religious war at its staff school, which shot UI’s name into records of infamy, as well as allegations of plagiarism against some academics, the succession crisis of 2020 that the university sunk into after the expiration of the tenure of Professor of Applied Geophysics, Abel Idowu Olayinka, launched the school into another signpost of religion and tribe.

The lecture will be held on April 15, 2021 under the chairmanship of the Acting Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. A.B. Ekanola, at the Trenchard Hall of the university.

This was contained in a statement in Ibadan on Friday by Olatunji Oladejo, the university Director, Directorate of Public Communications, on behalf of the Registrar, Olubumi Faluyi.

According to a statement in Ibadan on Friday by the university’s spokesman, Olatunji Oladejo, the event will take place at the Trenchard Hall of the institution at 10am.

This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by Tunji Oladejo, the institution’s Director of Public Communications, in Ibadan on Sunday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ogunshe of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, had dragged the institution and its council to court, demanding N8 million as damages.

Olayinka stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Monday on the various speculations that have delayed the selection process of the 13th VC of the institution.

Odetunde was abducted around 5 pm on Monday while working at his father’s poultry farm in Oke Odan, Apete area of Ibadan, Oyo capital.

The revelation was part of the findings of a doctoral thesis carried out by Dr. Uzoamaka Chukwuma of the Department of Sociology.

The clarification follows the information trending on the social media that the university has published allocation of students into their respective hostels and students are expected to make payments.

On January 5, 2021, the management of the University of Ibadan announced the promotion of Olajide alongside others to the position of Professor.

These allegations were contained in a press statement by the Director of the organisation, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday

The judgment was delivered on Saturday