College of Education, Ijanikin reduces tuition fees following students protest

College of Education, Ijanikin reduces tuition fees following students protest

College of Education, Ijanikin reduces tuition fees following students protest

The Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Otto- Ijanikin, Lagos, has reviewed downward its tuition fees following protest by students on the recent hike.


Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, the college's Spokesman, Mr Odunayo Adebowale, said management and the students' representatives had met with the state government.

"Both parties have resolved the disputes, it was jointly agreed to reduce the tuition fee from N120,000 to N95,000," he said.

The students of AOCOED on Monday protested over hike in the tuition fees and the delay in the release of their first semester results among other demands.

The protest came few weeks after the protest by students of the Lagos State University (LASU) over similar grievance of hike in school fees.

The management and representatives of the students met on February 3 with the Directorate of Higher Education in charge of Tertiary Institutions to resolve the disputes.

According to him, the protest is uncalled for because the management has begun the process of resolving the disputes before some students decided to demonstrate.

Adebowale said no life was lost during the protest as security agents promptly arrived at the scene to calm the situation, adding that normalcy had returned to the campus.

"The school was not shutdown, some students barricaded the gates and their actions made other students to flee from the campus, " he said.

However, a member of the Students' Parliamentary Council, Mariam Salami, told NAN that the protest became necessary because most students were yet to pay their fees due to the hike.

She said that the union had made several consultations to resolve the disputes with the management which demoralised the students and that pushed us to a peaceful demonstration.

She said that the obstruction of movement on Lagos-Badagry Expressway resulted to traffic gridlock, while students fled the campus for fear of the unknown. (NAN)

Scientists: 5 latest updates on Woman's Breast

Scientists: 5 latest updates on Woman's Breast

Scientists: 5 latest updates on Woman's Breast

Scientists have done weird studies on the cultural fascination with b**bs. Below you will find the strangest ones…

1. Poor men like big b**bs while financially secure men prefer smaller b**bs.

According to Psychology Today, the amount of money a man earns is connected with size of b**bs he prefers. The study, conducted by two psychologists, set out to explore the link between financial state and chest size preferences.

Men from different backgrounds were shown animated female figures with different sizes and were asked which of them they considered more sexually attractive.
The results were as follows: poorer men or men undergoing "resource insecurity" preferred larger b**bs while those who were financially well off and stable preferred smaller b**bs.

2. Hungry men desire big b**bs while satiated men prefer a smaller chest.

Scientists revealed that hungry men preferred larger b**bs compared to those whose stomachs were full.
What is here to add? Bon appétit indeed!

3. Squeezing b**bs may prevent cancer

Man can actually be saving the life of their beloved by continuously grabbing her b**bs.
According to the UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, squeezing br**sts can prevent cancer.

Apparently mechanical forces and applying physical pressure on the br**sts can stop the rapid growth of cancer and prevent out of control cells from turning malignant.

4. Bras accelerate sagging

French study conducted over 15 years on women aged between 18 and 35, suggests that wearing a bra is totally useless for women and may actually cause more harm than good. The study claimed that those women who did not wear a bra benefited long term, as they were able to develop more muscle tissue, which provided natural support.

It is strange that the study did not provide for the actual chest size of the women who were involved in the test.

5. Staring at b**bs extends a man's life by five years

A German study, which has been circulating around the internet for years, supposedly involved a team of investigators visiting three hospitals in Frankfurt, Germany, and comparing the health of 200 males over a period of five years.

Half of the volunteers were asked to stare at busty women daily; the other half was prevented from doing so.
The result? Those who were enjoying the sight of big-breasted beauties over five years had lower blood pressure; slower pulse rates and were less likely to develop coronary artery disease.

ASUU calls off five-month-old strike

ASUU calls off five-month-old strike

ASUU calls off five-month-old strike

•NLC brokers peace between FG, lecturers

A silver lining yesterday emerged in the five-month-old face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) intervened with both parties signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The lecturers went on strike on July 2 this year over conditions in the universities, among other issues.

The NLC negotiation team led by its President, Abdulwahed Omar supervised the signing of the MoU which detailed modalities for the distribution of the N200 billion deposited by the Federal Government into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN.

The deal also included the non -victimisation clause and payment of the lecturers' salaries.

However, ASUU failed to announce the suspension of the strike. Its president, Dr. Nasir Fagge, said the signed document would be presented for further deliberation at their National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which will be convened this week.

The Supervising Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike, while reading out the MoU terms,said, "let me say clearly that today is not just historic, it is one of the happiest days of my life since I became the Minister of Education.

"As you are all aware ASUU had been on strike for well over five months on account of their resolve to bring about a new lease of life to all public universities, following Mr President's personal intervention with the marathon meeting we held on November 4, 2013.

"With the executive of ASUU and other labour union leaders where all residual issues were resolved, Nigerians from all walks of life had expressed optimism that the strike would soon be called off.

"Unfortunately and sadly too, this was not to be due to ASUU's insistence that the Federal Government must take further practical steps to show good faith and commitment to the implementation of the agreement.

"As a responsible and responsive government, we have a duty to restore normalcy to our university system so that our children can resume classes and pursue their educational careers. Consequently, the vice chancellors of the federal universities were directed by the pro-chancellors to immediately re-open the universities for academic activities while the minor discrepancies are sorted out.

"Today, I am very pleased to announce that all contending issues between ASUU and the Federal Government have been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties.

"Let me emphasise that we recognise and appreciate ASUU's patriotic role and commitment towards ensuring that our universities are well funded to the point that they shore up to their counterparts in other parts of the world.

"Thus, we are all partners in progress and there are no victor, no vanquished in the struggle of this nature for as long as our goals remain noble not actuated at parochial interest and targeted at moving our nation forward", Mr. Wike said.

Responding, ASUU president expressed gratitude to all involved in brokering the truce. He said: "I really want to thank all of us that are gathered here for ensuring that we came this far, I think it's important to first acknowledge the intervention of Mr President because he was the one that made it possible to ensure that we came this far.

"Honourable minister, if what we had agreed on at that 13 hours meeting had been judiciously documented and our members were convinced that it would be implemented, we wouldn't have wasted this time because we have a lot of respect for the office of Mr President.

"Our members are intellectuals and it's simply because over the years particularly since the signing of the 2009 Agreement, we have been pursing government to get that agreement implemented we only succeeded in getting implemented a portion of that agreement and here we are over four years, but I think it's never too late.

"If we ever think that not placing high premium on our university education out of the doldrums, I want to assure all of us that we will be deceiving ourselves because other countries that are ahead have made sure that their universities are making cutting edge research" Dr. Fagge said.