LIST OF CONTESTANTS FOR ELECTIONS TO REPRESENT CONGREGATION IN COUNCIL, SENATE AND COMMITEES

As at the close of submission of forms at 2pm on 12th October, 2012, for elections into Council, Senate, Ceremonial and Honorary Degree Committees, the list of contestants, in alphabetical order is as stated below:

The Provost, College of Humanities and Culture, Professor Kizito Abayomi Folorunso, wishes to invite the University community and the entire public to an independence anniversary panel discussion themed “52 Years After: Governance and Citizens’ Passivity in Nigeria”.

Date: 2nd October, 2012
Venue: ICT Building, College of Humanities and Culture, Ikire Campus
Time: 11 a.m

Announcer: Dr. Samuel Senayon Olaoluwa

The final burial rites and lying in state of the pioneer Provost of the College of Agriculture, Osun State University, will take place on Thursday September 27 at the Main Auditorium of Osun State University Osogbo at 12 noon.

All members of staff and students are encouraged to pay their last respects to our late colleague who until his death was the Vice-Chancellor of Samuel Adegboyega University (SAU) Ogwa, Edo State.

May his soul rest in peace

Signed
J.O Faniran, Ph.D
Registrar

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into one-year Pre-Degree Programme for the 2012/2013 Academic Session.

Consequent upon the granting of approval by the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the Commencement of seven new programmes in the University with effect from 2012/2013 session, Osun State University wishes to give notice that supplementary Post-UTME screening for the seven new programmes will hold on Saturday, 21st July, 2012

Notice is hereby given that the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening exercise will hold on Saturday 16th June, 2012 at 10.00 am for candidates who chose Osun State University as their 1st and/or 2nd choice, with a minimum score of 200 and above.

The Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Sola Akinrinade, FHSN, has congratulated the Governor of the State of Osun and Visitor to Osun State University, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on the occasion of his 55th birthday.

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of a 7-man visitation panel, headed by a Professor of Agronomy in the College of Agriculture of Osun State University, Professor Olurotimi Tayo, to unravel allegations of fraud and poor
management system against the Governing Council and management of the Federal Universit y of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State.

The Minister of Education, Professor Ruqqayatu Rufai who made the announcement while inaugurating the visitation panel in Abuja, stated that the panel was constituted following series of petitions received in her office. The panel is expected to investigate the inability of the institution to attract and employ qualified staff to fill critical vacancies; find out channels through which federal government’s subventions are misapplied and the reason for disregard for protocol and tenets of the public service rules by the university management. The Panel is expected to come up with useful recommendations that would assist the government in taking appropriate decisions concerning the University. The Minister listed other members of the panel as Ikenna Onyido, Chris Tamuno, Abdu Gimba, Adamu Ahmed, P. Oshio and Ori Okojokwu.

While reacting to the appointment, the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Sola Akinrinade said Professor Tayo is an experienced scholar and administrator and wished him success in the assignment. The Vice-Chancellor recalled that in 2011, two former staff of the institution were appointed foundation Vice-Chancellors of Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa and Adeleke University, Ede while the Acting Provost of the College of Education of Osun State University, Professor Oladega Soriyan was also appointed by Ogun State Government as member of a visitation and fact-finding panel for Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta. He promised that Osun State University would continue to raise men and women imbued with the requisite skills, knowledge and competencies to be the arrow heads of the socio- economic and technological development of Nigeria.

Osun State University presents the Seventh Inaugural Lecture titled "Emerging Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases - Conspiracy Against the Kidney" to be delivered by Prof. ALEBIOSU C. Olutayo (B.Sc, MBChB, FWACP)
Date: Wednesday, 18 April, 2012.
Venue: Osun State University Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo.
Time: 2.00pm

The attention of the general public is being drawn to the expulsion of the under listed students for various offences indicated against
their names as follows:
LIST OF STUDENTS ON EXPULSION AS AT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011