LASUSTECH Watch

The management of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu has announced dates for the verification exercise for indigenes of Lagos State who chose the Polytechnic in the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)   for the admission exercise. The exercise for candidates applying for National Diploma(ND) in the institution will commence with registration between Monday 23rd July and Sunday 29th July, 2018. Verification for this category will hold on Thursday 31st July,   2018. Similarly, the exercise for candidates applying for the Higher National Diploma(HND) commences registration between Wednesday August 22nd and Thursday August 28th 2018. Verification for this category will hold on Thursday 30th August, 2018.

Eke Van Victor With several candidates of the forthcoming SUG elections disqualified by the screening committee last Thursday, just one week to the election, the question on everyone's lips has been; will the SUG presidential candidate be unopposed? When contacted, Israel Olanloye, the presidential aspirant disqualified for security reasons said he was not ready to back out on the race he has begun. He absolved himself of any wrong accusations saying "I have never been involved in any domestic or physical violence in the polytechnic. Moreover, I have never been invited nor had any negative records with the security personnel on campus even during my ND days".

Eke van Victor ‎ Dark smokes from burning tyres ascending into the dark clouds, Whistles blasting from every corner of the communities, young men and women chanting and wielding cutlasses and sticks with torchlights in one hand. All these characterised the outbreak of the Badoo menace in Ikorodu exactly a year ago. In several communities, families had been maimed in their sleep by the Badoo cult and residents of those communities have in turn taken to the streets  to secure their lives and those of their household by staying up all night and setting tyres ablaze to scare the enemies away. Whoever ran out of luck and was found loitering around the streets in the late hours  of the night was immediately apprehended and judged by the angry mobs who on most occasions would beat the alleged culprit to death or even set them ablaze before the arrival of law enforcement agents. Rapidly, the rate of jungle justice took a great rise in the state and the news only took th...

Israel Victoria Whenever the citizens of Nigeria especially Families of the victims that lost their dear lives in the Inferno that occurred in the late hours of Thursday, the 28th of June 2018 hear the mention of the popular billionaires name 'Otedola', it won't be for familiarity but for sorrow and anguish. Also the killings in Plateau, Ibadan and Onisha respectively were enough to cripple the heart of anyone that heard the news. Whenever someone says have you had the breaking news today, your heart begins to pounce as to what calamity has befallen us again and to what extent, the fear of losing a family or loved ones comes to your thought and all you can wish for is to disappear out of this country. We could only pray to wake up from this bad dream. Wait a minute! Did i just say pray? Interesting, when did we become so spiritual that we neglect the use of our senses. Over the years our country has continue to degenerate into nothing with corruption, ki...

Biolatiri Adedamola Victor Industry Experts from different walks of life has urged students of Lagos State Polytechnic to obtain practical skills as this will serve as a means for them to be valuable in the 21st century. This call was made during the just concluded leadership symposium organized by the Students’ Union government held on Wednesday, 27th June 2018 at the 700 Seaters Hall in Ikorodu campus of the institution with the theme “Learning mentorship; skills you must acquire as any youth to excel in the 21st Century. According to the former public relations officer of the institution and a paper presenter at the symposium, Mr Steve Adesemoye,emphasized that students need to start acquiring skills that will blur the lines between the walls of the classroom and certification as their Curricula cannot catch up with the present digital world. “If the present trend of education which is seemingly not up to standard for what the future holds continues this way and i...