LASUSTECH Watch

LASUSTECH Third Gate Photo: Moshood Hameedat • Fee skyrockets from #5000 to #30,000  • Management gives forex increase for reason • “Outrageous and inconsiderate” Students react • “We are your fathers. We are not wicked” PRO clears air around controversies Safiu Kehinde, Adebayo Nurudeen, Ibrahim Habeeb, & Bisiryu Hassan Lagos State Polytechnic’s students have decried the sudden 500 percent hike in price of the institution’s certificate fee by the school management as they call on the state government’s intervention over the increment. Sponsored Advert The Polytechnic’s Governing Council had, in a memo circulated earlier last week, announced the change in certificate fee which skyrocketed from 5000 Naira to 30,000 Naira. As contained in the memo, the Governing Council had, in April, held meeting over a proposed upward review of students’ ancillary fees which subjected the certificate fee to change alongside others. The approval of the increment, however, did not augur well fo...

Management bans parking behind Library Complex • Reinforces ban on tinted Vehicles Barricade mounted behind the Library Complex Photo: Safiu Kehinde  Safiu Kehinde The Management of Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) has barred parking of vehicles behind the Library Complex while also reinforcing the ban on tinted vehicles on campus. As contained in last week’s edition of LASUSTECH News issued by Directorate of Information and Public Relations, the ban was imposed by the management to promote orderliness and safety. “Management has observed with dismay the unauthorized parking of vehicles behind the Library Complex of Ikorodu Campus. Vehicles should be parked at designated car parks to ensure safety and orderliness on the campus. To this effect, the University Management has directed that henceforth, no one should park vehicle (s) behind the University Library. Anybody found violating this directive of the Management will be sanctioned.” The publication ...

Arts Èkó e rèé (This is your Lagos) Èkó e rèé sculpture erected at the Department of Arts and Industrial Design Photo: Adebayo Nurudeen  Adebayo Nurudeen  A landscape depicting the outskirts of Lagos State has been erected at the department of Arts Èkó and Industrial Design. The relief metal sculpture made of fiber glass, iron rod and metals was designed by a final year students of Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Joel Oguntola , and titled ‘EKO E’RE ( THIS IS YOUR LAGOS). Lagos is the proclaimed centre of excellence, with a common saying that it accommodates “owners of the house, the guest and the lazy.” The sculpture is a tool to serve as a means of sense of belonging to the students of the institution who has come from various states within the country, and might not be privileged to leave the outskirts of the school before graduating. From the upper left of the sculpture is the new Yaba Terminal, which operates through the route of lawanson-i...

Drama  as Students Clash over Endowment after Sanwo-Olu’s visit Safiu Kehinde The visitation of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH)   ended on a frenzy note yesterday as students clashed over the money gifted by the Governor after his departure. Sanwo-Olu had, yesterday, paid the Institution a courtesy visit,   supervising the ongoing Senate/Admin building construction before addressing the group of students who, led by the Students Union Government’s President, Balogun Aderemi, came to honor the Governor’s presence. As a form of gratitude to their gesture, the governor offered the SUG President a token of cash wrapped into brown envelopes. Shortly after the governor’s exit, argument aroused among the students over the money. It took the intervention of the school Public Relations Officer, Dr. Olanrewaju Kuye, to prevent the SUG President from being mobbed. Following the dissolution of the...

“Because I am a Daddy that also listen…” Sanwo-Olu vows to fulfil students’ three requests Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, supervising the Senate/Admin building at LASUSTECH yesterday Photo: Semilore Adelola Safiu Kehinde Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has vowed to fulfil the three requests made by the students of Lagos State University of Science and Technology during a courtesy visit to the Institution yesterday. Following the Governor’s supervision of the ongoing Senate/Admin building construction, the President of the Students Union Government, Balogun Aderemi, requested for four things on behalf of the students which include provision of bus, renovation of the SUG building, construction of Sporting Complex, and addressing the speculations surrounding the increment of school fees ahead of the 2022/2023 academic session. In reaction, the Governor vowed to fulfil the first three requests while debunking the speculations surrounding school fees. His words: “To yo...