Ibadan Polytechnic Gives Scholarship To
10 Students For Excellent Performance In NIPOGA

Ten students of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who made the higher institution of learning proud during the zonal Nigeria Polytechnic Games, NIPOGA, have been offered scholarship.

Deputy rector, Mrs. Olubunmi Olubamiwa, made this known at the press conference heralding the 34th convocation of the institution.

It was learnt that the institution received 25 gold medals in tennis, basketball, scrabbles, chess and hockey at the games which took place at the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, in October 2019.

She said the management and the Rector of the institution; Professor Kazeem Adekunle Adebiyi approved the scholarship to motivate students and staff in the area of sporting activities.

According to her, the gesture was to prove that the institution does not only reward academic excellent alone but also gives full recognition to students that shine in the other field such as sports.

The convocation which starts this Friday would see Prof. Ayobami Ojebode, who is head of department of communications and language arts at the University of Ibadan speaking on ‘The dream, challenges and the reality of contemporary Nigeria for fresh graduates,’ on Thursday, 12th December, 2019.

Olubamiwa, who spoke further, said that any lecturer or any member of staff found in the habit of demanding sex for marks in the institution would be dealt with.

The management warned that any lecturer of the institution found demanding sex for marks in the institution will be sacked summarily after been made to face the standing committee to handle such offences.

It charged students who had previously fallen victim, to feel free to come forward to report any erring lecturer found to be engaged in the shameful act.

The institution said there are measures in place, standing disciplinary committees, to punish any lecturer found guilty of any offence capable of tarnishing the image of the higher institution of learning.

This is just as she said there is a staff disciplinary and students’ disciplinary committees to sanction anyone found guilty of sex scandal.

According to her, the achievements of the institution in recent time had outshined the challenges facing the school, and praised prompt intervention of the state government, unlike in the past.

She said; “like you have rightly said, there are challenges in every organisation but our prayer is that our right hand should be greater than our left hand that means our achievement should be greater than our challenges.

“I will like to say, in the current dispensation, most of our challenges have been addressed by the government of the day. A number of the moribund facilities have been resuscitated.