Abia poly outlaws sale of handouts, abolishes statement of results

By Steve Oko

The Management of Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic Aba (formerly Abia Poly) said it had outlawed the merchantability of handouts successful the instauration to halt the exploitation of students.

The Rector, Dr Christopher Okoro, who disclosed this erstwhile the caller Executive of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abia State, paid him a courtesy sojourn successful his office, besides said that the absorption had besides abolished the issuance of connection of results to marque things casual for students.

“Students are nary longer compelled to bargain textbooks. Those things were things of the past. Sale of handouts is outlawed,” the Rector thundered.

“We person digitalised the processes to guarantee things are done the close way. We person abolished the issuance of Statement of Results.”

Explaining wherefore the enactment became imperative, helium queried: “How volition a pupil decorativeness up aft 5 years and you springiness the idiosyncratic insubstantial and telephone it Statement of Results? And past the idiosyncratic volition transportation it, astir apt wage for the clearance, and travel backmost aft years for certificates and you inactive cod wealth again from the aforesaid person, and commencement looking for the files again? I said no!

“Upon graduation, students should beryllium fixed certificates. And these certificates person QR codes. So, they are verifiable anywhere. Once an leader scans this QR code, it directs to the Registrar and Rector. The holder’s sanction volition appear. We volition reply whether oregon not the idiosyncratic is our product.”

The Rector besides said that the absorption had made it casual for students to get their results without passing done the lecturers to debar exploitation.

“Once exam is over, each results indispensable beryllium uploaded six weeks aft examination. Four weeks for those of them successful finals, and six weeks for the rest. So, students don’t request to spell and conscionable the lecturer.”

The Rector further said that the payment of unit “is treated arsenic priority”, revealing that 36 months of wage arrears accumulated by erstwhile administrations had been cleared.

“We are not conscionable student-centred, we are besides staff-centred. Our unit members person been taken attraction of. All their arrears of salaries person been cleared.

“We came connected committee having 36 months’ wage but the Governor has supported america to wide these areas arsenic we nary longer beryllium anybody connected the campus.

“Not conscionable that, helium has besides ensured that unit members who were not promoted since 2008-2012 person been promoted up to 2022. And past we person started the 2nd signifier of promotion that volition instrumentality america to 2025. It truthful means that His Excellency has paid the indebtedness helium did not owe,” helium said.

The Rector further said that the instauration which was deregistered by the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, astir 3 years ago, had gained afloat accreditation for each its 33 programmes with further 17 caller programmes.

“All the programmes present person been accredited. NBTE besides granted support for 17 caller programmes,” Dr Okoro said.

He identified immoderate of the caller programmes arsenic Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security Machatronics Engineering, Fashion Design Technology, among others.

“We person Leather Technology arsenic a caller programme. We person Fashion Design Technology arsenic a caller programme. Aba is known for manner and design. So determination is nary mode we tin person Aba and not person manner and leather.

“This Polytechnic is the archetypal successful the full Southern Nigeria to person Leather Technology arsenic a Department. This instauration is besides the archetypal Polytechnic successful Nigeria to person Artificial Intelligence arsenic a department. We cognize the times and we volition enactment up of others,” Okoro said.

Attributing the institution’s occurrence stories to “massive enactment from Gov. Alex Otti, the Rector said Otti’s enactment “is a enactment that thinks not conscionable for the present but for the future.”

He thanked the Governor for awarding the operation of interior roads connected the field including its imperishable tract astatine Osisioma.

“He approved the operation of 2 hostels of 5,000 capableness each for antheral and pistillate students astatine the Osisioma campus. The Governor has besides fixed support for the operation of modular auditorium and iconic administrative artifact gathering astatine the Osisioma campus,” helium said.

According to him, “All these things are geared towards ensuring that world activities commence astatine the Osisioma field successful 2025-2026 world sessio...