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Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba (formerly Abia State Polytechnic), has regained accreditation for 33 programmes mislaid astir 3 years ago, conscionable arsenic it has introduced 17 caller courses.
The rector of the institution, Christopher Okoro, stated this erstwhile the caller leaders of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abia State council, paid him a courtesy sojourn successful his office.
He explained that nether him, the absorption of the polytechnic had made it casual for students to get their results without passing done the lecturers successful bid to debar exploitation.
“Once examinations are over, each results indispensable beryllium uploaded wrong six weeks after. Four weeks for those of them successful finals, and six for the rest,” helium said.
Informing that with this, the students nary longer person to spot their lecturers. “We’re not conscionable student-centered, we’re besides staff-centered. All their arrears of salaries person been cleared.
”We came connected committee having 36-month wage arrears but the governor, Alex Otti, has supported america to wide them arsenic we nary longer beryllium anybody connected the campus.”
According to Okoro, the absorption had besides ensured that unit members who were not promoted since 2008-2012 person been promoted up to 2022.
”We’ve started the 2nd signifier of promotion that volition instrumentality america to 2025. It, therefore, means that His Excellency has paid the indebtedness helium did not owe.”
Earlier, the chapel chairman, Steve Oko, said they came to little the rector connected the activities of the chapel, and research ways of symbiotic narration betwixt them and the institution.
Describing the rector arsenic a phenomenal cause of change, helium lauded him “for transforming the polytechnic from obscurity to stardom” successful little than 2 years.
Oko tasked the polytechnic connected prime probe enactment and assured of the readiness of the chapel to task the state-owned instauration successful the media space.
The chairman, who was elected past month, urged the rector to ever patronise nonrecreational journalists and to beware of quacks masquerading arsenic newsmen.
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