Abia Poly Regains Accreditation For 33 Programmes

Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba (formerly Abia Poly), has regained accreditation for 33 programmes mislaid astir 3 years ago, conscionable arsenic it introduced 17 caller ones.

The Rector, Christopher Okoro, stated this erstwhile the caller leaders of the Correspondents’ Chapel, 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 lecturers to debar exploitation.

He said, “Once examinations are over, each results indispensable beryllium uploaded wrong six weeks ,  4 weeks for final-year students, and six weeks for the rest. With this, students nary longer person to spot their lecturers. We’re not conscionable student-centered, we’re besides staff-centered. All arrears of salaries person been cleared.

“We came connected committee with 36 months’ wage arrears, but Governor Alex Otti has supported america to wide them. We nary longer beryllium anybody connected campus.”

Okoro disclosed.

According to Okoro, the absorption has 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 truthful means that His Excellency has paid a 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 concern with 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 the chapel’s readiness 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 beware of quacks masquerading arsenic newsmen.