Munachi
Abii, Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria (MBGN) 2007
Four months into her reign, the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN)
and Nigeria’s hope at the 2007 edition of Miss World Munachi Abii,
says it’s been a wonderful experience being a queen, In this
encounter she told My Style her preparedness for the 2007 Miss
World. By
Yemisi Abah
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How we apprehend cultists – Laspotech Rector By MEDINAT ADAMSON Tuesday, March 17, 2009
•Babatunde Iginla
Pix: Sun News
Mr. Babatunde Iginla, an engineer is the Rector of the Lagos
state polytechnic. Though he became the Rector in 2007, he has
been in the school system since 1977.
In an interview with Daily Sun recently, the
teacher, author and public analyst gave an insight into his
background. He also spoke on the institution’s major problem,
how they apprehend cultists, the scrapping of HND among other
issues. Background
I was born on August 19, 1955 into the family of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Olufemi Gbodamosi Iginla at Isale Agoro, Epe. I
attended Children Home School, and Christ’s High School both at
Ibadan. I later proceeded to Remo Secondary School, Sagamu, in
1971 for my Higher School Certificate. I worked for nine months
while awaiting my results as a pay clerk at the pay office of
the Federal Ministry of Finance at Mosaic House, Tinubu, and
Lagos.
I gained admission into the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba,
Lagos where I read Chemistry in 1973. I was awarded the Lagos
State Undergraduate Scholarship, graduated with a Second Class
Upper and awarded the National Bursary of the Federal Government
for being the best student in the Faculty of Science.
I joined the services of LASPOTECH in 1977 and was granted study
leave to study for a Masters of Philosophy degree in
Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the then University of Ife, Ile Ife
before returning back to the school in 1983. Processing results
Before the era of computerization of results, we manually
combined our results but when we joined the group, we started
using results combination software.
We started with a software called Optima 2000 for the Part Time,
and then in 2003, we started using Laurel 2003. The softwares
later developed a fault which we could not rectify after much
attempt to set things right. Results started to pile up, so we
had to revert to the old form of combining results. This process
was very slow because we had dropped it a long time ago.
We now have a new result processing software called the
regarding robot which we have redeployed for the 2007/2008
results. Now all first semester 2007/2008 full time results have
been considered and approved by the academic board. The
regrading robot is much more modern and faster we plan to work
it up with our portal in a short while. Harassment in school
I can assure you that all cases of harassment happen out of the
school and by non-students or students who have been rusticated
from LASPOTECH or other polytechnics and universities in the
country. Whatever happens outside the school premise becomes the
responsibility of the Nigeria police. Cult activities
Since the mid 80’s we have had cult activities in all tertiary
institutions in Nigeria. The best we have been able to do is to
minimize their activities because we cannot completely eradicate
it. Right now, there are no laws that deal with cultists. They
are still handled under the criminal code. They can be
apprehended, taken to the police station and bailed out the same
day if there are no cases of murder or manslaughter. Cases of
cult activities and the likes within our campuses have been
seriously minimized. We recently dismissed 3 highly placed
(Notorious) cult members. A case that involved the Lagos State
Government. How we apprehend cultists
We have reports given to us by our intelligent officers. When
their identities are known, we let them know that we know them
and place them on probation. The kind of probation that allows
them in the school until their names are mentioned on any
criminal act. We dismiss them after they are apprehended and
given fair hearing.
Also, we are in close contact with the community where our
campuses are located. We also get reports from students and
victims. We have a complaint box, the lasposianscomplain@yahoo.com
where students can make their complaints. There is also a
telephone number 08029069988, where students can send SMS only
to. We have a weekly newsflash giving weekly information of the
happenings in the campuses.
We have a LASPOTECH community relations committee. We also have
plans to build police stations in all areas where these campuses
are located.
For example, the Lambo village situated here in Ikorodu has
become a hiding place for criminals. The students retreat that was held
It is a wrong impression to think the students retreat was done
to buy them over. There has never been an instance where the
management of the institution interfered with the affairs of the
student union and the fact that we don’t get involved in the
electoral process is a prove that we were not buying them over.
The retreat was to expose them to what they will be facing in
the course of carrying out their activities especially in the
modern society. Dr Olu Bankole Gbangbobo a psychologist from the
University of Lagos was there with many other people who can
impact positively in them.
This included past leaders of the polytechnic and other
polytechnics to talk about their experiences. I want to say here
that, the retreat which took 30hours was a success. Scrapping of HND
The matter of HND has not being fully settled. The last decision
was that there would no longer be HND and there has not been an
enabling effect to it.
The COHEADS said there is no way we can put technological
education to the background because it is this era of education
that brought the world to where it is now.
You cannot put practical things away. After reading, you put
things to practice. You cannot find two people doing the same
thing the same way. Doing things practically leads you to other
ways of doing that thing. It cannot be relegated. If it is
scrapped, then it should be replaced with Bachelors of
Technology. Our concern is that while attaining B.Tech, we do
not loose sight of technological education. It will not be right
calling it University of Technology or better still adopt the
Kenya way by calling them Polytechnic University. LASPOTECH, Omatek Partnership
We partnered with Omatek for several reasons, one is that we
needed to open up other avenues for revenue generation for our
LASPOTECH Consult. Omatek wanted us to be a distribution centre
for Omatek products, which will earn us commission, so we said
why not. Omatek is also a computer assemblage company and are
involved in CAN, Computer For All Nigerians. We will be bringing
in computers into the community and thereby promoting what we
have in stock for the polytechnic in respect to information and
communication technology. The institution’s major problem
The major problem of this institution is funding and this
affects all institutions of learning be it primary, secondary or
even the nursery schools. Part-time students who cannot go for service
That unfortunately is a recent development. At a recent meeting
with the NYSC management, and other relevant bodies, this issue
was raised that you will not be allowed to go for service if you
do not possess a letter of admissions from the Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and you know that part time
students do not have this. Making the institution residential
We are presently on this. We have just advertised for
expressions of company and about two companies showed interest
at the beginning but the two has narrowed down to one and of
course we cannot deal with one person so we are waiting for
other companies to show interest. We have the intention of
building hostels with all the modern facilities there.
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