There are strong indications that the 44 final year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Sagamu, Ogun State, who are facing uncertainty over their future induction into the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN) due to a delay in results, will have their results approved tomorrow.
What is, however, not certain is their induction date. The students had alleged that the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Lateef Kasim, was negligent in the presentation of their results for approval.
However, in his response to The Guardian, Kasim condemned the students’ conduct and impatience, saying that he was always truthful and hospitable towards them and genuinely concerned about their welfare, but their recent behaviour showed a lack of confidence in him.
He refuted the claims that the results were not approved at the last Senate meeting because he didn’t provide electronic copies, but assured the students that the results would be presented for Senate’s approval this month, while induction will follow shortly, but did not say when.
The Dean told The Guardian yesterday: “Everything now rests on the Vice-Chancellor to decide. If they had listened to me and allowed me to handle issues as they were, everything would have been solved. I cannot categorically say what is in the VC’s mind, but I’m sure everything would be fine.”
It would be recalled as part of the protocol, the results would be approved at the university’s Senate meeting, usually held every last Thursday of the month.
But at the meeting held on April 24, 2025, the dean was reportedly said to have failed to supply the electronic copy of the results. Thus, the results of the 44 affected students missed the Senate’s approval.
After a fresh uproar, the students, parents, and some alumni besieged the office of the vice chancellor on April 28 to appeal the decision. A mixture of exasperation and anger drove the parents and students to write a letter of appeal to the dean. They arrived at the dean’s office with pleas and tears, but he allegedly told them another induction would be arranged for them in June.
