Lecturers at the Ondo State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO), under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), have demanded urgent removal of the Chairman of Governing Council, Mr. Banji Alabi, to save the institution from total collapse.

Academic activities were yesterday suspended following the gruesome murder of a lecturer of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Mr. Taiwo Akinyemi, by kidnappers. Akinyemi was abducted on Tuesday along with three others near Amurin Village along Owo-Akure Road. The killing may be due to the inability of the kidnappers to pick the N500,000…

Tertiary institutions have been admonished to brace up to current challenges of funding. The new Chairman, Governing Council, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo, Ondo State, Barrister Banji Alabi, made this remark at the weekend, during a meeting with stakeholders in the school, to map out strategies for expanding sources of revenue for the institution. He…

Fourteen students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, who were arrested by the police during a violent demonstration a few days ago, have been arraigned before an Owo Magistrate Court. The students, including 13 males and one female, were brought before the Chief Magistrate Court II sitting at the GRA in the town with Charge…

Tragedy struck at Igbekebo yesterday, the headquarters of Ese-Odo Local Council of Ondo State, when a student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Oladotun Olagundoye, was found dead in a river.

The ASUP Chairman, Rafiu Ijawoye, who led other union leaders to a press conference in Akure at the weekend, lamented that the infrastructure of the institution is in poor condition.

A twenty-one-year-old student of Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo State, name withheld, was serially raped by a gang of five boys, who recorded their sex escapade with a mobile phone. 

The statement signed by Mr Rufus Oguntoyinbo and Mr Stephen Oluwole, the Chairman and the Secretary of the association respectively, said not less than 57 of them had died in the last three years.

A wild rage swept the ancient town of Owo in Ondo State at the weekend as three students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo, were shot during a heated argument between some policemen and the students.