JAMB set to release LASU admission merit list

 

The ‎Lagos State University, LASU, says its admissions merit list for the 2016/2017 academic session will be released in the next few days by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Acting Head, LASU’s Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Adekoya Martins, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.

Mr. Martins said the number of students to be offered admission on the merit list could not be ascertained by the university because it was being handled by JAMB.

He said the university had sent a list of the successful ‎candidates for the first batch of its admission screening to JAMB for approval.
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“Information reaching me from the admission office is that JAMB will release the merit list this week, but the number of the admitted students is undisclosed.

“We cannot actually determine the number of students that JAMB will approve for us in the first batch from the list that was ‎sent to the board by the university,’’ he said.

According to him, the screening form for the second list will be out as soon as the merit list candidates are released.

He said that only candidates that choose the university ‎as second choice could purchase the form.

Mr. Martins said sequel to the exercise for the screening of the second list candidates, a supplementary list would also be released.
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‎LASU had adopted online screening of candidates for‎ admission for the 2016/2017 academic session.

The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Olanrewaju Fagbohun, said that only candidates who chose LASU would be screened online.

Mr. Fagbohun, a professor, said that an online application portal had already been designed for the candidates to upload their results, certificates and other relevant data.‎

“The university will go online and shortlist the credentials of successful candidates, who chose LASU as their first choice for onward transmission to JAMB,’’ he said.

(NAN)

LASU sanctions 84 students over indecent dressing

Authorities of the Lagos State University (LASU) have issued warning letters to 84 students in different departments for indecent dressing even as it disqualified a student from contesting the forthcoming students’ union election.
The decision of the management is contained in a statement from the Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations (CIPPR) made available to Daily Sun disclosed that the Students Affairs Division (DSA) of LASU issued the warning letters to the 84 students for flouting the dress code of the institution.
A breakdown revealed that eight of the affected students are in the final year, three in 300 level, 20 in 200 level and 43 in 100 level.
Details of the students sanctioned showed that Faculty of Management Sciences to the list with 24 students, followed by Faculty of Arts with 18, Sciences 16, Social Sciences and Education recorded 11 students each and School of Communication has four students.
‘’The students have been magnanimously pardoned by the university authority and were warned to desist from the act of indecent dressing, henceforth or face disciplinary action, the CIPPR statement noted’’.
In a related development, the LASU management has disqualified one of the contestants from the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) presidential race. The action Daily Sun gathered is generating ripples.
Yusuf Omotola, a 300 level Economic Education Department, a presidential candidate in the students union was disqualified by the students’ affairs division for concealing his suspension at Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka.
The statement alleged that Omotola was suspended from the college on allegation of breach of peace and cultism in 2012 stressing ‘’there is no documentary evidence to prove that he has been cleared of this allegation or that his suspension from FCE Technical, Akoka has been vacated’’.
‘’Mr. YUSUFF, Wasiu Omotola was given several opportunities to redeem himself by voluntarily and honourably opting out of the LASUSU presidential race. However, such magnanimous entreaties were met with utter disdain and unbridled arrogance.
‘’It is on record that Mr. YUSUFF, Wasiu Omotola flagrantly refused to complete the security background check form made available to all contestants in the LASUSU general election race, DSA office noted.’’
The statement explained that in consonance with LASU management’s policy of zero tolerance to cultism and other forms of gangterism, the presidential aspirant, stands disqualified pending when he can provide documentary evidence that the allegation against him is false.
When Daily Sun called his mobile line five time, Omotola did not respond.