I am a living witness to OOU development under Otunba Gbenga Daniels regime. - Otinwa Lanre Abraham OGD inherited a room and parlour OOU and within a twinkle of an eye, turned things around for good. As a student then with matric no 03045..., our PS was known as Permanent Stress. The reasons for that werent far fetch. The stress then starts from garage where well have to wait under the sun for hours before the old Oyeneye benz (molue) will come to convey us to school for lectures, getting to the first bridge after Chips filling station was another hell as the bridge was a mono carriage, meaning the first to get to the bridge, crosses to the other side. It was on this bridge that Tunji Olakitan and Titi Olakitan(my school mates from RSS till OOU days) lost their father when a tipper coming from Chips had break failure and ran the cars on the bridge thereby killing the passengers. As if the stress were not enough then, Osoba administration tarred one side of the dual carriage road from the main gate down to a junction that separates admin from main school. All thanks to Olu Nla, who put smile on our faces by providing for us, conducive, comfortable and affordable transportation scheme. We were given like 5 Marcopolo with 3 plying PS and 2 for mini campus route. Asoludero constructed a dual carriage bridge to ensure our safe and prompt trip to school. Obalofin in contrast to the present administration, tarred the second side of the road and extend it down to the school library where we have a round about directly opposite the school clinic, however government worldwide is continuum. OGD in his sympathy for OOUites influenced banks to have their branches inside the school premises to relief us of stress, time wastage and risk of travelling to Ijebu Ode and Sagamu to pay school fees or other banking calls. Our lecture halls were of secondary school standard in terms of capacity and learning facilities. We had just one LLT (1500capacity) before OGD regime. I could remember going for GNS101 class as early as 6:30am and yet I received the lecture standing on my feet all because LLT1 couldnt contain Accounting, Bus Admin, Economics and B. and Finance year1 students at once. Though, there are other existing lecture theatres but too small to contain us then. Adebola Adegunwa (500capacity), Ajayi Okunuga (250capacity) Transport (250capacity) etc. OGD again got his priorities right on the challenge and with the next session, things changed for better. LLT2 (2000capacity) was built, OGD hall (2500capacity),Faculty of law was moved from mini campus to PS with conducive lecture halls(like two I think). OOU before OGD had FMS(with four departments) and FSS(not less than 6 departments) sharing one single building. Lecturers then could not lay claims to having a private office then. Even my HOD then Dr. George had his office partitioned to accommodate Mr Omitogun and Mr Kazeem (the department secretary). Before I graduated in 2008, FMS complex with commendable number of offices and lecture rooms was commissioned and our lecturers have their personal offices where Students can meet them when necessary, compare to when lectures comes to school to deliver lecture and leave the school premises after. All these laudable touches were done with little and affordable tuition fees. My tuition fees were #11210, #10710, #10710 and #10710 respectively.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:02:53 +0000
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