By Com. Akinsanya Ezekiel (PRO I)

Just of recent, the Students' Union Government of the prestigious The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki recently launched a software application which has been effective since the 23rd of April, 2017. The application has soon generated series of commendations from within and outside the institution as students and well wishers thinks it is a nice idea of bringing a change and promoting a new era of going about the movements of students' unionism in the state. 

Intimating the Rector of the TOPS' institution about the development, Mr. Oladeji Matthew by the Students' Union President, Com. Komolafe Dare Emmanuel on facebook,  the Rector however gave a meritorious commendation about the development saying 'Kudos. Progressive step in a positive direction." However, he urged the SUE to be more mindful and careful of security issues to protect the students from cyber fraud and which the leadership of the SUE is not going to allow that happen. 
The Rector was however notified that this application would help enhance communication for a good effective interactive communication is the heart of leadership and also enable the students to have access on how to access their portal via this application, check their results, visit the school website e.t.c. 

Speaking with the SUG President, Com. Komolafe Emmanuel Dare, he said "ever since we launched the application, students have been turning up and have been making good use of the said application and he however urged fellow students to likewise download the application seeing it is for their benefit and it was launched because of them. He later added that "the leadership of this Union is making prospective plans to livestream the football competition coming up later this month and encouraged all hands to be on deck. 

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By Com. Oyeniran Tawakalit Omolabake

Just of recent, the Students' Union Executives of the prestigious The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki recently launched a software application which has been effective since the 23rd of April, 2017. The application has soon generated series of commendations from within and outside the institution as students and well wishers thinks it is a nice idea of bringing a change and promoting a new era of going about the movements of students' unionism in the state in a new innovative way.

Speaking with the President of the Union, Comrade Komolafe Emmanuel Dare, he thanked God for the success of the whole activity as he meritoriously commended the efforts of his team saying "I hold it up to the members of my executive team. He believes that the application will help enhance communication between the students and the SUE and also, he said the application came with series of android feature such as "TOPS FORUM" which was created for the purpose of bringing the entire students community under one body. Under the registration under this form, students are expected to register via their email or facebook account/googleplus account, opportunity to send messages to every executive, opportunity to visit the school website, request transcript, check results, visit students' portal, read major daily newspaper such as Tribune, The Nation, The Punch, Guardian, Vanguard e.t.c. and he also added that there is a provision to do something that has never been done before in the history of The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki. He intimated our corresponded that the Students' Union is planning of livestreaming the SUG sport competition that would be coming up later this month. He said that "I believe there is a need to promote our school and the good image of our students, with this application, it would be made accessible to people in over 100 nations of the world which will give them the opportunity of our students being watched LIVE! This event is highly being anticipated by we the SUE and the entire students because we are planning of doing it big and all thanks be to God and members of the Feasibility TEAM!

He promised to keep doing all what he can to ensuring a consolidative students' unionism and he encouraged the students to be cooperative enough.

SAVE DAMILOLA

By OYENIRAN TAWAKALIT 

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Good Evening Fellow Active Citizens,

I believe that our week has been up to a good start.

My first email on the above subject went out exactly a month ago. I want to thank you all for your tremendous support towards this cause… thank you so much for the show of love in true brotherhood.

As earlier stated, it's an appeal to raise at least N7million (Seven Million Naira) on behalf of Okunola Damilola Samuel for the urgent surgery and treatment required for his kidney transplant.

BACKGROUND- Damilola was diagnosed of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (collapsing variant) in 2003 at UCH (Hospital Number 103084). In his words, “Aunty, *I am only still alive today because of JCI Nigeria* as there was no other hope for me to continue my dialysis. I am extremely grateful to JCI Nigeria for choosing to take me up as a Project and save my life”… For me, that was quite deep!

We have to continue to pay for his dialysis (which costs about N100,000 per week) until the surgery is done.

RESPONSIBILITY - The responsibility is to make a deliberate effort towards raising a total sum of at least N7m (Seven Million Naira) being the cost of Damilola's surgery.

UPDATE – We started this campaign a month ago and as at this morning (Tuesday 4th April, 2017), the account balance in the Save Damilola Project Account is N2,040,832.49 and USD270 and pledges of over N3m (yet to be redeemed). This simply means that if all pledges are redeemed, we have just about N2m to go…..Meaning, we are almost there!!!

OUR REQUEST FROM YOU - We are well aware that you may have given in the past, but we hope God lays it upon your heart to give again as we go all out this time around to raise the FULL amount failing which we'll have to keep spending from whatever we raise for his weekly dialysis which does not solve the issue completely; yet must not be stopped (according to his Doctors).

SPECIAL APPRECIATION
- To the JCI Nigeria Senate Association for answering our call AGAIN despite the fact that a lot of the members had given last yearwe cannot thank you enough.
- All JCI Nigeria Chapters who have been encouraging members to give, came up with different creative ways to raise funds, shared, regranned, reposted or retweeted our campaign, sent us details of individuals or companies that we could write to for support, introduced us to bloggers who put up our post for free (one of which yielded the US Dollars transfer that is part of the funds raised) etc…. we are extremely grateful.

A SPECIAL APPEAL
- We want to specially appeal to us all to begin to send in our pledges.

- For Chapters that are still contributing, we want to request that you kindly send in all that has been raised so far so as we try to begin to gradually wind down and put funds together for onward transfer to the University College Hospital, Ibadan for Damilola’s surgery.

YES, WE CAN!
- Please retweet our tweets, repost our (FaceBook etc) posts, regran our Instagram posts, send us details of bloggers who can post the campaign on our behalf, get creative about this......let's do a "marathon" of this campaign in the coming days.

Once again, find below the account details once again: -
Account Name: Nigeria Junior Chamber
Bank: Zenith Bank
Account Number: 1014761989

OUR HOPE - We are hopeful that the surgery will be successful and we would leave the work of healing to God, who alone has the power to heal.......Our Faith is in God because ONLY Faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life.

Our hope has not and will not wane and we are still full of trust in God that we will pull this through very soon.
Again, may we never have to repay ourselves in this manner…..Amen!

P.S – Damilola sends his love and appreciation to us all. We have told him to just relax and that at the right time; he will officially thank us all.
#SaveDami

Thank you and God bless us all. Have an Amazing April ahead!
With High Regards,

Adetola Juyitan (JCI Nigeria Ambassador)
2017 JCI Nigeria Executive Vice President (North West)

TOPS RESUMES SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

By Com. Tawakalit Omolabake

PRO II

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It is no longer a rumour that the management of The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki has communicated to every student that the school resumes officially on the 3rd of April, 2017. This was made known as a result of the copy of the proposed Academic Calendar for second semester that was sent to the Secretariat of the Students' Union. 

The information below announces much more on the recent development.

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Resumption Date for ALL STUDENTS - Monday, 3rd April, 2017

Registration for ALL STUDENTS (4 Weeks) - Monday, 3rd - Friday, 28th April, 2017

Late Registration ( 2 Weeks) - Monday 1st - Friday, 12th May, 2017

2nd Semester Lectures (15 weeks) - Monday, 3rd April - Friday, 14th July, 2017

2nd Semester Examinations (2 Weeks) - Monday 17th - Friday, 28th July, 2017

Marking and Grading of Examinations (2 Weeks) - Tuesday, 1st - Friday, 11th August, 2017

Consideration of the 2nd Semester Results by the Academic Board (1 Week) - Monday, 14th - Friday, 18th August, 2017

End of 2nd Semester of 2016/2017 Academic Year - Friday, 18th August, 2017

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After due consultation with the Dean of Students' Affairs in the person of Mr. Adejumobi Caleb who also confirm the development as being true and which he urged all students to resume back on time so that they could finish up their registration on time. 

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