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EKSU Calls Off Strike | Resumes School and Fixes Exam Date

EKSU Calls Off ASUU Strike, School Resumption Thursday, 22nd September 2022, Exam Date Monday, 24th October 2022.

This is to inform all Ekiti State University Students that the management of the school has directed the full resumption of academic activities.

EKSU Calls Off Strike

EKSU Calls Off Strike | Ekiti State University Suspends ASUU Strike.

The Management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU) has directed the full academic resumption of academics activities from Thursday, 22nd September 2022.

The School management also said that round-off lectures for the second semester of the 2020/2021 academic session have been scheduled to hold between Thursday, 22nd September, and Friday, 21st October 2022.

Bode Olofinmuagun Head, Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs, stated that the second-semester examination for the 2020/2021 academic session would hold between Monday, 24th October and Saturday, 5th November 2022.

While, lectures for fresheners (100-level students admitted for the 2021/2022 academic session) will commence on Monday, 3rd October 2022.

The Management of the Ekiti State University has also asked all the academic and non-teaching staff of EKSU to give their best support so that both academic sessions of  2020/2021 and 2021/2022 would be completed without much delay.

Olofinmuagun also stated that“only duly registered students of the university will have access to all the academic activities,”.

About Ekiti State University (Brief History)

Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti (EKSU) is located in the city of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State in Western Nigeria. It was established on 30 March 1982 as Obafemi Awolowo University, Ado-Ekiti by the first civilian governor of Ondo State (Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin). Ekiti State University is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

According to Webometrics EKSU (Ekiti State University) was ranked Nigerian 3rd best State University. Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, also known as EKSU stands as the only university in Nigeria that has had its name changed four times within a period quarter century. Firstly the name was Obafemi Awolowo University, Ado-Ekiti in 1982, it was changed to Ondo State University in 1985, University of Ado-Ekiti in November 1999, on September 2011 it became Ekiti State University of Ado Ekiti.

EKSU started in an old catering rest house in Akure but later moved to a temporary site in Ado-Ekiti where lectures commenced with one hundred and thirty-six (136) students who were spread in the Faculties of Arts, Science and Social Sciences, but during the 1983/84 session, new courses biology, geology, French, chemistry, philosophy, religious studies, Yoruba studies, political science, and psychology, were introduced to support the existing faculties.

In the 1983/84 academic session Faculty of Education was established as the fourth faculty in this institution and the number of students in this faculty helped in increasing the student population to 724. After the establishment of the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Engineering (Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering) and the Department of Banking and Finance were established in 1985/1986. In 1991/1992 the Faculty of Law was established, and later in 2001, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences was established making it up to eight (8) Faculties in general with a student population of 10,000. Currently, the Student population of Ekiti State University is over 25,000.

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