The Governing Council of Olabisi Onabanjo University,\u00a0 Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State has relieved 962 staffers of the university of their appointments.<\/p>\n
Disclosing this to newsmen, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the governing Council, Chief Alex Onabanjo said the sack was part of the on-going restructuring in the institution which started at the university in April.<\/p>\n
He said seven Professors, five Readers, nine Senior Lecturers, 27 lecturers I, 24 lecturers II, 19 assistant lecturers and three graduate assistants were affected.<\/p>\n
The Pro-Chancellor further stated that 459 academic staff were retained by the council saying \u201cwith a projection of 61 additional academic staff to be employed thereby bringing the number of academic staff in the Humanities to 235, 285 in the Sciences while 733 non-teaching staff were retained.<\/p>\n
The step taken by the council became necessary, according to him, because of the prevailing circumstances in the institution, saying that the over-bloated work force of the institution had grossly contravened the requirements of the National University Commission (NUC) in staff recruitment, assuring that the \u201cright-sizing exercise would put things in proper shape.<\/p>\n
He stated further that the staff affected by the exercise would be given three months salary in lieu of the termination of their appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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