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  Ibukun Keyano     The FATSSSA House of Representatives held her 6 th legislative sitting last Friday, the 25 th of November 2022. A lot of insufficiently discussed items on the agenda of the previous Sitting which held on the 11 th became backlogged on this.   One of those things was the FATSSSA General Secretary’s budget. A sum of N6,100 had been approved at the last sitting and the remainder was to be presented to the House at this sitting.   Miss. Fisayo Adedokun, the General Secretary of the Association walked up to the podium and presented a budget of N5,000 for printing of the Association’s correspondences among other things.   This sum raised some eyebrows and the Speaker, Rt. Honourable Adoyi had to clarify that it was for the first semester only and not for both semesters.   Miss. Fisayo explained that the office of the General Secretary handles a lot of paperwork and so, has to do a lot of printing. She used the las...

  Design a site like this with WordPress.com Get started Skip to content By Miracle Boluere On Wednesday, the 16th of November 2022, the Nigerian Universities Geography Students Association (NUGSA) UI, had it’s first inauguration of the NUGSA Council and the NUGSA Judicial Council. The inauguration started at around 3:30pm with a representative from the NUGSA Electoral Commission (NEC) in person of Miss Kawthar welcoming everyone present to the short notice meeting. The chairman of the NEC Miss Meekness expressed her overwhelming Joy in the her welcome speech as she was glad that after a long time of not having these two associations in power, it’s been finally brought back to life in her time. She urged the Representatives to take their job seriously as they have been called to serve. The president of the association Mr Olarewaju Taiwo also welcomed everyone, gave a special welcome to the staff adviser, Dr Olaniran. He also urged the members of the different councils to carry out ...

  The House of Representatives of the Faculty of The Social Sciences Students Association has inaugurated a Constitution Review Committee. This was at her Sitting held on Friday November 25, 2022.  The Committee will be set with the duty to overhaul the existing Constitution and pronounce a new one. At a prior Sitting of the FHR, a fortnight earlier, the Speaker of the House Hon. Idoko Adoyi says "...we are basically rebuilding FATSSSA. It is a really long journey ahead..."     WHAT IS A CONSTITUTION REVIEW? In  acceptable political parlance, the Review of a Constitution is significantly differentiated from the process for its amendments. The constitutional amendments will involve one or more alterations, additions and removals, among others, but the process of a Review is usually more thorough. A Review has to do with the complete overhaul of the Constitution which gives room for describing afresh the association's aims, objectives, goals and content of members...

    By Emmanuel Ajiboye The Faculty of The Social Sciences Students Association House of Representatives (FATSSSA FHR) has introduced a new, joint legislative structure to some of her sittings. This was evident at one of her plenaries which held on Friday 25 th day of November, at the Small Lectures’ Theatre. It was a joint session which involved Representatives across each of the four Departments’ associations from which FATSSSA draws its population. It appeared this initiative is to be sustained to become part of the culture of the faculty’s Students’ Association. According to the current Speaker of the FATSSSA FHR, Hon. Idoko Adoyi, “..part of the reasons why this Joint Session is holding is to create a Unified Legislative Culture in the Association, in order to address the pending need for coordination of the activities of each of the departments with those of the faculty and to strengthen the Unity among us..” Part of the invited attendees at the sitting was ...

    The man wore the skin of intolerable self-confidence. He stood at the podium to address the honourable members. Everyone present at the Sitting knew something was amiss in his conduct. He seemed to look down on everyone, the body gestures spoke volume. The man on the podium was to make a presentation and introduce members he has chosen for his committee. He had submitted a list untallied with the names of the members presented, but there are no punishments for these even though commonsense alarms an offense.   He would not even stand straight, if the Speaker had not commanded it. All the people to whom he spoke must be under him, he looked like a Chief Manager speaking to his assembled employees, whereas if reality had been well calculated, it ought to be the other way round. His face wore the skin of defiance, his pose reeks disregard to all rules.   But this ignoble Social Director isn’t alone. He was merely demonstrating the typical Executives’ culture i...

  By Aristotle   There was such a time, it is already passing before us, moving with such rapidity so that many would want to argue against such a time ever existing, and if it did, that it must be one of the fairy tales, not something we would identify in space. In that time “Japa-ism” was strictly street-lingo; it was the watchword and encouragement evangelism only for the urban riffraffs oozing from all the corners of our slums. We came to the classrooms to hear our   professors tell us   there is hope—that all is not lost. That we, the youth, represent a living hope for the future of this country, a hope we must be ready to fight for, promising us victory if we fight. Japa-ism was treated as a disease of the insufficiently schooled. Not that people were not Japa-ing but they were not evangelizing it. The Japa disease had not infected the educated classes at least. Now the story has changed. The syndrome has reached the classroom; it is the alterna...

  Members of the FATSSSA House of Representatives resolved at its last sitting that the inauguration of the Social Committee be postponed to the next sitting, until the Social Director incorporates the corrections proposed. One of the reasons for the rejection was due to lack of perfect correspondence between the names contained in the letter submitted earlier to the House, and the people fielded on the floor of the House as appointed members of the Committee. A notable case at this was the name of Mr. Braid of Geography 300L which the Social Director did not include in his list, but mentioned on lips as member of the Committee. One of the other reasons for the rejection of his proposition by the House was the lack of ability to satisfactorily defend the values and criteria for the selection of the proposed members of the Committee. The Social Director said they were selected on the basis that they have influence in the faculty and the fact that he has worked with them in t...