"The best Form of representation isn't entirely the one that solves problems, it's the one that predicts them before it happens"
- AROGS '26
Let's rise with IMPACT! ๐
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The true Aluta spirit is about service, sacrifice, and standing for the people. That spirit never dies.
The RiseWithIMPACT movement is here for the Great Ife Students, one built on welfare, proper advocacy & representation, and putting every student first.
Leadership that listens.
Leadership that delivers.
A great wave of IMPACT is coming into the Great Ife students community, and you need to be a part of it.
Great Ife Students,
IMPACT has a voice.
IMPACT is AROGS AND
AROGS IS COMING๐ฅ
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Happy New Month, Great Ife!
It's time to refocus and lock in๐ซต๐พ.
Welcome to a month filled with IMPACT๐ฅ
May this month be defined by success and progress โค๏ธ
This month, let's rise with IMPACT! ๐
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Eid Mubarak !
May Allah accept your sacrifice and prayers, and fill your homes with peace, joy, and barakah this Eid al-Adha. May this season bring you closer to loved ones and renew your heart with gratitude and hope.
From AROGS and the RISE WITH IMPACT movement, we wish you and your loved ones a blessed celebration.
ย Taqabalallahu Minna Wa Minkum!
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This man actually came to address NANS, school PRO that was here all through yesterday and didnโt at any point address their own students. Na to dey spill false information up and down.๐ญ
#saveOAU
Declares eviction from hostel in less than 24 hrs
Cuts off electricity
Cuts off water
Orders eviction before 7am in the morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, Nebuchadnezzar is back!
Anyone who does not bow to the image will be "immediately cast into a burning fiery furnace"
Daniel 3:6
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE FIRST LADY OF NIGERIA
Your Excellencies, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the First Lady @SenRemiTinubu, @officialABAT@NGRPresident,
I write to you with utmost respect and a deep sense of urgency as a concerned student of Obafemi Awolowo University to draw your attention to the pressing challenges currently affecting students and academic life within the institution.
Last year, the First Lady donated CNG buses and electric motorcycles to the university. The students welcomed this in good faith, believing it would improve transportation and reduce the existing challenges on campus.
However, after the commissioning of these buses, the school management removed the previous transport system, including motorcycles and the commercial buses that students relied on daily.
Over 35,000 students are now dependent on a limited number of CNG buses and a few tricycles. This has led to long queues every morning and evening, overcrowded buses where four students are forced into spaces meant for three, and delays that affect lectures and academic activities.
Students now spend more to move around. Routes that were once direct have been broken into multiple stages, forcing students to pay more for less convenience. The ticket system that was introduced has also failed to remain consistent, with students paying multiple tickets for single trips.
Movement within campus has become stressful. Areas that were once easily accessible are now difficult to reach. What used to be a simple daily routine has become a burden.
The students consulted. The students engaged.
When nothing changed, the students, through the Studentsโ Union, declared a 72-hour lecture boycott to push for solutions. Despite this, the management maintained that the situation was only a โteething phaseโ and insisted the system would stabilise.
The problems persisted.
Frustration continued to build.
Eventually, the students took to peaceful protest, coming out en masse to express their displeasure and demand change.
Now, instead of addressing these concerns, the students are being asked to vacate their hostels in the 5th week of the semester. This comes right after the protest, raising serious concerns about the timing and intention behind the decision.
Is this a response to student welfare or a move to disperse students and weaken their ability to organise?
This is a federal university. The students are citizens of this country. They deserve better.
Motorcycles are not a backward means of transportation. They are practical, flexible, and efficient, especially in a campus environment. Removing them without providing a truly effective alternative is not progress, it is regression.
The students are the largest stakeholders in this institution, yet their voices continue to be ignored.
We ask:
Are you aware of this situation?
Do you consider this acceptable?
And if not, what steps are you taking?
We call on the Federal Government and the Office of the First Lady to intervene and ensure that student welfare is not sacrificed.
The students are being oppressed and we ask you and the general public to come to our aid
#SaveOAUNow
#FixTheSystem
โ A concerned student
What is happening in our university is very disappointing and infuriating. Over 400 buses and 300 bikes were sent out overnight because they were considered โnot aesthetic enough.โ In their place? Just 50 buses and 30 tricycles donated by Her Excellency, the First Lady of the Federal Republic.
How do you replace a system that served tens of thousands with something that cannot even meet a fraction of the demand?
Over 10,000 students who already suffer from lack of accommodation are now forced to endure daily stress, delays, and exhaustion just to get to class. This is not reform o, this is unnecessary punishment.
And in the middle of a semester, students in Blocks 7 & 8 of Awolowo Hall are told to vacate for renovations, with no clear, humane alternative. Where are they supposed to go?
But here is what makes it even more painful and honestly very insulting. Students cried out, students protested peacefully, students demanded to be heard. Management called an emergency meetingโฆ not to solve the transport crisis, not to address welfare, not to fix the broken system, but to tell students to GO HOME. Go home? For what? For speaking up? For demanding basic living and learning conditions?
This is a university. A supposed citadel of intellectualism. And this is how students are treated? No urgency for things that matters or the concerns been placed on the tables. We have poor health facilities, Irregular lecture schedules, Broken learning environments! These arenโt enough grounds to call emergency meetings??? But sharp sharp, immediate action when students refuse to suffer quietly and decide to speak up.
And the school PRO, this is not even the time for polished statements and big grammar. This is not a press exercise. Students are not asking for vocabulary, we are asking for solutions. Every time real issues are raised, you respond with carefully constructed words that dodge the problem instead of addressing it. Enough. We donโt need explanations that sound good and are false, we need actions that actually work. โUnruly conductsโ???? Really??!! โEfforts to engage and appeal for calmโ, you?
Her Excellency Ma, we refuse to believe this was your intention. A donation meant to help students has been twisted by the management into a policy that has made life significantly harder for thousands. If you truly knew the reality on ground, would this still be acceptable? @KukoyiBusola
We are angry.โจWe are exhausted.โจWe are done being ignored.
Students are not decorations for the managements โaestheticโ goals on OAU campus.
โจWe are human beings trying to survive, learn and graduate.
#SaveOAU #NoToBadTransportSystem #NoToRenovationDuringTheSession
The new transport system introduced in OAU has caused severe queues at bus stops, overcrowding, and unnecessary stress for students and staff. Many of us now arrive late to lectures and miss important activities prompt intervention will be appreciated from the management
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ข: ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ข๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐
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It is not possible ๐ญ
I no dey go anywhere ๐ญ
OAU should return our town buses and bikes.32,00+ students and large number of staff, workers, market people and even secondary school students, to those number of buses is diabolical.
@GreatIfe_SU@TheGreatestIFE#Returnourbuses
OAU students are suffering. The 72-hour lecture boycott by the students' union yielded no results.
We had a very efficient transport system, and now we are forced by people who have their own private cars to enter CNG buses and motorcycles, which have proven to be very inefficient.
To meet up with 9 AM classes, you have to leave your hostel by 6 AM.
All motorcycles and commercial buses have been stopped.
This is my fourth year in this school, and I have never experienced this type of queue.
We are calling the attention of the public to the unnecessary plight OAU students have been subjected to.
Please retweet for a wider audience whether you are an OAU student or not. We never asked for CNG buses. It should help make life better and not difficult for us