Ogbomoso Academics
Ogbomoso Academics, where Touching Lives is Our Priority! We are a collective group of Academic Staff from Nigeria's Tertiary Institutions, all with deep roots in Ogbomoso. Our mission is to drive educational development in Ogbomoso and beyond through strategic planning, establishment, and organization of educational institutions. At Ogbomoso Academics, we recognize the urgent need for a positive change in academics. Our primary objective is to ensure that educational opportunities are accessible to all, reaching every nook and cranny of Nigeria and beyond. We are dedicated to enlightening the global Ogbomoso community and fostering an educated society.
One of our core goals is to inspire the youth in our community to actively pursue knowledge and education, as they are the bedrock of a thriving and developing society. We strive to cultivate a sense of harmony among the educated, the less educated, and the vulnerable individuals within Ogbomosoland, as well as those residing in the diaspora. As champions of progress, we encourage and support developmental projects aimed at creating well-equipped educational institutions staffed by qualified personnel. Our vision is to build a community that is visible, friendly, peaceful, and transparent, with viable industrial potentials and resourceful individuals.
Integrity lies at the heart of our organization. We aspire to be the vanguards of truth, honesty, and integrity in every corner of Ogbomosoland, fostering unity amidst our diversity in class, religion, education, and residential areas. As you explore our website, you will discover the myriad ways in which Ogbomoso Academics aims to touch lives and make a lasting impact. Together, we can bring about positive change, uplift individuals, and contribute to the overall development of Ogbomosoland.
Join us on this transformative journey as we place educational development at the forefront of our endeavors. Together, let us shape a brighter future for Ogbomoso and beyond.
Empowering Education for Motivation, Harmony, Values, and Growth
Our vision is to empower education and create a brighter future driven by motivation, harmony, values, and growth. We believe in the transformative power of education to inspire individuals, foster community harmony, instill core values, and nurture personal and intellectual growth.
Motivation
Encouraging the youths in our community to seek knowledge and education.
Harmony
Seeking community and interpersonal harmony amidst the citizens of Ogbomosoland.
Values
Promoting truth, honesty and integrity in every community of Ogbomosoland.
Growth
Engaging in developmental projects for a better learning platform for the youth.
Fostering Educational Opportunities, Empowering Communities
We are driven by a diverse range of objectives that form the foundation of our work. Our initiatives are aimed at fostering educational opportunities, enlightening communities, empowering youth, promoting harmony, encouraging development, and upholding truth and integrity. Together, we strive to make a lasting impact on Ogbomosoland and beyond.
Enlightening Communities
To enlighten the larger Ogbomoso community worldwide, and ensure an educated community.
Empowering Youth
To encourage the youths in our community to seek knowledge and education which is the bedrock of any potentially developing society.
Fostering Educational Opportunities
To ensure educational opportunities are made available to its growing citizenry that abound throughout the nook and crannies of Nigeria and beyond.
Encouraging Development
To encourage developmental projects towards creation of well equipped with resourceful personnel, viable industrial potentials, visible, friendly, peaceful and transparent community.
Upholding Truth and Integrity
To be vanguard of truth, harmony, and integrity. We promote these values across Ogbomosoland, fostering unity amidst our diverse backgrounds in class, religion, education, and residences.
Promoting Harmony
To seek community and interpersonal harmony amongst the educated, the less educated, and the vulnerable ones within the ambit of Ogbomosoland, as well as those in the diaspora.
The Ogbomoso Academics, How It All Began
In the year 2019, a group of Academic Staff of Nigeria's Tertiary Institutions, and of Ogbomoso extraction, assembled in Ogbomoso town, to discuss the plight of tertiary education in Nigeria as it affects Ogbomoso indigenes worldwide.
We are aware of the difficulties some of our brilliant and promising young secondary school students go through, particularly here in Nigeria, whenever they seek admissions into other Nigerian public institutions, as a result of several governmental policies, such as catchment area, state of origin etc, enunciated as criteria for admissions into such institutions. Truly, Ladoke Akintola University is located within our metropolis, but it cannot duly accommodate all our aspiring students, even in the midst of the epileptic operations of that jointly-owned only tertiary institution in our town.
Needless to say, the incessant closure of that University not only adversely impacts the citizenry but also causes debilitating socio-economic hardships in our town. Suffice it to state that there are overwhelming gains of having a functional university located in a city and the benefits accompanying such in terms of commerce, enlightenment, job security as well as small- and large-scale industrial startups! Examples of such university-impacted cities abound worldwide, and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State University, Oshogbo, Bowen University, Iwo, Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, and Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru-Zaria, among others, are glaring examples, in the case of Nigeria.
Interestingly, Ile-Ife, Osogbo, Iwo, Ago-Iwoye, Samaru, were practically small cities, and would probably have remained so, but for the universities located in those towns. In spite of these examples, the sheer population of Ogbomoso, and its surrounding developing towns, no doubt calls for deep reflection. If Oyo town, with its population and landmass that are far below that of Ogbomoso, could have two Private Universities (Ajayi Crowther and Atiba Universities) within its enclave, what prevents Ogbomoso with its population, landmass, resources and peoples scattered worldwide, that far supersede Oyo in size and number, from running its own community-based university?
The above issues were discussed at length, by our members at several meetings called for this purpose on a one-to-one, virtual on WhatsApp platform, as well as very recently on zoom.
Membership from academia, university administrators such as Registry, Bursary, technical, retired personnel and serving in Nigeria's tertiary institutions at home and abroad, were involved in this worldwide discussion which gave birth to The Ogbomoso Academics, as we come together towards same goal and objectives to foster educational development in Ogbomoso, through planning, planting, and organization of educational institutions in Ogbomoso land and beyond.
Updated Achievements
The Ogbomoso Academics since its inception, our list of interested membership continue to grow. It is gratifying to note too, that the list of financial members also follow suit. Regularly, new financial members emerge.
The Association has held several meetings via video conferencing since we started and had discussed various issues bothering on university proposed site, proposed academic curriculum, partnership as well as means of sourcing funds for the proposed Ogbomoso University. As a result of the efforts of members of the executives, some funds have been raised, though not substantial. Membership dues along with some special donations form part of our account balances. It is proposed that the Association will do fundraising in the year 2022.
In our bid to locate suitable land for the proposed university, the Association has obtained partial gifts of land from Aipo, a town in Orire Local Government area, and another land with academic development and facilities on it, via the efforts of Senator Adeseun, who would want to partner with the Association. This facility is in Surulere local government area. Other facilities made available to us as a partial donation to us are at Jabata, and Oolo.
The facilities at Iresa Apa, and Iresa Adu, being made available by Senator Adeseun have been inspected, and are found suitable to serve as a take-off site for the proposed institution. Plans are underway to work out the modalities of agreement.
Finally, the Association is presently making efforts to obtain additional funds to ensure it takes on a Consultant able to plan a strategy for it to start the process of obtaining the necessary funds to procure the NUC application form necessary for the approval process for the proposed university. Of recent, the Association has opened an office in Ogbomoso at the premises of SQI College, besides LAUTECH, opposite YOACO petrol Station, Ogbomoso, to publicise and make known the Association in Ogbomoso, and its surroundings.
