BY BANYO TEMITAYO
THE management of Yaba College of Technology has asked all students to vacate the hostels, following the death of the institution’s Director of Academic Planning, M.A.O Omoighe.
Omoighe died from COVID-19 related complications, a statement by the Academic Board of Yabatech confirmed on Tuesday.
He was said to have died on Sunday, January 24, 2021, at an undisclosed hospital.
All lectures will now be delivered online, according to the institution, while students have been told to vacate the hostels, latest, Thursday, this week.
All members of staff in the Academic Planning Unit have also been directed to go on isolation for two weeks.
The statement read, “The Academic Board at the emergency meeting held Tuesday, January 26, 2021, approved the following measures: the College should revert to online teaching immediately.
“Lecturers are to provide lecture notes to students beforehand and use the online period to explain the lectures.
“Lecturers are to adopt acceptable modality for online lectures. The Centre for Information Technology and Management, CITM, and Flexible Skills Development, FSD, should work out improved modalities to enhance e-learning.”
It added, “Meeting of more than 10 persons should be conducted virtually. Students should vacate hostels latest by Thursday.
“Management will decontaminate the environment. Workers are to come to the office in alternate days.
“Academic Planning Unit to close down for two weeks for workers to go on self-isolation. The medical centre to also close down for two weeks.”
