{"id":3898,"date":"2022-08-16T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:59:15","slug":"brief-history-of-federal-polytechnic-offa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/brief-history-of-federal-polytechnic-offa\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of Federal Polytechnic Offa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Polytechnic came out of gestation via a presidential announcement made during a courtesy call on His Royal Highness, Olofa of Offa, late Oba Mustapha Olawoore Olanipekun Ariwajoye II, by the then Military President, Gen. 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Adesola Oyeladun<br>Oyemade was inaugurated alongside councils of other Tertiary institutions in<br>year <strong><em>2000. <\/em><\/strong>The second Governing Council, headed by Mr. Dogara Igube, came on<br>board in <strong><em>2005<\/em><\/strong> while the third Governing Council headed by late Senator (Engr.)<br>Onyeka Okoroafor, was constituted in <strong><em>2009<\/em><\/strong>. The fourth Governing Council, led by<br>Chief Okey Ezenwa, was inaugurated in <strong><em>2013 <\/em><\/strong>while the fifth Governing Council<br>under the leadership of Chief Oseloka Zikora was inaugurated along with other<br>Federal Polytechnics in <em><strong>2017.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first batches of three hundred and sixty (360) students were admitted into<br>the six programmes viz;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I. Financial Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>II. Business Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>III. Secretarial Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IV. Science Laboratory Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V. 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Computer Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this humble beginning, the Polytechnic has developed to its present<br>enviable status with<strong><em> 21 courses offered at National Diploma (ND) level, 23 at<br>Higher National Diploma (HND) level and Pre-ND programmes in Arts and Science.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polytechnic was recently ranked <em><strong>8th position<\/strong><\/em> in the latest pilot ranking<br>and assessment of <strong><em>112<\/em><\/strong> Federal, State and Private polytechnics in Nigeria by the<br>National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: portal.fpo.edu.ng<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#EduSAVINGS#EduLOANS#EduSURE#INTERNSHIP#SCHOLARSHIP#EduHEALTHMAINTAINANCE#ENTERPRENUERSHIP#PressPayNg#TERTIARY#EDUCATION#TUITION#FEES#UNIVERSITY#POLYTECHNIC#MONOTECHNIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polytechnic came out of gestation via a presidential announcement made during a courtesy call on His Royal Highness, Olofa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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