The radio station which was a darling companion to ESUT community and indeed the entire Enugu State has been off-air since November 2019 following a fire incident that engulfed the former office at Independence Layout, Enugu.

These years of off-air indeed affected the information reach of the university community.

However, following the painstaking efforts by the current university management under the headship of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, who did not only expend millions of naira in renovating, restructuring, reequipping and restoring the station with its original frequency but also ensured and assured that the station would be back on air today and would be managed by the Department of Mass Communication.

He has kept to his promise that the station would be back on air before 20^th Convocation Ceremony day.

Fascinatingly, members of the ESUT Monitor team were at the station on Monday to supervise and keep it clean.

The team comprising five students and the three technologists in the department were thrilled over the new look the station acquired and are looking forward to it taking off today.

Speaking after the exercise, the leader of the team, Mrs Agbo Chioma thanked the Vice-Chancellor and his team as well as the HOD of Mass Communication for their efforts in restoring the station.

“I am excited, just like everyone of us here is. This is what we have been longing for. For five year now, the station has been off-air and you know what that means in terms of information sharing in the university.

“I want to specially thank the VC and his team for this record. I will also commend my HOD, Dr Chidi Ezinwa for his wonderful efforts. He is trailblazer. We have missed ESUT radio, no doubt,” she said.

ESUT Monitor Crew had a fill of the studio

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Members of the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT ESUT Chapter, have expressed appreciation to the management of the University for granting approval for its members to be promoted to Grade Level 14 in their careers.  

NAAT Chairman, Comrade Anthonia Onyia who disclosed this to ESUT, said the management’s gesture is a welcome development.

Although she regretted that the promotion would only take effect from 2025, the chairman appreciated the approval adding that the association is still in talks with the management to ensure that technologists in the university are allowed to reach grade level 15 as it’s obtained in other universities.

“I’m so happy that the day I approached our registrar, he told me that level 14 had been approved for technologists in ESUT.

“But then, it is not going to be effected or implemented in this ongoing appraisal exercise. He said it would come up from next year, that is 2025. But I’m still happy because it has been long that we are on that struggle.  But today, level 14 has been approved for NAAT,” she said.   

Describing technologists as the engineroom of every tertiary institution, Comrade Onyia stressed that the approval of the promotion to Grade Level 14 will spur her members to do more in ESUT.

“Technologists are the engineroom of not just the university but every tertiary institution in the world. They are at the core of academic excellence because they are in charge of all the piraticals in the university.

“The approval will of course motivate my members to work harder because it has been long we have been on that and there are many schools that are already on that level, schools that ESUT started before them. So now that we are among those schools that are enjoying it, my branch will be happy and we are grateful to the management.”

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