The Founder and Chancellor of the Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, Chief Kola Daisi, has aforesaid African nation is presently in desperate would like of innovative leaders, who would come back up with ideas to show round the things within the country.
Daisi, who is that the Basorun of Ibadan, said this in his address at the second convocation of the KDU in Ibadan.
The nonagenarian tasked the graduates of the university to travel and impact huge changes in their varied fields, spoken language the world was looking ahead to their exploits. He supplemental that the key mission of the university was to nurture quality graduates with high employability attributes and competencies.
He said, “I admonish you all to travel out there and be smart ambassadors of this university. Aside your learning, your character ought to be impeccable, showcasing the standard of coaching you've got imbibed throughout your sojourn here.
“The importance of quality graduates can't be overemphasized, above all in a very time like this once the state is in dire would like of innovative leaders. it's our hope that you simply can all be worthy ambassadors of Kola Daisi University, who will quit there to try to to nice exploits in your varied fields.
“You are to be downside solvers, finding solutions to challenges in your areas of interest. i'm positive you've got been adequately equipped for this.”
The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of KDU Governing Council, mister Remi Babalola, charged the graduates of the varsity to be smart ambassadors of the KDU and to be problem solvers.
Babalola, who may be a former minister of state for finance, tasked the graduates to challenge impunity, recklessness, lawlessness and to pursue good anyplace they found themselves.
Babalola said, “You haven't any excuses and you've got everything you wish to alter your world. Rest assured, the clouds can break. Have some patience, interact in delayed gratification. Place substance over appearance, character over power and prestige.
“The world is presently facing elementary challenges and African nation particularly is undergoing uncommon self-inflicted existential issues; these demand higher levels of determination, spirit and self-belief to be a price creator.”
The administrator of the university, Prof. Adeniyi Olatunbosun, in his address aforesaid KDU created ninety two graduates out of that thirteen graduated with firstclass degrees.
He lauded people who given cash to the university and urged others to emulate them to push education within the country.
“It can interest you to notice that one amongst the comes of those graduating students was the process of paper from cassava peels, this goes to indicate that our youths have the potential to contribute vastly to nation building given the correct environment,” he added.
The immediate past administrator of University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, who was the convocation lecturer aforesaid public universities alone couldn't watch out of the demand of swarming youths to access tertiary education within the country.
He noted that the perception of personal universities in the country had modified particularly with the unstable educational calendar publicallyly varsities.
He said several lecturers in public universities were currently causing their youngsters to non-public varsities as a result of their stable academic calendar, whereas advocating inclusion of private universities.
He said, “The dialogue on whether or not private universities ought to take pleasure in funding support from the Tertiary Education monetary fund (TETFund) is however to be decided. Our humble position is that the private universities should incline chance to access analysis funds from TETFund since at the top of the day university education is each a public and a personal good. “
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