President Muhammadu Buhari has
advised Nigerian youths to stay and advance the cause of their motherland.
The president, who was
represented by Suleiman Raman-Yusuf, the deputy executive secretary of National
Universities Commission (NUC), was speaking during the 44th convocation
ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife on Saturday.
“It is high time that
universities took more proactive roles in ensuring that graduands perform more
meaningfully in the world of works,” he said.
“It is in view of this that we
wish to exhort our youths to start looking inwards, stay and advance the cause
of their motherland. We have no other country than Nigeria. We should remain
here to salvage the country together.”
Buhari said the future of Nigeria
lies in the mode and quality of education provided to the citizenry adding that
the government needs support with funding education.
He, therefore, tasked
universities on the need for them to increase their internally generated
revenue (IGR) to enhance sustainable education.
In his remarks, Eyitope
Ogunbodede, the university’s vice-chancellor, announced that the university is
currently reviewing the curricular of all academic programmes, in line with
current developments and standards.
Ogunbodede added that emphasis
was being placed on training job creators and not mere job seekers.
He informed the gathering that
the university would no longer be dependent on the national grid, as it would
soon generate its own electricity.
NAN reports that event witnessed
the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees on some personalities including
Ibukun Awosika, chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc. and Benedict Oramah,
president of African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK).
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