President Muhammadu Buhari on thursday aforementioned that Nigeria currently ranks among the leading democracies in continent and within the Commonwealth twenty years once it began to expertise uninterrupted democratic culture.
President Buhari was the traveler at the ultimate day of the fiftieth convocation ceremonies of the University of Lagos, that additionally served because the convocation for the 2017/2018 session.
The President was diagrammatic by the chief Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Rasheed Yakubu.
“With the 2019 general elections that had return and gone, we have a tendency to as a nation have another time reiterated our alternative of democracy because the system of presidency by that we hope to imbibe associate degree comprehensive development.
“Our administration is committed to making sure that the holiness of that alternative is preserved. With this policy enunciated and each programme instituted, we have a tendency to shall make sure that our democratic culture takes firmer roots and legacies additional consolidated.
“Let Pine Tree State tell that my administration won’t waver in its commitment to following group action, conserving the holiness of the rule of law, battling grand corruption, securing the lives and property of our individuals and rehabilitating or upgrading our important infrastructure.
“We can still be unrelenting in enthroning labor, honesty and place the welfare of our voters higher than everything else.
“We should all be part of hands to require Nigeria to the following level of progress,’’ President Buhari aforementioned.
According to him, his administration can still encourage Nigerian universities to make nearer and higher relationships with the economic sector.
He aforementioned this could facilitate to bridge the gap between theories and utility with a read to addressing a number of the foremost needed desires of the state.
He else that his administration believed within the imperative of sound academic system for national development.
“We recognise the place of our intellectuals to undertake innovative researches that may address the challenges of development and contribute to creating lives higher.
“We acknowledge that our advancement as a nation are driven by a sturdy human resource base.
“It should, therefore, be our collective determination to try to to our greatest to ensure a peaceful and stable future for Nigerians through education.
“We shall still interface with the unions of universities in our bid to making sure that we’ve a stable educational activity sector that contributes to the nation’s international fight,’’ he said.
While congratulating the graduating students, President Buhari charged them to form their impacts felt in matters of national development.
“As you create your ways in which into the globe on the far side this cognitive state, let Pine Tree State assure you of our administration’s commitment to making sure that the talents and data you have got noninheritable are place to use and be fruitfully engaged.
“While several of you’ll be gainfully used within the public and personal sectors, a number of you will favor to explore the entrepreneurial route by creation and co-founding little and medium scale businesses.
“In a special method, the data and competences you have got developed within the course of feat Nigeria’s degrees, diplomas and certificates are to be applied to the noble course of national development,’’ he said.
Earlier, Chancellor of the university and also the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar El-kanemi, aforementioned that the tertiary education sector normally and also the university system specifically would relish revived attention with the discharge of the graduands.
“Having aforementioned this, i have to say that it’s necessary for USA to place in situ, additional support for policies, programmes and finances to stay the ivory towers at par with their counterparts globally.
“Many globally famous feats by our schools and students build a case for my charm,’ he said.
Giving an opening down, the Vice-Chancellor of the establishment, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, aforementioned that five,405 postgraduate degrees consisting of a hundred and fifty pH.D holders, 4,771 Masters and 484 postgraduate diplomas would be awarded in varied disciplines.
The wire service of Nigeria reports that four eminent personalities were given with retired place and unearned degrees in recognition of their roles in developing the country.
The unearned doctor’s degree awardees included: adult male. Jim Ovia, bourgeois and founder, celestial point Bank Plc; adult male. Lateef Okunnu; and Dr. Daniel Olukoya, the final supervisor of the Mountain of fireplace and Miracles Ministries worldwide.
In their acceptance speeches, Ovia stressed the necessity for the non-public sector to hitch hands with the central within the funding of education in the country.
He, however, concerned the licensing of additional non-public universities so as to reinforce the educational normal of the country.
Olukoya in his speech, stressed the necessity to encourage the event of country’s youths on the way to be autonomous once college.
He additionally aforementioned that there was the necessity for the central to institute a obligatory course in universities on life once college.
Olukoya aforementioned the course ought to include integrity, hard work, honesty and relationship.
“If students fail the course, they must not be allowed to graduate,’’ he said.
