...IDP, Emos Ishaku benefits!
From our news desk, Benin
12 first class graduates of the Edo State University, Uzairue have been offered automatic employment by the Governor Godwin Obaseki's administration.
Obaseki who disclosed this during the 5th Convocation of the University, said the beneficiaries include an Internally Displaced Person at the Edo IDP camp, Emos Ishaku.
"You have the story of automatic job of Ishaku Emos who have automatic job on Monday. He is not from Edo but because of what he has done. The spirit of hard work and resilient which he has demonstrated, he would be given the job in Edo State civil service.
"As you know, those of you who graduate with first class degrees you have automatic offer in the Edo State civil service job.
"I had a session with 40 of our graduate trainees and I am pleased to tell you that about three who graduated last year, are part of it."
Asserting that he was committed to the development of the University, he said "the Institution is celebrating; We are also celebrating another mile stone as it is graduating nine Ph.D students from the University.
"We will continue to endow this University as we have dreamt of it from the beginning. In next year's budget we are going to include the amount of money to make sure that we finish the infrastructure in medical science and the completion of the teaching hospital.
"I have also instructed that our current deployment of high speed fibre optic be extended to this school in order to support the efforts the Institution has made to facilitate learning."
Also speaking, the Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, said within the University's seven years of existence, it has set some records for the older Universities to emulate.
"It is on record today that Edo State University, Uzairue is the first in Africa to have acquired some of the hi-tech equipment for the training of her medical students.
"These include the Anatomage Table, a medical tool that allows for the real time display of human anatomy, and the SimMan 3G Mannequins in our Advanced Skills Laboratory.
"In addition to these equipment that allow our medical students to have hands-on medical experience in the course of their training, we also have Edo State University Teaching Hospital in Auchi."
"It was the timely intervention in this direction, which repositioned us to earn full accreditation for our medical programmes from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN)."
According to him, the University was the first in the Sub-Saharan African region to acquire the CANVAS Learning digital teaching and learning environment for the teachers and students.
"Edo State University, Uzairue was ranked by the National Universities Commission (NUC) as the 10th best University in Nigeria, 2nd best State University in Nigeria and best University in the South-south region of Nigeria in 2022," Prof. Aluyor asserts.
The Pro Chancellor of the University, Professor Emeritus, Thomas Okpo Audu also commended the State governor, Godwin Obaseki for creating the enabling environment and an uninterrupted academic calendar for over five years and currently convoking its fifth set of graduates.
He charged the graduands to be courageous, and be agents of positive change as the world needs their innovative ideas, leadership skills and determination to make a difference.
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