…As KWASU Graduates 6,374 Students, 71 First Class.
The Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, has lauded the unprecedented interventions of TETFUND in institutions of higher learning across Nigeria, adding that, scrapping it would be too disastrous for the education sector.
The Vice Chancellor stated this while addressing journalists on the activities lined up for the 12th convocation ceremony of KWASU on Tuesday Malete.
According to Prof. Jimoh, KWASU had benefited immensely from the various intervention projects of TETFUND, noting that the agency had greatly enhanced the infrastructural development of his institution.
He added: “The TETFUND has been a huge blessing not only to the federal institutions but also a ray of hope for state-owned institutions.”
The VC also commended the Kwara State Government for committing sufficient funds towards the completion of the Osi and Ilesha-Baruba campuses of the University, adding that the campuses have lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories, and offices, among other amenities, that would ensure that the campuses are fully functional.
He disclosed that the institution
is set to turn out a total of 6,374 graduates at the convocation ceremony slated for Saturday, adding that 71 of the students came out with First Class. He added that 1,828 bagged Second Class Upper Division, 3,501 had Second Class Lower Division, while 974 got Third Class in the 2023/2024 academic session.
The Vice Chancellor also said that a total of 6,891 graduated with postgraduate degrees for 2023/2024 academic session, adding that 49 bagged PhD, while 468 had Masters degrees.
On accommodation, he said the management planned to tackle the accommodation challenge among its students by building more hostel facilities inside the university campus, adding that the transportation challenge had remained because many students live outside the campus.
“We have recently completed a l04-bedspace hostel and the Chairman of KWASU’s Governing Council, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, OON, will commission the building this Thursday. KWASU has also partnered with investors to realise the Students’ Smart City hostel project which will deliver 25,000 bed spaces in the first phase.
Currently, work is ongoing to deliver at first, 8,700 bed spaces within the next few months.
“As a university desirous of producing total graduates, one of our goals is to secure more accommodation facilities on the campus for our students. This is one way we can ensure our student have access to all round university culture.
The inadequate on-campus hostel facility was another of the challenges listed last year, but we have explored private partnership to solve this. We hope more private organisations will partner with us to drive the research and infrastructure components of this great institution”, he said.
Professor Jimoh said that the University has been in the news for her strides in the electric vehicle conversion and, lately, the hybrid CNG conversion.
He said: “As an entrepreneurial and community development university that also advocates sustainable environments, KWASU considers these achievements as contributing to cleaner environments for all, with the added benefit of boosting the economic growth of the institution and society in general.”
He reiterated that the management of the institution would not condone indiscipline and internet frauds among its students, saying that any students found in such untoward behaviour had always been shown the way out of the institution.
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