The Dignity Consult, an independent organisation within the faculty of Business Administration at the University of Nigeria, Enugu campus has inducted its new members. It has bid farewell to its final year members at the university. The grand patron of the Consult, Apostle Peter Odoemena said the consult was aimed at producing “employable graduates” from the university.
According to Odoemena, who joined the Consult in 2010, “Whatever the consult is today was not what I met it when I came on board. I met students who were craving for success and at the same time, they were desiring to acquire skills. They didn’t want to stop with university degrees. So when they came to me, we decided to restructure the organisation. And we re-organised the whole structure and gave it a real sense of what it supposed to be,” the grand patron explained.
He said the consult was able to motivating the students to take professionalism very serious as wel as helping some of them to acquire skills that would help them become independent if the job is farfetched.
To achieve these, the consult embarked on so many seminars, workshops and intensive lectures, some of which led to the award of diplomas. “Products of the consult as you can see are entirely different breeds of graduates. They are employable and have entrepreneurial skills,” said Odoemana. He wished that theUniversiy of Nigeria (UNN) would completely take over the consult, just like the Yaba College of Technology did and took over the Dignity Consult there.
The president of the consult students, Miss Blessing Otomewo in her valedictory speech, said that the Dignity consult over the years, was committed to the course of improving and enhancing the academic excellence of members, adding that it had produced men and women of proven intelligence and character.
She gave a rundown of some of the achievements of some of their members with a claim that “none of any of members has had any case relating to examination malpractice or cases relating to secret cults or other social vices.”
But Otomewo added: “In the midst of these achievements, we had numerous challenges, of which the most pertinent is fund. The financial setback is a case in point which informed our wish to establish an Alumni Trust Fund where alumnus will contribute their quota every year to help the consult.
Over 80 new members were inducted at the occasion while certificates were presented to the graduands.