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  • Sokoto graduates special marshals

    Sokoto graduates special marshals

    It had the trappings of a military parade. Some 2,200 youths filed past in a well-coordinated march. Taking the salute was Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wammako.

    It was the graduation day of the state’s special marshals who would help manage vehicular traffic, ensure public order and keep the state tidy. It was a well-thought-out plan to fight unemployment as well as help other existing personnel in public duties.

    The people watched and cheered as the youths savoured their day.

    The Wamakko administration said the establishment of the Sokoto Corp Marshals was part of its pledge to create employment for the state youths. The training was financed with the state’s share of funds from the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

    The Marshals are under the watchful eye of a retired Commissioner of Police, Sa’idu Madawaki. For seven weeks, the youths, drawn from the 23 local local government areas of the state, underwent intensive training in paramilitary exercises before being posted to their duty post after being paid some stipends.

    The Nation was informed that the Marshals will help in security duties. Five hundred of them have been deployed to strategic locations within the state capital while others have been posted to other local government areas. They have also been placed on a money salaries in accordance with the regulations in the state civil service.

    Investigations revealed that those in the state capital have already begun working in the areas of their posting within the metropolis such as roundabouts, junctions, public places such as markets and related areas where traffic congestion and activities are high for control and orderliness. It was also discovered that this measure is already paying off as activities of motorists and other road users who are always in the habit of violating traffic laws have being reduced to the barest minimum.

    In the past, road users especially commercial tricycles were in the habit of violating traffic laws. But since the since the introduction of the marshals, activities of such groups have reduced. Their presence at public events for crowd control and maintaining orderliness in recent times has been commended by residence of the state. A commercial car driver, Malam Almu Dan Ige told The Nation that the people of the state need to cooperate with Marshals in the discharge of their duties. He said, “As you can see, the traffic is under control with the coming of these corps marshals. They are now everywhere in town and we are seeing their positive impact. Their coming has reduced some risks on the roads and install some level of sanity at public places. They are working side by side with the traffic wardens and the lights are functioning too to avoid accidents and disobedience of traffic laws. We need to cooperate with them”.

    He said that the creation of the Marshals has also helped in checking social adversity and redundancy among a significant number youths in the state. They have been equipped with patrol vehicles to monitor and control as well as check excesses of road users, public attitude to discipline and environmental sanity.

     

  • Graduates must be ready to work

    Our goals can be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no route to success. – Stephen Brennan.

    The growing unemployment in the country has, no doubt, influenced the curriculum of education in Nigeria. This has resulted in the review of secondary schools curriculum and inclusion of entrepreneurial skills in the curricula of tertiary institutions. The essence of the curriculum review is to equip the students with entrepreneurial knowledge that will make them self-employed and employers of labour. The review and inclusion seems not to be an ending solution to unemployment crisis in the country.

    It is worthy to state that unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 23.90 percent in 2011 from 21.10 percent in 2010. The average unemployment rate in Nigeria stood at 14.60 percent from 2006 until it reached an all-time high of 23.90 percent in 2011 and a record low of 5.30 percent in 2006.

    The attitude of final year students of the University of Ibadan at the career sensitization seminar call for sober reflection as less than three hundred students of the institution participated in the exercise. The programme was organized by the Student Affairs Division of the institution with Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic as the Chairman of Career Board.

    Despite massive publicity for the programme which was placed on the University’s website, faculties’ notice boards and other strategic places on campus, students in their lackadaisical attitude still ignored the call to groom them for better opportunities in the labour market.

    Securing employment has gone beyond academic excellence. This is because the influx of graduates into the labour market is high compare to job available for the entire sector. It is therefore imperative for graduate to get acquainted with necessary skills expected of him while preparing to take up a job.

    It is not an overstatement to state that becoming rich is a matter of mind and decision. As such the lamentation of graduates of higher institution will continue to soar high if the minds of students that are graduating from ivory towers are not refined and nurtured towards taking entrepreneurial skills and know the qualities employers expected them to possess.

    Albeit, no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new doorway for economic prosperity. It is a matter of fact for students to make themselves available for goals setting and enriching programme.

    In the age of industrialization, roads, railways and power were considered as basic infrastructure. In the 21st century, information is the basic infrastructure that must be available to every citizen.  The problem with the current generation is the low Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy among students and lecturers. It took seven years for internet to receive appreciable acceptance while it took forty six years for electricity and sixty six years for airplane to be accepted globally.

    For centuries, universities have been described as a place where higher knowledge and skills have been developed, refined and nurtured. One of the lessons from this career sensitization seminar is that management on their part should mandate the exercise on all final year students of the institution to attend. This will go a long way to arming graduates of the institution with requisite tools for career success. Other tertiary institutions can key into the campaign towards making Nigerian graduates employable, thereby reducing unemployment in the country.

    With total number of final year students hovering around two hundred and fifty that attended the programme cut across one hundred and twenty departments, this represents less than 15% of total graduates the university produces annually. This calls for students to be more proactive and ready to utilise every opportunity that comes their way that will assist them to fit into the society.

    This is a clarion call on all graduating students to make the best use of opportunity availed them by their institution to harness their entrepreneurial potentials and contribute to societal growth as the world of work is different from world of the classroom.

     

    Hammed, 400-Level Educational Management, UI

     

  • Finance ministry trains graduates

    THE Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) organised three days’ training for interns and firms representatives under the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

    Opening the session in Enugu, the Senior Consultant, Fittman Consults, Abuja, Mr. Augustine Bolu said it has become imperative for the interns under the GIS to be trained on life after internship, exit strategies and entrepreneurship.  Bolu noted that government should be commended for the recognition it gave the private sector as the major employer of labour, which according to him requires certain minimum skills from graduates in order to employ them.

    GIS was introduced as part of the SURE-P for graduates to be placed in interested and demonstrated viable firms/organisations where they would be mentored and supported to develop or strengthen core skills with potential to enhance their employability. The graduates at the training were trained on personal branding, financial literacy skills, skills for the work place, work ethics and etiquette, business leadership, performance and others.

    The objectives of the training, among others, were to enable the interns optimise the period by developing useful skills and positive work habits, expose them to opportunities for life after internship, and provide opportunity to share experiences with other participants, including firm representatives on opportunities and challenges in the workplace.

    Bolu berated the educational curriculum in the nation’s higher institutions which does not provide for the development of the need for the work place skills which accounts substantially for why large number of graduates do not get employed.

    that though the training was targeted at interns, “we believe that a shared vision with our partners would enhance the benefit the scheme provides not only for the interns but also for the firms especially the SMEs. For the firm representatives, this training provides windows for staff assessment, official etiquette, staff management/development through structured mentorship and other critical lines, which are necessary for the growth of nay firm. He therefore challenged the trainees to take full advantage of the training and be the change agents in their various organisations.

  • Lack of soft skills causes of graduates’ unemployment’

    LACK of soft skills among graduates is responsible for the massive unemployment  in the country, the Chief Executive Officer of J. Soji-George and Co., a management consultant firm, Dr Soji George, has said.

    He said his meeting with job seekers at interviews showed that many graduates were not employable because they lacked the soft skills  needed at job interviews.

    George, a former lecturer at Greenish Ways University in the United Kingdom (UK) and a senior lecturer at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), spoke at a seminar by the firm for unemployed graduates held at the Nigerian Medical Institute in Yaba, Lagos. The event was sponsored by SEPLAT Oil Development Company.

    He said: “Graduates have skills in certificate but do not know how to dress to job interviews and what to say. They do not know how to present themselves at the interviews session neither do they know how to write curriculum vitae.”

    He said the firm had conducted interview for multinational companies and discovered that many graduates did not have the soft skills, which employers wanted. He said the seminar was held to train graduates in the skill that would improve their employment chances.

    He added: “The aim of J. Soji-George and Co. Management Consultant is to teach the participants how to be employable by developing their soft skills. We teach them how to write curriculum vitae, help them to edit it, send it back to them and groom them for job interviews.

    “This seminar is to tell the government that the problem is not unemployment but lack of employability skills on the part of the graduates. If this must stop, higher institutions would have to upgrade their curricula to include teaching students on soft skills.”

    Dr Oluwakemi Owoyemi, one of the facilitators, spoke on dressing and presentation at interviews. She said potential interviewees should always be conservative in dressing by wearing dark coloured clothes and prepare mentally for the exercise.

    She said: “Ladies should use moderate make up, jewelry and avoid unnecessary piercing. Their skirts must be below the knee and they should avoid high heels. Men should avoid dreadlocks, beard and ensure that they keep the hair well combed.”

    She advised the graduates to eat before they go for interviews and ensure they have a fresh breath.

    Prof Kayode Oguntuase, a psychologist at the School of Management Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), told the participants to improve on their knowledge and live fruitful lives.

    Dr Tayo Otubanjo, a senior lecturer at Lagos Business School, urged the participants to engage in personal branding to increase their chances at interviews.

  • Mimiko promises first class graduates jobs

    Twenty-six First Class graduates of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State have been offered employment by the state government if they wish to work in the civil service.

    Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko made the offer during the university’s fifth convocation last Friday at the multi-purpose hall.

    Mimiko lauded the university’s policy of retaining its best brains and promised to support it in this regard.

    “I understand that the policy of the university of retaining the best among the graduands is still in place, so that they could add value to the university and have opportunity to pursue higher degrees under the sponsorship of the university.

    “I want to assure you that this administration will continue to give its full support to this laudable initiative. In the event there is any of you who made a First Class and is desirous of working in the Ondo State Service, such a candidate will be given automatic employment,” he said.

    Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Femi Mimiko, whose five-year tenure ends in January, said the initiative of retaining the best was expanded under his watch.

    He said over 50 of the university’s best graduates who have been absorbed into its workforce are also continuing their studies in both local and foreign universities.

    “The Graduate Fellowship scheme, which we inherited, was rejuvenated and expanded in scope. Now, it is almost certain that if you make a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.00 and above, you are most likely to be offered a place in your department as a Graduate Assistant. The university pays your way through a Master’s degree programme and PhD, within or outside Nigeria. As I speak to you, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, we have close to 50 of these young men and women, trainee academics, all over the world on this mission,” he said.

    Being the last convocation that Prof Mimiko would preside over as vice-chancellor, it was an opportunity for him to present his scorecard.  In his 20-page address, Mimiko said the university succeeded in sanitising the admissions and examination/assessment processes, introducing new programmes and training workers.

    “We started off by consciously and deliberately instituting a merit-driven admission policy.  We overhauled all our academic programmes, making them more relevant and useful to our publics. We liberally funded training programmes for our lecturers and staff at all levels to hone their capacity; expanded facilities available for teaching and research; placed our examination and assessment processes on a much more transparent platform; and emphasised the rights and privileges of students while not neglecting their duty. In all regards, we mainstreamed quality assurance,” he said among other achievements.

    The vice-chancellor also thanked the governor, who is also his brother, for his support for the university, notably allowing the institution to run without pressure.

    He said: “By support, I do not just mean support in funding terms, but perhaps more importantly, we thank Mr. Governor for his distinctive and robust understanding of the nuances of university culture and for acknowledging the differentiation between a university and other government agencies, the MDAs. It would shock you, that not once in my five years did Governor Mimiko send any single name to me for consideration for admission.”

    At the two-day convocation, 6, 341 graduands from the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 sets received First Degrees, while 412 earned Postgraduate Diplomas, and Higher Degrees.

    Of the 6, 341, 26 bagged First Class Degrees, 1,414 were in the Second Class Upper Division; 3,505 got Second Class Lower Division; 993 earned Third Class and 54 graduated in the Pass category.

    Two dignitaries, Oba Victor Adesimbo Kiladejo, Jillo III, the Osemawe of Ondo Kingdom; and Chief Samuel Olu Falae, the Olu of Ilu-Abo, were conferred with Honorary Doctorate Degrees of the university.

    The convocation coincided with the 15th founder’s day celebration of the university.

    In his speech, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Ambassador Oladele Akadiri, said the newly-inaugurated Council would consolidate on the achievements of the university since inception, especially in the past five years.

    “Let us all put in our best at all times to achieve the vision and mission of the university. We should cooperate and work together in order to sustain the current tempo of development the university has witnessed in recent years,” he said.

    He congratulated the graduands and their parents on their achievements and encouraged them to be good ambassadors of the university.

    Cash prizes ranging from N10, 000 to N100, 000 were presented to the outstanding graduands.

  • Empowerment of graduates: A necessity

    As the level of unemployment increases, the number of graduates seeking jobs in the labour market had been growing over the years. Many Nigerians attribute the challenges to lack of empowerment programmes by governments.

    Findings reveal that unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 23.90 per cent in 2011 from 21.10 per cent in 2010. Unemployment rate in Nigeria averaged 14.60 per cent in 2006 until 2011, reaching an all-time high of 23.90. According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), no fewer than 5.3 million youths are jobless in the country, while 1.8 million graduates enter the labour market every year.

    The nation is faced with these challenges, in spite of its endowment in natural and human resources. Nigeria is among the largest oil producing countries in the world. Ironically, it is one of the poorest countries in terms of standard of living. World Bank statistics, last year, put the number of Nigerians living in destitution at 100 million, while its latest report puts Nigeria among the five poorest counties in the world. In terms of underdevelopment, Nigeria is among countries of world topping the statistics of the world’s underdeveloped countries.

    Given the challenges pose by unemployment, poverty and hunger, Nigeria is still battling with other man-made calamities, such as political instability, insecurity and lack of functional institutions to enhance democracy.

    Our politics has become a “do-or-die” affair. The quest for power has resulted in violent changes. Today, unemployed graduates have become tools of violence, hired and used by politicians to launch attacks on their opponents. Criminal activities are increasing daily across regions. Kidnapping, senseless killings and suicide bombings have become the order of the day. Unfortunately, jobless youths and unemployed graduates are key players in these criminal acts.

    Our leaders need to engage the youth in productive ventures to have a decent and secured society. Entrepreneurship programmes and skills development courses have been introduced into the curriculum of the tertiary institutions. These programmes are aimed at making the youth productive and become partners in development. However, like the cases of many government initiatives, the entrepreneurship programmes are faced with challenges.

    Students are only thought the theoretical aspects of the entrepreneurship studies and left without the capabilities of putting what they are taught into practice. In a nutshell, there is inadequate practical equipment to train students in vocations.

    The efforts by Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), established by the Federal Government under the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) in 1973 to assist in solving problems of lack of adequate practical skills for the employment of students, have yielded minimal or no results over the years.

    It is pertinent at this juncture to state clearly, that the task of producing well-grounded graduates is not dependent on lecturers only, government also have a role to play in this regard. Today, teachers at all levels are blamed for production of incompetent graduates. Rationally, governments are to provide the needed facilities, while teacher impact the knowledge and skills.

    Lack of conducive teaching and learning environments and inadequate research are among the challenges facing our education. In public institutions, laboratories are not well-equipped or are practically non-existent. For example, universities and polytechnics offer computer science courses without computer laboratories, let alone internet connectivity. Libraries have become stores for archaic materials. Hence, the poor quality of graduates is caused by shortage of learning resources and obsolete facilities.

    Aside the provision of adequate research and practical resources for the acquisition of knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship, there is the need for the empowerment of students both materially and financially; this will enable them to be self-reliant. The worsening unemployment crisis is partly a reflection of government’s inability to design policies that will create more jobs, or provide enabling environments that could encourage graduates to be self-employed.

    Over the years, strategies which do not seem to be helping the situation have been put in place by government through the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), the Subsidy Re-investment Programme (SURE-P), Graduates Internship Scheme (GIS), with supports from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), among others. Vocational trainings and skills acquisition programmes have been organised and are still ongoing by these bodies to empower youths and unemployed graduates in different areas with the aim of alleviating the unemployment crisis.

    Yet, these programmes faced the same challenges. At the skills acquisition or training centers, challenges of unqualified or incompetent teachers and insufficient practical instruments are fast becoming rampant.

    As remedies to the growing crisis of unemployment, poverty and rise in crime rate, it is necessary for government to empower students while studying and after graduation. This can be achieved through the provision of sufficient research and practical resources in schools.

    Government should also introduce entrepreneurship courses and programmes in schools right from the elementary stages to advanced levels. Education is a prerequisite for any nation striving at development. The impact of education to national growth and development are immeasurable.

    Empowering a graduate does not necessarily means giving such person money. The best way to empower an educated person is to encourage him in diverse ways, especially by means of training.

    If government can strengthen its agencies and other empowerment programmes and initiatives to effectively train graduates in different vocational and technical skills, the crisis of unemployment will surely come to be a thing of the past in Nigeria. Therefore, the task of empowering graduates is a necessary to change the social rhythm and create a rewarding future for every youth.

     

    Ahmad, 400-Level Mass Comm., NSUK

     

  • UNILORIN produces 48 First Class graduates

    UNILORIN produces 48 First Class graduates

    Forty-eight graduates of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) will be awarded First Class degree certificates at the 30th Convocation on October 30.

    In a statement, the institution’s Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, said 5,421 students would receive first degree certificates in various disciplines.

    One thousand, one hundred and ninety (1,190) are graduating with Second Class Upper; 2,814 with Second Class Lower; 1,068 with Third Class and 84 with pass.

    Eighteen Diploma graduates, 642 Master graduands, 106 Ph.D graduates and 142 Postgraduate Diploma graduands will also receive their certificates.

  • Stop exploiting graduates, Muslim Society tells NYSC

    Stop exploiting graduates, Muslim Society tells NYSC

    Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Lagos State Area Unit, has accused the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of exploiting graduates by charging them N4,000 for printing of call-up letters.

    Graduates that are being mobilised for the next batch of the National Youth Service are paying the money as requirement to get their postings.

    While hailing the NYSC for introducing online registration, they said asking graduates to pay amount before mobilisation indicated that the government was no longer interested in sponsoring education.

    The MSSN Amir (president), Kaamil Kalejaiye, urged NYSC not to become a profit-making body. He advised the directorate to look for other means of generating revenue rather than placing the burden on graduates.

    He said: “This is another open betrayal from our government. Why should someone who wants to go and serve his fatherland pay so much for a journey he is forced to go? Where do they expect a student who suffered and managed to graduate from the decaying system get such money? NYSC must realise that having finished a degree course does not mean that you have a job. So, where do they want the thousands of jobless Nigerian students to get N4, 000?

    “Another thing that bothers our mind is how the NYSC came about the N4,000 charges. Is it for maintenance of the website or administrative task that has earlier been catered for? What does NYSC want to use N4,000 from the over 10,000 corps members do? Since the Federal Government is sponsoring the programme, there is no need for this. Government should be alive to its responsibility. The money is unjustifiable.”

    Kalejaiye urged probe into the activities of the NYSC, saying attempts to monetise the scheme must be rejected by everybody. He also described as annoying the justification made by the NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs Olubunmi Aderibigbe, who said online registration was optional.

    Kalejaiye said: “We expect anti-corruption agencies would swing into action by probing the activities of NYSC. This is a clear signal that corruption looms in the horizon of NYSC. How the website contract was given, how much it cost and what it takes to maintain it must be made open. NYSC is not a profit-making body. We urge Nigerian lawmakers and stakeholders to check the activities of the NYSC to avoid exploitation like we had during the ill-conceived Nigerian Immigration Service employment.”

    MSSN urged the directorate to stop victimisation of Muslim female corps members, saying: “The constitution guarantees their freedom to practise their religion anywhere and anytime.”

  • Hope rises for AOCOED graduates

    The induction of 59 graduates of Early Childhood Education of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) Otto/Ijanikin into notable professional bodies, and their merging with the Lagos State Universal Basic Education may have opened window of opportunities for them.

    They were inducted into the Early Childhood Association of Nigeria (ECAN) and the Association for Childhood Education Practitioners (ACEP).

    In attendance were ECAN’s Founder and National President,  Prof. Ajike Osanyin of the University of Lagos (UNILAG),  and ASEP National President,  Hajia Olaitan Oshodi represented by its Lagos State chapter Chairman, Simeon Fowowe.  AOCOED Provost, Mr. Wasiu Olalekan Bashorun , was represented by his deputy, Wole Ajose and the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Gbolahan Daodu.

    Oshodi said the event was packaged as a platform to showcase the college products to  SUBEB in order to work out modalities for their onward employment  by the SUBEB.

    “At present, we have 1,007 public primary schools in Lagos, but with no single professionally trained graduates of ECE. Last year, this institution produced only 12, which are now being absorbed by private schools. However, this time, we have decided to invite SUBEB to see the 59 graduands that came out of this school, and to market them for the commission to absorb those who do not intend to further their education for now,” he said.

    A lecturer at the School of Early Childhood and Primary Education, Muyiwa Ashimolowo, said the exercise is expected to bridge the gap between theory and practice while providing inductees with contemporaries’ issues in the classroom.

    “Since it is research-based, ECAN will provide inductees with  research, while ACEP would avail them with contemporary emerging issues in the classroom. This we have done in an attempt to uphold Article 3 of the Child Right Convention which is in the best interest of the child,” he said.

    Daodu, who spoke on the topic: “After NCE certificate, what next?” encouraged the inductees not to lose hope as more opportunities abound on their field.

    She said the commission would look into how to forge a synergy with the college to enable its ECE products enjoy some benefits.

    Earlier, Bashorun admonished the them to strive to be true caregivers.

    As professionals, Bashorun said: “You are expected to allow those skills you acquired enable children and the society see the difference in professional practice in adult/children interaction.

    “In an attempt to hide their ignorance of the rudiments of child care, the unskilled nanny employs unconventional means to curtail the seeming excesses of children in their care by either administering drugs to force them to sleep, or tying them to objects to prevent their movement, among others.

    “These, indeed, are bad practices in child care. The society may be quick to ignore and forgive these unskilled cheats. However, the child and the society will neither forgive nor ignore a caregiver, who cannot add value to the child by allowing them enjoy and explore facilities in their environment.”

  • ‘Marginalisation of college of education graduates unhealthy’

    Special Adviser to the Lagos State Government on Education, Otunba Fatai Olukoga, has condemned the way graduates of colleges of education are treated by some people.

    He said despite peculiar challenges, products of colleges of education have turned out as notable academics who have contributed immensely to the development of education in their fields.

    Olukoga spoke at the 71st regular meeting of the Committee of Provosts of Colleges of Education in Nigeria, held at Micheal Otedola College of Primary Education, MOCPED, Noforija, Epe, Lagos.

    He said: “I condemn the misgivings in some quarters about colleges of education; it is regrettable that they have not yet received due recognition, among other tertiary institutions in this country.

    “The erroneous belief that dregs constitute the majority of fresh intakes into colleges of education is not only misleading but also misrepresenting and defamatory. It is also a fact that notable academics in the education profession are products of our colleges of education and they have contributed immensely to the development of the different fields in education.”

    He implored the provosts to re-chart, re-shape and re-model their training skills such that products from their institutions would compete favorably with their counterparts in other parts of the world.

    He further stated that education is no doubt the fundamental weapon to fight poverty “intimidate ignorance, defeat religious extremism and ensure social orderliness. “

    Olukoga continued: “Education is the bedrock of the development of any nation. The quality of any education system is determined by the quality of its teachers, and this is further premised on the quantum of the resources invested in their academic and professional development.”

    He said teachers are drivers of the society, curators of the past and the architects of tomorrow’s building blocks.

    Earlier, the Provost MOCPED, Prof Olu Akeusola, welcomed the over 20 provosts to the college. He seized the opportunity to identify various achievements of the college.

    Akeusola, who is also the COP Secretary-General, said MOCPED’s feat is attributable to pragmatic and proactive approach of the management towards development.

    “Despite the plethora of economic challenges besetting the college, the college management has not shirked their responsibility in making all efforts to make the college a centre of excellence with high standard of teaching and a culture of sustained learning,” he said.

    He thanked the institution’s Governing Council, Management members, students and staff who supported him in building the college.