JABU trains 620, produces nine first class graduates

Vice-Chancellor, JABU, Professor Sola Fajana
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Authorities of the Joseph Ayo Babalola University in Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, on Monday said the institution was partnering with the state government to train 620 youths under the state’s empowerment scheme.

The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Sola Fajana, who stated this at a news conference on its fourth convocation ceremony slated for Friday, also said that the school had produced a new set of nine first class graduates this year.

Under the arrangement, he said the institution was mandated by the Osun State Government to train the youths in entrepreneurial skills that would be supervised and coordinated by the directorate of the state’s Youth Empowerment Scheme.

Fajana also explained that the university was partnering with the News Agency of Nigeria for the training and retraining of members of staff of government establishment.

He said the programme which was being coordinated by the Mass Communication Department of the institution would also lead to students/staff exchange in the practice of journalism.

He said, “The programme will develop the talents of the students and the teachers and provide a platform to reveal these talents in the form of demonstration, training workshop and exhibition.”

The vice-chancellor said nine of the 316 students of the school who would take part in the convocation ceremony on Friday had first class while 189 of them had Second Class Upper Division.

He said 94 of them had Second Class Lower Division while 24 graduated with a Third Class.

He said none of the graduating students was in the pass category in line with the directive of the National Universities Commission which discouraged the award of a pass.

Fajana said the multi-million naira Gate House donated to the school by the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, would be inaugurated on Thursday.

He also said that the foundation laying ceremony of an ultra-modern Senate building which Olukoya had agreed to build for the university would be performed immediately after the inauguration of the Gate House