• 34 bag First Class as UNIMED holds sixth convocation
• Mimiko gets best graduating student in Master of Health Law and Policy
The University of Ilesa, Osun State, has asked students who might have belonged to illegal and cult groups to renounce their membership and surrender themselves to the school for necessary counselling.
The management of the institution also warned students against wearing indecent and seductive dresses, saying that anyone who defaults would not be allowed to enter into offices nor would the person be allowed to attend lectures.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Taiwo Asaolu, gave the order and warning in his address at the second matriculation ceremony held on the campus of the institution in Ilesa for the newly admitted students for the 2024/2025 academic session.
Asaolu, who also advised the students to show a high sense of discipline and orderliness in or outside the campus of the university, said that the institution would neither award its certificate to a student found wanting in learning nor to the one who lacks discipline and character.
Besides, the VC insisted that no form of inappropriate behaviour would be tolerated by the students, stressing that involvement in cultism, bullying, hooliganism, harassment, brigandage, and other forms of unlawful groups would attract serious sanctions.
He said: “And in case of any threat or pressure from anyone or group to join any anti-social/unregistered group, please do not hesitate to immediately report such a person or group to the university’s Security Unit or the Director, Student Affairs.”
IN another development, no fewer than 634 students, yesterday, graduated from the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, during the institution’s sixth convocation.
With 34 of the graduating students bagging First Class, 539 will graduate from the institution’s first degreeprogrammes, 95 will emerge from the postgraduate programmes, and 127 students will graduate with unclassified degrees.
The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, who disclosed this during the ceremony, said that those with unclassified degrees consist of 41 medical doctors, 23 dental surgeons, and 64 physiotherapists.
According to Fatusi, the research portfolio of the university has expanded within the last five years as well as focus on community development initiatives.
Meanwhile, the former governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko, clinched the Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu Prize for the best-graduating student in Master of Health Law and Policy.
On his part, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who disclosed that his administration had committed N1 billion towards the construction of the university’s Senate Building, hailed the institution on the strides achieved within a decade.
“Each graduate has not only completed an academic journey but is now part of the pioneering spirit that this institution has been known for since its establishment. For many of you in professional courses, I am aware that you have had to take your professional examinations along the way to get to this point of graduation.
“I have been reliably informed that UNIMED has consistently recorded 100 per cent in all professional examinations conducted by Regulatory Councils, including Nursing, Medical Laboratory Sciences and Community Health over the years.
“I am immensely proud of the remarkable achievements of this university and without any doubt, UNIMED is our pride in Ondo State and the institution has given us a great place of pride in the Nigerian health and education landscape,” Aiyedatiwa stated.
