Deploy your intellectual sophistication to make a difference, VC urges graduates

Graduates of Nigerian universities have been charged to rise up to the occasion and play the critical roles expected of them, in ensuring the country’s sustainable socio-economic development.

Vice Chancellor of Christopher University, Mowe, Ogun State, Professor, Friday Ndubuisi, who gave the charge while playing host to a delegation of Anambra State Women Association (ANSWAL), Lagos State, who were in his office on a courtesy visit pointed out that different areas of the country’s national life have grown in complexity, hence university graduates should deploy their intellectual sophistication to forge ahead.

Ndubuisi, a professor of philosophy noted that it was imperative for universities to design quality programmes aimed at inculcating profound academic, vocational and other abilities in their products.

“Products of the university system cannot shy away from being in the lead in efforts to take Nigeria to the next level. This is why each university should endeavour to produce quality graduates,” Ndubuisi stated.

The vice chancellor, who is also a legal practitioner assured that Christopher University, would produce graduates that would also double as also creators of wealth, as according to him, the school would, while preparing students for their degree examinations, help them sit and clear the different professional examinations before graduation.

He said the school, a fully residential institution, would also have a cocktail of clerics on campus helping to inculcate the right moral values in the students.

President of ANSWAL, Dr. Nkiru Ifekwem, who said that public and private concerns were not likely to absorb all unemployed people, pointed out that the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills by graduates would help the nation find solutions to the rising unemployment rate.

Ifekwem commended Christopher University for its innovative disposition, promising that her association would support the university to continue to break new grounds.