Governor Godwin Obaseki has given automatic employment to 12 students of the Edo State University, Uzairue who bagged first class degrees.
Obaseki who disclosed this during the 5th convocation ceremony of the university, said the 12 graduating students include an Internally Displaced Person at the Edo IDP camp, Amos Ishaku.
He said: “You have the story of Ishaka Amos who had an automatic job on Monday. He is not from Edo but it was because of what he has done. The spirit of hard work and resilience which he has demonstrated qualified him for a job in Edo State civil service.
“As you know, those of you who graduated with first class degrees, you have automatic job offers in the Edo State civil service.
“I had a session with 40 of our graduate trainees and I am pleased to tell you that about three who graduated last year are part of them.”
He said the institution is celebrating another milestone as nine PhD students graduated from the university, adding that he is committed to the development of the university.
He added that, “We will continue to endow this university as we have dreamt of it from the beginning. In next year’s budget we are going to include the amount of money to make sure that we finish the infrastructure in medical sciences and the completion of the teaching hospital.
“I have also instructed that our current deployment of high-speed fibre optic be extended to this school in order to support the efforts the institution has made to facilitate learning.”
Also speaking, the Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, said during the university’s seven years of existence, it has set some records for the older universities to emulate.
It is on record today that Edo State University Uzairue is the first in Africa to have acquired some of the hi-tech equipment for the training of her medical students. These include the Anatomage Table, a medical tool that allows for the real time display of human anatomy, and the SimMan 3G Mannequins in our Advanced Skills Laboratory.
In addition to this equipment that allows our medical students to have hands-on medical experience in the course of their training, we also have Edo State University Teaching Hospital in Auchi.
He said for the timely intervention in this direction repositioned the university to earn full accreditation for its medical programmes from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
According to him, the university is the first university in the Sub-Saharan African region to acquire the CANVAS Learning digital teaching and learning environment for its teachers and students.
Edo State University Uzairue was ranked by the National Universities Commission (NUC) as the 10th best University in Nigeria, 2nd best State University in Nigeria and best University in the South-south region of Nigeria in 2022.
“Today we have 356 graduates of Edo State University Uzairue out of which 12 are first class, 164 are Second Class Upper division, 234 are Second class lower division and 14 third class. We have 65 unclassified degrees. Nine candidates completed Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) programmes while four successfully completed Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) programs, 48 are graduating with Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees, while 38 will receive Postgraduate Diplomas,” Prof. Aluyor said.
On his part, the Pro Chancellor commended the state governor, Godwin Obaseki for creating the enabling environment and an uninterrupted academic calendar for over five years and currently convoking its fifth set of graduates.
He charged the graduands to be courageous, and be agents of positive change as the world needs your innovative ideas, leadership skills and determination to make a difference.
