…Varsity begins drug test on students.
The Kwara State government has offered automatic employment to Fatimah Jubril Musa, the best graduating student of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin.
Speaking during the institution’s ninth convocation at the weekend, registrar, Hajia Rasheedat Oladimeji, said that Miss Fatimah Musa, who bagged First Class in Economics, will resume work at the state Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) after the completion of her mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.
The registrar also said that 26 of the 896 graduates bagged First Class degrees in various disciplines, adding that 824 bagged First degrees, 59 bagged postgraduate degrees while 13 bagged diploma certificates at the convocation.
Also speaking, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq said his administration is working hard to deepen access to qualitative education that would make the Kwara State child truly competitive in the 21st-century knowledge economy.
“This administration is committed to expanding access to qualitative education, making education functional and dynamic so that the knowledge and skills acquired would transform the entire society,” he said.
Represented by Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Hajia Sa’adatu Moddibo-Kawu, the governor listed some of his steps in the education sector to include the ongoing process to renovate 31 schools, rehabilitate the state library and make it conducive for 21st-century learning, as well as its reformist attempt to standardise teaching.
The governor charged the graduates to try to be relevant in the global economy through relevant skills.
Recall that the administration of thr University said it has begun drug test on its students.
The Vice Chancellor said: “We have introduced drug testing for students at the point of entry into our institution. This is to keep an eye on those students who use drugs and to know the drug abusers amongst them at the point of entry.
“After close monitoring and watching them, those ones that fail to quit will be shown the way out of Al-Hikmah.”