FORMER
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Late Chief
Bola Ige, was on Wednesday honoured, as the visitor to the Osun State
University and Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, named the
state-owned university after him.
This was part of a sweeping renaming of
all tertiary institutions in the state which was announced at the
convocation ceremony of the university where oil magnate and founder of
the Rose of Sharon Foundation, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, was unveiled as
the new Chancellor of the institution.
Other institutions renamed were Osun
State College of Technology, Esa-Oke now Bisi Akande College of
Technology; Osun State Polytechnic, Iree now, Sunday Afolabi
Polytechnic; College of Education, Ila Orangun, now Adeyemi Oyeduntan
College of Education and the College of Education, Ilesa, which will now
be Lawrence Omole College of Education.
Others are UNIOSUN College of Law,
Ifetedo, now Kayode Esho College of Law; College of Social Sciences and
Management, Okuku, now Olagunsoye College of Social Sciences, Okuku;
College of Agriculture, Ejigbo, now Isiaka Adeleke College of
Agriculture, Ejigbo; College of Education, Ipetu Ijesa, now Ezekiah
Oluwasanmi College of Education and College of Humanities and Culture,
Ikire, now Eniola Atanda College of Humanities and Culture.
The development came as the new
Chancellor, Alakija, described her conferment as the chancellor of Bola
Ige University and the award of honorary doctorate degree in business
administration as another glass ceiling broken by womanhood.
Aregbesola commended Alakija, who with
her investiture becomes the first female chancellor in any public
university in Nigeria, for counting the university worthy and accepting
to serve as its chancellor.
He said, “I therefore want this
university to affect our society at three levels. First is at the level
of teaching which should prepare the students for post graduate life by
equipping them with life sustenance skills, especially technical and
entrepreneurial education.”
“Secondly, the universities should
tailor its researches into immediate and prospective challenges of
mankind in health, food, housing, infrastructure, societal organisation
and the seemingly unknown aspects on nature and so on.”
“The essence of the education enterprise
is for man to be able to conquer nature and dominate the environment.
This should translate into better life for all. An end should come to
the idea of research for getting promotion which then gathers dust in a
shelf somewhere.
“Thirdly, the universities should also
be engaged in society through public service, by bringing their
knowledge and research findings to bear directly in needed areas,”
Aregbesola remarked.
Speaking earlier, the new chancellor
harped on the central role of academic empowerment so as to guarantee
economic growth among the people of the country, stressing that
importance of education cannot and can never be over-emphasised because
the lack of it could only bring poverty of body, mind and of living.
Hmmm naming ceremonies.
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