Abdulrazaq vows to restore KWASU's lost glory

The Kwara State Government has affirmed its determination to make the State University (KWASU) the silicon's valley of the country.
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who gave the assurance yesterday at the seventh convocation and 10th anniversary of KWASU, said all the public resources would be deployed to ensure that the university and state reclaim their lost glory.
Represented by his Deputy, Mr. Kayode Alabi, the governor said the state used to be the reference point for excellence in the defunct Northern Nigeria where the state paraded the best of all fronts in education, healthcare, law, agro-processing and entrepreneurship, among others.
Abdulrazaq noted that his government is also determined to build a state with food security and zero hunger with the capacity to feed the whole of the country.

He therefore challenged the university to join his administration in the plan to make the state the agric hub of West Africa by coming up with cutting edge-technology and ideas to realise the vision.

Abdulrazaq congratulated the Governing Council of the institution, the outgoing vice chancellor and his team, parents and the graduated students for their contributions to the growth and development of the institution.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Abdulrosheed Na'Allah, said there are identifiable areas of challenges that confronted the university, pointing out that for the past five years, the institution has not received subvention from the government.
According to him, it is an enormous challenge facing the university currently and it is lamentable that it has gotten to a point where staff salary has become something of a luxury rather than right, adding that the university developed partnership with a bank that houses the Treasury Single Account and borrows from it whenever IGR is exhausted.
Lamenting that the stoppage of subvention had adversely affected the finances of the institution where some critical teaching and research facilities could not be provided, Na'Allah called for adequate funding of the university to compete favourably with contemporaries within and outside the country.

The vice chancellor who listed some of his achievements in office as the longest serving vice chancellor in Nigeria, said the institution has grown with the establishment of a microfinance bank, FM Radio station while its television station is in the process of completion, establishment of solar farm and commencement of foreign courses including Japanese, among others.
Earlier in his convocation lecture, the lecturer, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) had called for adequate funding to tackle the rot in the education sector.

The university graduated a total of 1,196 students in the 2018/2019 academic session.
Out of this number, 25 students were awarded with First Class degrees, 592 Second Class Upper and 533 got Second Class Lower, and forty six third class.
The university also produced five PhD holders and 159 Masters students.

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