Founder/President, African Marine Environment Sustainability Initiative and Member, UN Group of Experts on Marine Environment, Dr. Felecia Chinwe Mogo, yesterday, tasked graduands of Igbinedion University, Okada, to leverage on the modern-day technologies to actualize their lofty dreams.
She gave the task while delivering a lecture titled “The Changing Higher Education Landscape: Implications for Emerging Workplace Dynamics” at 21st convocation ceremony of the Institution.
Dr. Mogo said the graduands, as they are leaving the university into the wider society, they must be able to think outside the box and utilize technology to their own advantage adding that failure to move along with the trend, they will be left behind.
Mogo admonished them never to give up on their dreams but to remain resilience, steadfast in their pursuit of knowledge adding that, that is the only way they can succeed in their endeavours.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye who took out time to reel out the successes recorded since the inception of the institution, said the school has remained resolved in its pursuit of academic excellence and would not renege on it.
“The university has since inception, graduated over 16,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
” At this conversation ceremony, another batch of 842 students comprising 691 undergraduate and 151 postgraduate students will be added to the list of distinguished graduates spread across the seven colleges.
“The breakdown of the undergraduate students show that 36 are in First Class; 299 students in Second Class Upper Division and 205 Second Class Lower Division.
“There is none in Third Class while 150 earned unclassified degrees (Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy).
” Significantly, out of the graduating students in this category, four had distinctions in Community Medicine while three made distinctions in Pharmacy”, Ezemonye said.
Also speaking, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Prof. Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah, said the university has had an unbroken record of academic excellence since it came into being over 20 years ago.
He said they will continue to support the institution in the area of grants so that it can give its best to the students.
Abdullah advised the graduands not to stop learning but to open their minds to learnings stressing that, that is the only sure way to go and become successful in life.
For the Chancellor of the university, Lucky Igbinedion, he charged the graduands to be good ambassadors of the university.
He thanked the parents of the graduands for their sacrifices that have placed them where they are today just as he also commended the lecturers for their commitments to duty that have culminated to a very successful story.