PIONEER
private Islamic university in Nigeria, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, has
produced 16 First Class graduates out of 916 students across various
programmes
, departments and faculties in this year convocation ceremony.
Speaking
with journalists on seventh convocation ceremony of the university in Ilorin on
Tuesday, the vice chancellor of the Islamic University, Professor Taofeek
Ibrahim, said that breakdown of the graduates included 827 undergraduates and
89 postgraduates.
The
vice-chancellor said that 208 bagged Second Class Upper, 434 with Second Class
Lower, adding that 143 had Third Class while 26 got a pass.
Professor
Ibrahim, who said that 2017 result of the graduating students showed remarkable
improvement in academic performance, added that the authorities remained
committed to doing better until it eliminated students graduating with Pass and
Third Class grades.
The
vice-chancellor also said that the nation's educational system should be
restructured to address national needs.
"To
effectively address the problems of unemployment in Nigeria, we need to
identify our areas of need, the needs of our markets, our consumption pattern,
what products and services are needed and what jobs we need to provide, and
therefore, what areas to invest our funds for the much-needed progress and
development of individuals, families, organizations, institutions, governments
and the country at large", he said.
He also said
that the Nigerian university system and academics should move out of research
and publication for just scientific and literary writing prowess, rather, he
said they should graduate to "researchers with the ability to inform
useful and practicable policies, life-impacting technological innovation and
development and the ability to identify and solve problems confronting the
humanity".
The vice
chancellor, who said that corruption was the very basis of Nigeria's lack of
growth, progress and underdevelopment, added that nothing was more responsible
for the nation's mismanagement and maladministration other than corruption.
"Whereas
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah built functional refineries before Ghana's discovery of
oil, years after, Nigeria, today, lack efficient oil refinery", he said.
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