As part of its contribution towards nation building, the University of Benin Alumni Association (UBAA), Lagos branch has promised to offered automatic employment to best graduating students from the school every year. Speaking at the 86th UBAA’s national council meeting dinner and awards programme in Lagos recently, the President of the association, Hon. Ifaluyi Isibor, said that they came up with such measure to provide as their own way to help ameliorate the unemployment situation in the country.
He added that the alumni association would contribute to nation building by encouraging, identifying and projecting those students who have excelled in their academy performance.
In his remark the Chairman of UBAA, Lagos branch, Mr. Emmanuel Oriazuwa , said that the University of Benin as the citadel of academic excellence, strives for excellence and honours excellence, adding that his group is honouring those who have excelled in their various professions. He said that nation building requires the best minds to take up active roles in policy formulations and implementation.
He urged all members of the group to take in the various projects of the association as part of their socio-responsibility and service to humanity, saying a 1,000 sitting capacity lecture theatre built by the alumni association for the university, has spurred the UBAA family to do more.
While the special guest speaker, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, who was represented by former commissioner of finance , Lagos State, Prince Rotimi Oyekan , said that as far the university is concerned, it can hold her head high and say she has undeniably produced great people.
“I know this because many of them who have served in government, have laboured selflessly and passionately in turning the wheels of progress in our nation.
Many of them are also performing brilliantly in their chosen fields. This is what makes a university worth all the effort, the quality of human capital that it produces and their impact on their society. “The value of a university does not lie in its location, or its lecturers or its aesthetic appeal. Its true values lies in its ethos; the set of values it is able to imbibe in those pass through it,” he said.
