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President urges students to be agents of change

President Buhari has urged Nigerian students to ensure a crisis free campus.

President Mohammadu Buhari has called on Nigerian students to encourage education for sustainable development.

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He made this statement during his visit to the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) during the institution's 27th Convocation.

The president, represented by Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie described universities as potential, powerful agents of change and urged them to take the lead in championing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address education-related issues for national development.

According to TheNation report, Okojie described universities as potential, powerful agents of change and urged them to take the lead in championing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address education-related issues for national development.

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He urges students to fight against corruption which negatively impacts the educational sector.

“Government is determined to fight corruption at all levels, including corruption in our tertiary Institutions.  We cannot speak of effective and efficient funding of the education sector if our universities are mired in curses, confusion, fraud and lack of institutional vision,” he said.

He also encouraged the graduands to turn themselves into employers of labour.

“Since the increased advocacy for entrepreneurship and its inclusion in the curriculum of universities by the National Universities Commission and its partners in the university system, higher institutions should henceforth strive to graduate students who are entrepreneurs and employers of labour.”

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Out of 4,435 graduands who were conferred with diplomas, first and postgraduate degrees at the ceremony, 28 undergraduates bagged first class, with Osakpolor Eki-Obakpolor of the Physics Electronics department emerging best graduating student with a cumulative GPA of 4.84; while the university graduated 73 doctor of philosophy (Ph.d) degrees, 743 Masters degrees, 829 postgraduate diplomas; 2,675 first degrees and 115 diplomas.

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