Buhari encourages students to utilize their surroundings

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March 4, 2016 10:03 AM

“Your immediate natural environment lends itself to the study of such environmentally relevant subjects."

UNILAG

President Mohammadu Buhari, on Thursday, March 3, advised the students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, to make good use of the advantages their surroundings provide.

Speaking as the Visitor on the final day of the institution's three-day convocation, Buhari, who was represented by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie, said Unilag is “blessed” given its proximity to the Lagos Lagoon.

He said: “UNILAG and other universities must continue to define their unique roles in relation to the objectives that birthed them and with respect to impacting their environment.

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“The University must therefore, in close consultation with the NUC, begin to develop new Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) at postgraduate levels for such programmes as Tourism Hospitality Industry and Management, which could leverage on the huge number of people who visit or transit through Lagos State daily and the aesthetic and commercial values of the Lagoon/Ocean shoreline.

“Your immediate natural environment lends itself to the study of such environmentally relevant subjects, such as oceanography, deep-sea and marine science and general sea-faring and marine transportation.

“In this endeavour, government advocates a new partnership- Federal Government-State government-Private Sector-host community.”

The institution graduated 10,907 students for the 2014/2015 academic session.

At yesterday’s ceremony, 5,435 postgraduate students, comprising 71 PhDs, 4,973 masters and 391 diplomas, received their scroll.

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