Education

Dominion University Matriculates 215 Students

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By Dayo Adu

Dominion University Ibadan has matriculated two hundred and fifteen students for the 2023/2024 academic sessions 

The students, who were admitted into various courses of studies in the faith-based private institution, swore the oath of allegiance administered by the Acting Registrar of the university, Dr. Fortune Afatapka.

Admonishing the new students, the Chancellor and Chairman Board of Trustees, Dominion University, Bishop Taiwo Adelakun, counselled the students to be mindful of their choices and wishes, urging them to choose the good and avoid the questionable.

Delivering the university’s fifth matriculation lecture, a motivational speaker and entrepreneur, Dr Olumide Emmanuel, said lack of entrepreneurial skills was the bane of Nigeria’s development.

Dr. Emmanuel informed the students to develop an entrepreneurial mind, which according to him, is solutions-creating, risk-taking, need-meeting, value-adding and investing for the future.

Dr. Emmanuel urged them to make good use of their time, talents and treasures to make a positive impact on society.

Earlier in an address, the vice-chancellor of the university advised the students to take their studies seriously and shun acts of indiscipline and laziness.

Two matriculants, Adeyemi Adejare and Oladele Tobani,  promised to abide by the university’s rules and regulations, as well as work hard to attain academic excellence.

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Education

Dominion University Assures Parents of Students’ Security

By Web News 540

Chancellor, Dominion University Ibadan, Bishop Taiwo Adelakun, has given words of assurance to parents of students in the University that the institution is safe.

He gave the assurance at a news briefing held at the senate chamber of the University to douse the tension of travelling to the area.

Bishop Adelakun who explained that contrary to the news making the round that the route where the faith-based University was sited was notorious due to pockets of isolated kidnapping cases, said security architecture had been beefed up on the axis.

He stated that academic activities in the University community of about one thousand population which spanned on a 250 hectares of land space is unhindered since it commenced the new session.

On his part, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Gabriel Ọlọrunnisọlá, noted that the university was well equipped with facilities and thorough-bred erudite scholars including the first female Professor of Computer Science in Africa, Adenike Osofisan, to train the students admitted from twenty-six states of the federation and Ghana in the eleven programmes run by the institution.

Temidayo Adu

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