Raising sound future leaders

At a time when job opportunities are hard to come by, getting one effortlessly is something to relish. This is the situation with Daniel Onyedikachi Otti, who was offered an automatic employment by the Chancellor of Edo University, Iyamho and Caverton Offshore Support Group Chairman Remi Makanjuola, during the institution’s second convocation ceremony. Mr Otti of the Department of Computer Science, was the best graduating student. Besides that gesture, the Chancellor donated a multi-million naira worth Molecular Biology Laboratory to the institution, CHINAKA OKORO reports.

THE nation’s labour market is said to be saturated due to the number of students each of the universities churns out every year. The graduates roam the streets each day in search of non-existent white collar jobs. Several years, some will be without any job while some will settle for any form of job in order to keep body and soul together. Their predicament was not thee result of lack of hard work or laziness but as a result of the great number of people in need of jobs.

However, for Mr Daniel Onyedikachi Otti, his job is waiting for him even before his national youth service. He will not join the labour market on queue. This is because he had been offered an automatic job employment by the Chancellor of Edo State University , Iyamho and the Chairman Caverton Offshore Support Group Aderemi Makanjuola.

The event was this year’s week-long glitz and glamour of the institution’s second convocation ceremony held on the school’s premises which has largely been described as an academic environment that has continued to be a trail blazer among the public universities in Nigeria.

Since its inception four years ago, it has grown in technological advancement even as it has set the pace in providing quality education for the teeming young Nigerians that jostle for its admission yearly. Truly, Edo University Iyamho Is said to have redefined public education in Nigeria.

After the Friday Jumat Service and Sunday Service to thank God for the successful completion of another academic year on October 30 and Sunday November 1 respectively, the 4th Founders’ Day lecture, which usually holds on March 23, was rescheduled because of the COVID-19 pandemic which was at its peak early this year.

It was eventually held (virtual) on Wednesday November 4, 2020.