The chancellor, Dr David Oyedepo, congratulating the overall best graduand, Danjuma Deborah Ele-Ojo, of the Mechanical Engineering programme during the 10th convocation of Landmark University, Omu Aran, last Friday.
The solutions to the challenges facing Africa and Africans lie within, and as such, all stakeholders must look inward to chart the way out of the logjam.
The Chancellor of Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Dr. David Oyedepo, stated this at the 10th graduation ceremony of the institution held in Omu-Aran, Kwara State, last Friday.
According to Dr Oyedepo in his speech titled ‘The Type of Education We Need in Africa,’ Africa is the home of modern civilisation, and leaving everything to chance in this age has relegated the African continent to the backwaters, requiring steps to be taken for all the problems to be solved.
“I believe finding indigenous solutions is the only way forward for any community of people…so my challenge to Africans in the knowledge industry is to come awake and begin to chart the way forward by developing learning modules geared towards the birth of a New Africa,” Dr Oyedepo said at the ceremony.
He stated that the mission of Landmark University—restoring Africa’s lost glory—is in line with the call on Africans to find indigenous solutions to their challenges.
“Landmark University is an Afrocentric university with a burning passion for New Africa,” he added.
While addressing the students, Dr Oyedepo charged them to be the problem solvers the world is seeking rather than “storytellers or entertainers.”
In her speech at the ceremony, the Pro-Chancellor of Landmark University, Pastor (Mrs.) Faith Oyedepo disclosed that the origin of the 14-year-old institution’s latest batch of graduates cut across 30 states of Nigeria.
While charging the new graduates, Mrs Oyedepo told them to be passionate about God and His Word, to be proactive by being solution providers, just as they must also be patient rather than being in a hurry, which may make them “end up in horror.”
She also reminded me that “life after graduation is exciting but, at the same time, demanding.”
At the ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor of Landmark University, Professor Kolawole O. Ajanaku, highlighted the qualities and credentials that make the institution sought-after, among others.
Among these, according to Professor Ajanaku, are Landmark’s mission of nurturing a cadre of reformers, global leaders, and solution providers based on transformative curricula; vibrant and brilliant faculty staff and students who have continued to bag awards and recognitions up until the last academic session; exposure to the Word of God; agripreneurship; and special modules generated with the guidance of the chancellor.
By Webometrics ranking, Landmark University is rated the second best among the private universities in Nigeria, ninth in Nigeria, and 40th in Africa.
In the ranking of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Landmark University is the fifth-best among 47 private universities in Nigeria and ninth among 196 federal and state universities.
Earlier, the Secretary of the Board of Regents, Dr. Daniel Rotimi, had taken the Bible reading, while the Registrar of the institution, Engineer Adebayo Ajala, had given the welcome address at the ceremony.
A total of 504 students received their first degrees, with 29 receiving various postgraduate degrees at the ceremony.
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