Ekiti Fed varsity admits 400 pioneer students

ADO-EKITI—The management of newly-established
Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, has said only 400
students out of 11,560 that applied for admission
would be admitted as pioneer students, for the
Oye and Ikole campuses of the institution.
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Chinedu
Nebo, said this in Oye-Ekiti, weekend, at a briefing
to wrap up the post-JAMB test for prospective
students.
Nebo,who spoke through the university's Acting
Registrar, Mr. Abiodun Adeyemo, said the
institution would commence academic activities
with five faculties; namely Humanities, Sciences,
Agriculture, Social Sciences and Engineering.
The Acting Registrar said the pioneer students
would resume formally on July 25, making the
university the first to take off among the nine
newly- established universities by the Federal
Government last year.
The Vice-Chancellor assured that the students shall
not only be sufficiently made to pass through
academic training alone, but would be exposed to
skills acquisition programmes that will guarantee
self-employment after the completion of their
courses.
He said the dream of the institution was to train
students that will be employers of labour rather
than the situation in conventional universities,
where graduands turn out to be jobless for several
years after graduation.