The Vice-Chancellor, Samuel Adegboyega
University, Ogwa, Edo State, Prof. Ben Aigbokhan, has said that cultism
are ruthlessly dealt with in the school.
Aigbokhan said this on Monday at a briefing to announce the maiden convocation ceremony of the varsity.
According to the don, 58 students will
graduate at the ceremony which will hold on Friday. While Aigbokhan said
four students will bag first class degree, 23 others will graduate with
a second class upper degree and 27 students will bag second class lower
degrees.
“Students need an exit to get out. It is
not popular with the students but it is popular with the parents. We
expelled six students and one of them is a pastor’s son. Also, we
expelled them on the eve of their second semester exam. That is our way
of inculcating fear into others. We are very ruthless when it comes to
cultism. We have a total population of about 500 students but we will
rather have a few students than many problematic students,” he said.
The
VC also listed the achievements of the institution to include the
establishment of the Centre for Research and Development of Esanland as
well as the partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development to nurture 10,000 oil palm nuts nursery to small-scale
farmers, among others, in four years.
According to him, the development shows that SAU is competing favourably with other established universities.
“It is usually a government to government
partnership. But for a private and non-agricultural university to have
succeeded in bidding for that project shows that we have a lot of
promise ahead of us,” he said.
Aigbokhan, who also added that all
programmes of the institution were duly accredited, disclosed that a
former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission,
Prof. Peter Okebukola, would deliver the convocation lecture.
“All our programmes are duly accredited
by the NUC. You must have at least 70 per cent in each of four sub-heads
of your programmes and these include your library, staffing, funding
and academic programme. You have full accreditation when you have at
least 70 per cent and interim accreditation when you have the percentage
in only three of them. All our programmes have at least 73 per cent
with Mass Communication Department having 83 per cent, “he said.
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