Bishop David Oyedepo
The Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State has produced 39 first class graduates out of the 386 students that graduated during the 2013/2014 academic session, the Chancellor, of the institution, Bishop David Oyedepo has said.
He also said that 186 students graduated in second class Upper, 152 in the second class Lower and nine in the third class categories of the institution’s 13 academic programmes, during its first convocation on Saturday.
He stated that the students earned first degrees in Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Sociology and Economics.
He added that part of the students bagged degrees in other disciplines, such as Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Physics, Industrial Mathematics, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Computer Science.
Oyedepo said, “The investment of our church in education is therefore a visionary move aimed, in the case of Landmark University, at prosecuting an agricultural revolution as a solution to the nation’s food challenges.
“We are releasing this set of pathfinders also as highly employable graduates, having been specially equipped as productive human resources entities.
“These graduates have run through a unique education mill and have been equipped with required leadership skills to become agents of change in the leadership that awaits them.”
Oyedepo, who is also the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, appealed to Nigerian leaders to redesign their policies towards developing agriculture so as to reduce the high rate of unemployment and insecurity in the country.
He claimed that the university authorities had tackled the nation’s challenge of low enrolment for agricultural programmes.
He added that the management had carried out enlightenment visits to secondary schools and had instituted scholarship programme for students of agriculture.
“In preparing our students for the world of work and in line with the agriculture revolution mandate of the university, farm practice is a mandatory aspect of their curriculum for all students to develop their agricultural entrepreneurial skill, which helps to generate their interest in agriculture, as well help them understand the dignity of labour,” he said.
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, called on tertiary institutions in the country and other stakeholders to put an end to the practice of treating agriculture as a development programme only.
He stated that agriculture should rather be made as a business in order to unlock its potential, adding that the country would evolve a new growth model to unlock the huge potential of Nigeria’s agricultural lands.
Akinwumi, in his keynote address at the convocation, said Nigeria’s achievements had remained exclusive, noting that millions of people feel alienated and only hear about the growth numbers.
“Today, Nigeria is the fourth fastest growing economy in the world, and we are now the largest economy in Africa.
“The growth in Nigeria, as in most of the countries in Africa, is not inclusive. Nigeria’s rural economies harbour the greatest share of those being left behind or excluded.
“There is no doubt, therefore, that we need a new growth model that stimulates shared posterity, creates job for millions of our rural youths and unlock the huge potentials of lands,” he said.
He stated that the Federal Government had inaugurated the Agriculture Transformation Agenda to ensure national food security and make the country self-reliant. The Vice-Chancellor, Landmark University, Prof. Ola-Rotimi Ajayi, said the varsity had established collaboration with leading research organiz=sations to enhance the performance of the students
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