Babcock won’t compromise standard –VC

The Vice-Chancellor, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Prof. Kayode Makinde has promised that the institution would not relent in producing globally competitive graduates.

While urging members of staff, especially lecturers to give their work deserved attention, he equally advised the students to make good use of the facilities on ground to come out of the institution with excellent grades.

Anything short of all these according to him would portray the institution a failure.

The vice-chancellor stated this during the institution’s 15th Founders’ Day celebration last week. Represented by the Senior Vice-President, Professor Iheanyichukwu Okoro, Makinde said without the determination of the pioneers, there would have been no Babcock University today.

Commending past and present staff for their contributions towards the sustenance of quality education in the institution, the vice-chancellor said the occasion calls for both soul-searching and a way-forward plan for the future.

According to him, the achievements so far recorded by the university were not man-made but God-ordained for the institution which barely took off as a university in 1999 with 1006 students now has over 8000 students.

“This is not man’s doing, but God’s,” he remarked. Other activities to mark the anniversary included: a rally, community service at the Ilishan town market; free medical screening by personnel of the Babcock University Teaching Hospital and courtesy call on the Olofin of Ilishan, Oba Michael Sonuga.

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