Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has reiterated his administration’s dedication to fulfilling its funding obligations to the Rivers State College and supporting its growth into one of many prime establishments within the nation.
He made this recognized on the college’s thirty sixth Convocation in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday.
Represented by his Deputy, Prof Ngozi Odu, the governor expressed satisfaction with the college’s progress and contributions to manpower growth.
He acknowledged, “I share the delight of everybody who contributed to its considerable development and relative success. Nevertheless, the true commonplace and high quality of a college lie in its skill to broaden the frontiers of human data and contribute to societal progress by means of modern analysis and growth.”
The Customer urged the college’s administration to prioritise analysis and collaboration with the non-public sector for industrial linkages, internships, and job creation to safe a brighter financial future for college students and graduates.
He expressed gratitude to the Governing Council, led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili, for its high quality management and productive efforts in steering the college ahead inside a brief interval.
“We particularly commend your efforts in offering a conducive studying atmosphere, industrial peace and concord, and guaranteeing the college’s optimistic transformation by means of devoted educators and efficient administration,” the governor mentioned.
In his remarks, the establishment’s Chancellor, Justice Sidi Muhammad, applauded the Fubara-led administration for sustaining the imaginative and prescient and goals for establishing the college by means of constant funding regardless of present financial challenges.
He referred to as on stakeholders to companion with the college to construct a greater nation by guiding and coaching youths to turn out to be future leaders.
Additionally talking, the college’s Governing Council Chairman appreciated the state authorities’s efforts and charged the graduates to be good ambassadors of the establishment.
The Vice Chancellor of Rivers State College, Prof Nlerum Okogbule, famous that this was his closing convocation as VC earlier than the expiration of his tenure. He revealed that the college was graduating 8,920 college students, with 120 incomes First-Class honours.