The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State College, Malete, Professor Shaykh-Lukman Jimoh, has tasked new graduates of the establishment to transform challenges into stepping-stones within the face of the discouraging charge of employment alternatives within the nation.
Jimoh who gave the recommendation on Saturday on the twelfth convocation ceremony of the college urged the scholars to not see the current problem of unemployment as limitations however to make use of it as alternatives to form their lives and alter the world.
He charged the recent graduates to utilize the information they acquired throughout their course of research within the college to make an influence within the society they might discover themselves.
“You might have been correctly outfitted to make a distinction. So, I urge you to start out the place you might be, use what you’ve and do what you’ll be able to to perform nice issues. The training you’ve acquired at Kwara State College is your ticket to vary the world. You might have been tutored on the necessity for, and rudiments of being self-sustaining.
“The college has proven how and why you need to interact with society and the surroundings with each sense of duty, what stays now’s so that you can set sail into the world and make that distinction that may convey glory to you, your loved ones and your Alma Mata.
“I hope your sojourn with Kwara State College has proven you that wealth can and must be measured by the quantity of influence you make on the world. Be form, be impactful, and make that distinction nonetheless minute. No act of kindness, irrespective of how small, is ever wasted.
“You might be our ambassadors and we glance as much as you to propagate the values for which your college is thought. Convert challenges to stepping-stones, see alternatives the place others see limitations, tackle new adventures and dwell lives worthy of emulations, he said.
A complete of 6,891 college students comprising 6,374 undergraduates, 468 for Grasp’s diploma programmes whereas 49 obtained their PhD on the Convocation ceremony.
The Vice-Chancellor stated that the College recorded 71 first-class graduates, 1,828 second-class higher division, 3,501 in second-class decrease division and 974 in third-class grade.
Jimoh recommended the Kwara State Authorities for its dedication to the expansion of the College of Ilorin as he praised the governor, Mallam AbdulRaman AbdulRazaq for being “an awesome pillar to us, making certain stability and selling the credibility of processes of the college.”
He, nonetheless, urged the assist of the federal government and the partnership of the non-public sector to surmount the challenges of street infrastructure and encroachment on the establishment’s land and provision of hostel lodging for college kids.
In his speech, the state governor, Abdulrazaq, tasked the graduates to be good ambassadors of their Alma Mata and the state as he additionally charged them to leverage the information and abilities they’d acquired to make a significant influence in society.
AbdulRazaq who was represented by the state commissioner for Tertiary training, Dr Mary Arinde, expressed delight on the taking off of the 2 different campuses of the college at Osi and Ilesha-Baruba communities respectively.
The governor, whereas noting that the taking off of the campus confirmed the dedication of his administration to the expansion and growth of the college assured that the administration wouldn’t fail within the dedication to offering good training and different social infrastructure to the folks of the state.