By Pathfinder Reporter
Sunday January 28, 2024
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The Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) on Saturday appealed to progressively minded Nigerians to help endow the University in her bid towards achieving global reckoning as a 21st-century University.
A Professor of Microbiology and Director of FUOYE Advancement Centre, who is also the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Endowment of the University ceremonies committee, Prof. Olubukola Monisola Oyawoye, appealed while speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti.
According to her, such categories of Nigerians are expected from captains of industry, successful professionals, Alumni members, friends, associates, staff members, and also students.
She said the endowment had become necessary as the institution prepares to hold its next convocation ceremony in February.
Oyawoye explained that the endowment is featured as part of the weeklong 8th Convocation ceremony scheduled to be held from February 5 to 11, 2024 on the University premises.
Prof. Oyawoye, who had served as Osun State Commissioner for Environment, and equally served humanity in several capacities, such as consultant on Nutrition to UNICEF in D zone in Nigeria, President of the Nigerian Association of University Women, amongst others, said FUOYE needs endowment from all and sundry.
She explained that the endowment would further help the administration of the current Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sunday Fasina, to lift the University in providing sound and qualitative academic and social services to the over 50,000 students and enrich research and community services.
” The VVice-Chancellor has put in a great effort in developing the university since he assumed office close to three years ago.
” He has been building infrastructures, he has 34 classrooms built from IGR already, and he is still building many more. He is commissioning many projects during the forthcoming convocation ceremony.
” He is taking care of the students’ and staff’s welfare and all that, these are just very little percentage of what he needs to put this university on a global map”, she said.
Continuing, the don said “ FUOYE is being endowed now because, in the 21st century, the reality is that the government and the institutions cannot do it all.
” The Federal Government caters and funds a total of 146 Federal universities, all at the same time. If you don’t involve the private sector in the meaningful development of the university, it will be difficult.
“The Federal Government is taking care of not just many Universities, but also Polytechnics, Colleges of Education, Monotechnics, many of its Secondary and Primary schools. It equally takes care of the environment, personnel salaries, security, and many other welfare duties.
“A good visioner like our Vice Chancellor knows that without the help of the community, we may not achieve a lot of things. We need the immediate and extended communities’ input. Our immediate community is Ekiti State, the extended community is the South-West Nigeria and the larger community is the entire Nigeria, and even the International community.
“Without help from these quarters, you cannot be a first-class university. The endowment is when we call the well-to-do and well-meaning individuals and everybody to come and assist in developing the University. Even if it is a single Biro that you can give the University, it will be useful for someone”.
She noted that endowment is when you bring all of the like minds together, to come and see how they can better educational matters in the University, and this goes from learning materials to blocks of classrooms, to faculty buildings, laboratories and workshops, and other academic needs.
“It is expensive to run a University, and that is why those who attend private universities are paying heavily. This is why most big individuals who are managing private universities are investing so much into it.
“Most private universities are well endowed but this is not so with public universities like FUOYE because the Federal Government cannot handle it all alone.
” So, as a public university, that caters for most of the teeming youth, if you want to do well and augment what the government can do, and make national and global impact as we are trying to do, you must endow.
“This is why we are inviting many well-meaning Nigerians and other people who have hearts of gold, good people whom God has blessed, people who believe in education and also want to invest in the future and life of the youths of this country to come and endow FUOYE through February 9, 2024″, she added.
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