FUOYE - The management of
newly-established Federal
University, Oye-Ekiti, has said
only 400 students out of 11,560
that applied for admission
would be admitted as
pioneer students, for the Oye
and Ikole campuses of the
institution.

Vice-Chancellor of the university,
Professor Chinedu Nebo, said
this in Oye-Ekiti, weekend,at a
briefing to wrap up the post-
JAMB test for prospective
students.

Nebo,who spoke through the
university痴 Acting Registrar, Mr.
Abiodun Adeyemo, said the
institution would commence
academic activities with five
faculties; namely Humanities,
Sciences, Agriculture, Social
Sciences and Engineering.

The Acting Registrarsaid the
pioneer students would resume
formally on July 25, making the
university the first to take off
among the nine newly-
established universities by the
Federal Government last year.
The Vice-Chancellor assured that
the students shall not only be
sufficiently made to pass
through academic training alone,
but would be exposed to skills
acquisition programmes that
will guarantee self-employment
after the completion of their
courses.

He said the dream of the
institution was to train students
that will be employers of
labour rather than the situation
in conventional universities,
where graduands turn out to be
jobless for several years
after graduation.

Source: Vanguard