By Awhawha Awhawha
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has ordered initiation of revocation proceedings for the abandoned Senate Building project of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka.
Governor Oborevwori, who gave the order in his remarks at the 17th convocation of the University in Abraka, said the revocation would enable the state government re-award it to a capable contractor and ensure swift completion.
The Governor’s directive was in response to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Samuel Asagba’s request to complete the Senate building, which has been abandoned for over 22 years.
The Governor directed the Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Nyerowho Tonukari, to ensure the project was revoked to ensure prompt completion.
In line with the tradition of the university, Governor Oborevwori also approved automatic employment for the overall best graduating student of the university, Okwa Favour Oghenemine, a mathematics graduate from the Faculty of Science with 4.95 CGPA.
Oborevwori congratulated the graduands who had been found worthy in learning and character for the award of various degrees of the great citadel of learning.
Governor Oborevwori commended the University’s Governing Council and management for the impressive growth recorded by the institution over the years.
The Governor had on arrival inaugurated the 1km Road linking Faculty Basic Medical Science to Faculty of Arts and lauded the University’s Governing Council and Management for the various projects executed during the short period.
The Pro Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of DELSU, General Alexander Ogomudia, thanked Governor Sheriff Oborevwwori for the assistance he has rendered to the school and called on donor agencies and philanthropic individuals to contribute to infrastructural growth of the university.
While calling on the state government to fast track completion of all ongoing and abandoned projects in the school and equally reminded graduands of the need to be good ambassadors of the institution in their various endeavours.
Welcoming guests earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Samuel Asagba, said that a total of 6,401 students were graduated from the 2023/2024 academic session, with total of 830 postgraduate degrees, comprising 154 Doctor of Philosophy, 438 Masters Degrees and 238 Postgraduate Diploma.
He said the university had attained 100 per cent accreditation of all its programmes, adding that it was recently ranked 20th position among over 300 Nigerian universities and 3rd position among state-owned universities in the country by the global SciVal Ranking tool of Elsevier.
The Vice-Chancellor commended Governor Oborevwori, for his commitment to the growth and development of the citadel of higher academic learning.
He said the university has completed several projects within the short period of his appointment as 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University.
At the convocation, the university confered honorary degrees to foremost entrepreneur and philanthropist, Chief Broderick Uvieoghene Arigbodi, Doctor of Science, renowned literary scholar, Professor Tanure Ojaide with Doctor of Letters, and outstanding industrialist and philanthropist, High Chief Eta Enahoro with Honorary Doctor of Business Administration.
The valedictorian, Okwa Favour Oghenemine of the Faculty of Science with 4.95 CGPA, thanked God for their success and appreciated the Vice-Chancellor, management and staff of the university for instituting the Students’ Work and Scholarship Schemes, which enabled indigent students to sustain their academic pursuits.