3rd Ondo varsity matriculates 1,000 fresh students
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Matriculation
By Remi Bamgbose
Okitipupa (Ondo State) March 1, 2018 (NAN) The Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, is to matriculate 1,000 newly admitted students on March 8.
The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Sunday Ogunduyile, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Okitipupa that the matriculation would hold at the university’s permanent site.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the university is the third of such state-owned institutions established by the late Gov. Olusegun Agagu, who hailed from the area.
The state boasts of Adekunle Ajasin University at Akungba Akoko, established by the late Gov. Adebayo Adefarati from the town and the University of Medical Sciences in Ondo inaugurated by the immediate past governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, also from Ondo.
He said the institution which hitherto operated only the Faculty of Sciences now has two newly accredited faculties — Engineering and Agriculture.
“We are fully set for the matriculation of over 1,000 students who passed and are still undergoing the screening exercise and have completed their admission process into the institution.
“We were running just the Faculty of Sciences now we have two more faculties — Engineering and Agriculture – recently accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC),’’ he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Fela Fashoro/Dele Akinsola