ILORIN—Founder and Chancellor, Landmark
University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David
Oyedepo, has called on African nations to evolve
sustainable growth and development in
agriculture to move the continent out of poverty,
saying poverty among black race was a product
of unused brain capacity to fashion out
solutions.
University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David
Oyedepo, has called on African nations to evolve
sustainable growth and development in
agriculture to move the continent out of poverty,
saying poverty among black race was a product
of unused brain capacity to fashion out
solutions.
Bishop Oyedepo spoke during the third
convocation of the university in Omu-Aran.
A total number of 51 graduates bagged First
Class; 233, Second Class Upper; 229, Second
Class Lower, while 19 were in Third Class
division out of a grand total of 532 graduating
students.
Bishop Oyedepo, who also said that there was
no united nations anywhere, but comity of
nations, stressed that knowledge was the new
currency of the world and application of
knowledge would bring about desired changes in
the society.
He said: “Human beings are created with equal
capacity. They are created with equal brain cells
and body system; equal destiny and equal
opportunities.”
In his keynote address, the pioneer Vice
Chancellor, Michael Okpara (Federal) University
of Agriculture, Umudike, Professor Placid Njoku,
said Federal Government, through the Ministry of
Education, should direct the National Universities
Commission, NUC; National Board for Technical
Education, NBTE, and the National Commission
for Colleges of Education, NCCE, to “totally
revise their curriculum for agriculture to formally
integrate entrepreneurship and approve
‘Agripreneurship’.
