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President Goodluck
Jonathan will on Tuesday, May 17, visit Ilorin, the Kwara State capital
to commission the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete.

The university
which was established by the Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki, is
located in the Moro local government area in the northern senatorial
district of the state and commenced academic session since 2010.

Briefing newsmen in
Ilorin on the preparation of the presidential visit to the institution,
the Vice-Chancellor of the University, AbdulRasheed Na’Allah said the
institution will use the opportunity to sell the new university to the
entire world as arrangements had been concluded to make the president’s
visit a historic one.

Fielding questions
from reporters, Mr Na’Allah said, “The main objective of the
institution was to move its host community and environs from poverty to
wealth.”

According to him,
“for Nigeria to attain greatness, efforts must be made to make
universities agents of development especially at the grassroots.” He
said it was in recognition of this that the KWASU management created
the centre for entrepreneurship to teach students the practical aspect
of their studies so that they could be self-employed after graduating.

“Our goal in this
university is to produce global citizens who will be able to compete
favourably with their peers in any part of the world. This is the
reason why we recruited our academic staff from home and abroad,” he
added.

Mr Na’Allah who
condemned the post-election violence in parts of the country, urged the
government to urgently put machinery in place to forestall a recurrence
of the killings recorded in the violence where innocent youth corps
members lost their lives.

While mourning the
late corps members, Mr Na’Allah added that “the violence was uncalled
for, it is sad, it is barbaric. It is a sad story for Nigeria”.

“Though demonstrators must be allowed to ventilate their grievances but that must never be allowed to turn violence.” He said

Mr Na’Allah
commended Mr Jonathan for supporting the deceased youth corps members’
families with a compensation of N5m each and automatic employment for
their siblings with the federal service.