Jimoh Ahmed,Owo

Former Vice Presdent of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will on Friday deliver the Convocation Lecture of Achievers University as the institution marks its 11th Convocation Ceremony and 14th anniversary.
This was disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Samuel Olabanji Aje at a press conference held at the Council Chambers of the school.
He is also expected to turn the sod of a new hall of residence named after him on the same day.
The former Vice President, along with two other prominent Nigerians, Emeritus Judge of Oyo State, Justice Badejoko Olateju Adeniji, JP and a retired Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Civil Service and the Baba Adinni of Owo and Ose, Alhaji Abdul-Raheem Disu Sule will be honoured.
The lecture is titled “Diversity, Education and Autonomy.”
A total of 434 graduands will be conferred with first degrees out of them, 27 will bag first class.
The convocation ceremony and 14th anniversary of the institution will be held on Saturday.
Aje also disclosed that 280 indigent students are currently on a tuition free scholarship which will last three years of their four year course duration while students in the Engineering department are also on a 50% cut in tuition fees.
“In the 2020/2021 academic session, we embarked on the journey of offering scholarship/free tuition to students in 10 of our programmes, namely; Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, Plant Science and Biotech Industrial Chemistry and Geology.
“Indeed, 280 students were given admission and are enjoying the scholarship/tuition free arrangement. This arrangement provides opportunity to students who are under normal circumstance, would not have had access to a choice University of this nature.
“Having successfully handled the tuition free scholarship arrangement for one academic session, the Governing Council of Achievers University has graciously added two more programmes to the scholarship/tuition free. The two additional programmes are: Human Physiology and Human Anatomy.
“This is to say that any student that chooses to read any of the following programmes shall enjoy the tuition free scholarship for three (3) consecutive years of his training. I therefore encourage interested students to take advantage of this opportunity as admission is still in progress.
“The Governing Council of Achievers University has gone further to make access to qualitative education easy by initiating a mouth-watering 50% discount on tuition for the programmes in Engineering,” he said.
Similarly he stated that 94% of courses in the school have full accreditation, eight programmes are due for accreditation which the process will commence in the next few days while 80% of the programmes have full accreditation from the Council for the Registration of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the National Council for Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria.