RECTOR Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara state, Dr. Mufutau Olatunde
Olatinwo, said that 14 students from the institution are among the
beneficiaries of a scholarship award by Federal Government. Dr. Olatinwo
said that among the institutions in kwara State, Federal Poly, Offa has
the highest number of awardees.
Dr. Olatinwo said this at the
21st matriculation ceremony for 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 sets, who were
admitted into the institution for their National Diploma (ND) and Higher
National Diploma (HND).
The ceremony which was done at the 1000
seaters capacity of the main campus, had in attendance the school
registrar, deputy rector, academic, deputy rector, admin, the school
lawyer and other principal officers of the school.
The rector said
that the school’s management has, in compliance to Federal Government’s
directives, instituted Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) to
make sure that students are well trained in all kinds of small scale
production, which is one of the aims to reduce unemployment among the
graduates.
He urged them to be embedded in entrepreneurship
development programmes setup by the school in order to be self employed
after their programme.
Olatinwo, while addressing the students,
warned the new students to be industrious and patriotic that the
Polytechnic Academic Board will not hesitate to withdraw any student who
performs below expectation in his or her academic work
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