Saturday 7 March 2015

Adeleke University gets N50m ICT Resource Centre

Students of Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State are set to join their counterparts in other private universities across the country benefiting from international certifications in information and communications technology and e-business following the commissioning of a N50million ICT resource centre at the school by New Horizons, a global private IT training institute at the weekend...


The IT resource centre which has over 100 HP CPU-Monitor combined computers, intelligent boards, multimedia projectors, networking, software, international IT-E Biz courses/curricula, furniture, UPS, certified instructors, international exams centre, students courseware will help students escape the pervasive graduate unemployment syndrome which is ravaging job market.



Professor Oluwole Gideon Amusan, vice chancellor, the university speaking at the commissioning said it will enable every student irrespective of his or her academic discipline have minimum of four international skills certifications at 90 per cent subsidised rate, before graduation from the university. It will position them in global software development industry, e-banking, e-medical/telemedicine, e- government, e-legal administration, oil and gas as well as telecoms sector with attendant employment and self employment opportunities.




He said “It will provide skills that make our students more marketable and relevant to the demands of the job market. Today, ICT has made scholars to redefine literacy. Man will return to the Stone Age if ICT is removed from learning. Adeleke University deems it fit that all our students should have certifications in CCNA, Oracle, Java, Microsoft and other globally acclaimed IT and e-business professionals courses.”
Mr. Tim Akano, managing director, New Horizons Nigeria, said the company has extended globally recognised IT certifications which are sought after by employers across all sectors to almost all the private universities in the last 10 years training over 50,000 students nationwide. He urged the students to avail themselves of the opportunity presented by the resource centre by taking serious their coursework and strive to get the certification.




He said the world previously was ruled by the agrarian revolution, industrial revolution but in the 21st century, it is dominated by the information age which relies on ICT skills. “For any person to make great impact, he/she must have ICT skills. Whether you are studying Nursing, Business Administration, accounting, medicine, biology, law, etc, you need ICT skills.
“We felt that Adeleke University should not be left behind because the Internet has turned the world to a global village. You will compete for employment with people from China, India, USA, etc even as the job market is looking for people with the requisite skills irrespective of where they come from. You owe it a duty to put Nigeria on the global stage. With your IT and e-business certification you can be a millionaire as well as an employer of labour.”
Akano informed the students that today’s world economy is being ruled by the IT industry. “60 per cent of the richest people in the world and USA in particular are in the ICT industry such as the founder of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter, etc who are billionaires. “In the next 20 years, Nigeria’s crude oil will no longer become the major revenue earner. The services industry will be depend on ICT for revenue and it is here you come in.”
Also, Dr. Longe Olumide, ICT director and head, department of computer science while taking the governing council and management of Adeleke University as well as New Horizons, said the ICT certifications will make the students digital natives, place the school at the top among the like of MIT and Harvard university.”
He urged the students to make use of the opportunity and entrench the young university among Nigeria’s leading institutions.

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