Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State says his administration is committed to restoring the state’s glorious days as education vanguard and agricultural hub.
The governor stated this at the 9th to 13th combined convocation ceremony, investiture of the chancellor and award of honorary doctorate degrees by Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU) Katsina, on Saturday.
Radda explained that his administration had embarked on upgrade of infrastructure and facilities in the existing schools aimed at improving the standard of education in the state.He said that the government was constructing new schools and had recruited more than 7, 000 additional qualified teachers to contribute in boosting students enrollment.
The governor said promised that his administration would continue to commit huge percentage of state’s budget to the education sector. Radda, while congratulating the graduands for being found worthy in learning and character and awarded various degrees, urged them to create jobs, become enterprising and employers of labour.
The governor announced automatic employment for all the graduands with first class degrees.In his remarks, Sen. Ibrahim Muhammad-Ida, the new Chancellor of the university, urged the school focus on academic excellence, students’ success and encourage community management.He reminded the graduating students of the need to maximise their time in meaning ventures saying, “we are born, we live, and we will die. We should not waste any time in our duration of existence doing irrelevance things.
