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Enugu governor lays foundation of entrepreneurial varsity
Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Saturday, performed the foundation laying ceremony of Samuel Maduka University, Agu-Ekwegbe in Igbo-Etiti local government area of the State.
The university is founded by Samuel Onyishi, the proprietor of Peace Mass Transit company.
Describing the event as a milestone achievement, Ugwuanyi congratulated the founder of the university for his courage and vision in establishing the institution, and reiterated the premium his administration places on education as one of its cardinal policies.
He said: “This is why in almost five years, education has taken the second position, only after works and infrastructure, in the state capital budget portfolio.”
The governor added that his administration has provided a conducive environment for teaching and learning in both primary and secondary schools across the state and also “ensured that our tertiary institutions are functional and stable.”
He, therefore, expressed optimism that the university when completed would create employment, especially for the youth and provide the much-needed manpower for the industrial and technological growth of the country.
He said: “As we are aware, one of the greatest challenges of this country is youth unemployment. An entrepreneurial university will address the issue of youth unemployment by making graduates not only to be self-employed but also employers of labour themselves.
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“I, therefore, salute the courage and vision of this consummate entrepreneur, Dr. Samuel Maduka Onyishi in proposing this entrepreneurial university. This is where Nigeria should be in a technology-driven 21st century.”
Earlier in his address, Onyishi said he did not conceive the university as another business, but “as a social service which should improve the lives of people of all races, mould for limitless attainments, children of all people of the world, irrespective of creed or class.”
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