The Federal University at Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) at the
weekend held its maiden convocation ceremony
where the Attah Igala, HRH Michael Idakwo, Ameh
Oboni II, was installed its Chancellor. Five hundred and four students for the 2014/2015
and 2016/2016 sessions got certificates their first
degrees. Ten of the graduates made First Class honours. The university conferred honorary doctorate
degrees on four personalities, including 100-year-
old former Headn Teacher of Ekiti Parapo College at
Ido-Ekiti, Prince Adepoju Akomolafe; 92-year-old
former Head Teacher of Queen’s College in Lagos,
Mrs. Efunjoke Coker; 89-year-old former Head Teacher of Aramoko District Commercial Secondary
School at Aramoko-Ekiti, Chief Francis Daramola
and an Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) expert, Dr Babatope Agbeyo. Only Daramola was present to be decorated among
the honourees; the rest were represented. The university set up an Endowment Fund for
capital projects, such as roads, lecture theatres,
lecture rooms, faculty buildings, sports centres,
laboratories, hostels, utility vehicles to facilitate
learning and research. The endowment fund is shopping for N30 billion to
be raised over five years to execute the projects. The Attah promised to live up to expectation and
justify the confidence reposed in him by the Visitor,
President Muhammadu Buhari. The monarch, who is also the President of Kogi
State Council of Traditional Rulers, urged the
Federal Government to inject more funds into
universities to compete favourably with their peers
around the world. The Vice Chancellor, Prof Kayode Soremekun,
expressed satisfaction that FUOYE had grown since
it admitted the first set of students in 2012. He said the university, which had three faculties and
29 programmes at inception, now has seven
faculties and 49 programmes. Soremekun said the university had improved on
the Webometric ranking and the National
Universities Commission (NUC) ranking, which rated
it as the first among the newly-created federal
universities and 14th best in Nigeria.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/attah-igala-made-fuoyes-chancellor/