Founder and Chancellor, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo, has called on African nations to evolve sustainable growth and development in agriculture to move the continent out of poverty, saying poverty among black race was a product of unused brain capacity to fashion out solutions.
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| Bishop David Oyedepo [photo credit: vanguard]
Bishop Oyedepo spoke during the third convocation of the university in Omu-Aran. A total number of 51 graduates bagged First Class; 233, Second Class Upper; 229, Second Class Lower, while 19 were in Third Class division out of a grand total of 532 graduating students.
Bishop Oyedepo, who also said that there was no united nations anywhere, but comity of nations, stressed that knowledge was the new currency of the world and application of knowledge would bring about desired changes in the society. He said: “Human beings are created with equal capacity. They are created with equal brain cells and body system; equal destiny and equal opportunities.”
In his keynote address, the pioneer Vice Chancellor, Michael Okpara (Federal) University of Agriculture, Umudike, Professor Placid Njoku, said Federal Government, through the Ministry of Education, should direct the National Universities Commission, NUC; National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, and the National Commission for Colleges of Education, NCCE, to “totally revise their curriculum for agriculture to formally integrate entrepreneurship and approve ‘Agripreneurship’.
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Source: vanguard
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