Government’s dream and visions no matter how well conceived and how well funded, could become a mirage if wrong and un-suitable human elements, especially at the leadership strata are placed in the driver’s seat. Such failed dreams of government in the area of projects, infrastructure and institutions, are found in their hundreds all over Nigeria, today.
In the same vein, there exist several hundred others that today have not only vindicated government’s wisdom to dream, but are making government proud and challenged to further dream. The Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), is certainly one of such products of federal government’s dream that fell on a fertile land in terms of hiring suitable midwives which today is not only a success story but a standard and example being cited by all.
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Published 14 March 2021
Published 14 March 2021
The immediate past Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti and international relations expert, Prof Kayode Soremekun, speaks to
ALEXANDER OKERE and TOBI AWORINDE
about Nigeria’s foreign policy and the change of leadership in the United States, among other sundry issues
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have just ended an eventful tenure as the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Can you share your experience with us?
I was the Vice Chancellor after Prof Chinedu Nebo, who was actually the pioneer VC and Prof Isaac Asuzu. Between them, they shared five-year tenure because Prof Nebo was appointed as the Minister of Power by President Goodluck Jonathan. Having said that, what really occurred was that I was only saddled with the mere pioneer status in view of what we had to do. When I got there, the place was almost like a desiccated landscape, and in saying this, I am not