This is the voice of the Vice-Chancellor, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem written down, in an interview, he speaks on the nation’s university system, especially with regard to the ongoing strike embarked upon by lecturers in public universities;
How has the journey been at the Al-Hikmah University?
I am grateful to God that things are working out well in the university. Just last Saturday, we had our third convocation. We graduated 506 students and 14 of them had First Class, while 124 of them obtained Second Class Upper Division. From a population of about 70 students at inception in 2005/2006 academic session, the school has grown to 3,420 students currently.
The first convocation we had was two years ago and it was a combination of three sets where we graduated 454 students.
Last year, we graduated only one set and this third set. I thank God because the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities would have affected it..
