Tony John, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has approved automatic employment for Rivers State indigenes who bagged Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) during the 2018 convocation ceremony of the Rivers State University.
Wike also approved automatic scholarship for all the 25 Rivers indigenes who bagged First Class Degrees during the 2018 convocation ceremony of the university.
Addressing the 2018 convocation ceremony of the university, in Port Harcourt, yesterday, Wike announced scholarship to Rivers indigenes admitted to study medicine in any recognised university in Nigeria.
Wike said: “I have approved the immediate restoration of the multi-campus status of the Rivers State University.
“I direct the university to immediately proceed with arrangements to establish a campus of two faculties in Ahoada. The state government will complete the abandoned mega secondary school in Emohua Local Government Area and donate it to the university to establish the appropriate faculty to provide more educational opportunities for the development of our young ones.”
The governor said Rivers university occupies a strategic position in the priority list of his administration and noted that efforts to grow the institution would be sustained.
Wike said the state government will act decisively on the issues of admission racketeering and sorting by some staff of the institution.
While congratulating all graduating students, Wike urged them to apply the knowledge gained from the institution to attain success in all their future endeavours. “Our responsibility as a government is to support the university to grow from strength to strength,” he said. He announced the approval of the Harmonised University Salaries Structure as obtainable for state universities for the institution.
The Pro-Chancellor, Justice Iche Ndu (rtd), assured that the university will continue to build on well set priorities of moral discipline and rectitude, as well as maintaining the best quality of academic and non-academic staff.