The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has hailed the establishment of Hillside University of Science and Technology.
Governor Oyebanji in a message delivered on his behalf by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Habibat Adubiaro during the inauguration of the Hillside university at Okemesi-Ekiti on Tuesday described the establishment of the private university as a landmark achievement not only in Ekiti, Nigeria and Africa but the whole world. He remarked further that the university with its enriched academic and professional integrated undergraduate/postgraduate STEAM curriculum in science/security, Technology/Engineering, Education/vocational, Agribusiness/Environment and Medicine/management disciplines will help to arrest and reverse the mass exodus of direly needed skilled Healthcare and technology professionals.
The Governor also disclosed at the inauguration of the private varsity that his administration has recorded feat in the Public-Private-Partnership arena Memorandum Of Understanding(MOU) signed by the state government of Ekiti state for ten General and Specialist Hospitals under the jurisdiction of Ekiti state Management Board with a total capacity of 762 beds to collaborate with tristate College of Health and Medical sciences of the University, for the clinical training of doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and other allied heath professionals.
“Today goes down as a landmark achievement not only in Ekiti state, Nigeria and Africa but the world as a whole, taking into cognizance the undisputed role of Ekiti State as the historical brain-box, Central Bank of knowledge in Nigeria and the distinction diaspora Nigerians have attained by their intellectual and professional contributions to international commerce, the heathcare industry and other critical spheres of global economy in the past fifty years. It is not now, nor could it ever have been a happenstance but divine providence, that Hillside University Science and Technology highly
enriched academic and professional integrated undergraduate/postgraduate STEAM curriculum in science/security, Technology/Engineering, Education/vocational, Agribusiness/Environment and Medicine/management disciplines, gifted to Nigeria in its hour or critical JAPA need, to arrest and reverse the mass exodus of direly needed skilled healthcare and technology professionals.
“True to its mandate and social contract fulfillment with the Ekiti State people, this Administration has belled the cat in the Public-Private-Partnership arena by approving a Memorandum Of Understanding(MOU) signed by the Government of Ekiti State, for ten General and Specialist Hospitals under the jurisdiction of Ekiti Hospitals Management Board with a total capacity of 762 beds, to collaborate with the Tristate College of Health and Medical sciences of the University, for the clinical training of doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists and other allied professionals”
Governor Oyebanji congratulated the Founder of the University, Mr Joseph Olaoye Jaiyeola for deeming it fit to erect such a gigantic structure in Ekiti.
“We therefore congratulate the Founder of the University, Mr Joseph Olaoye Jaiyeola whose relentless efforts and irrevocable commitment to excellence in a lifelong corporate career has brought back home, a long desired and cherished Golden fleece”