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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State.
Speaking while accepting the honorary doctorate degree, Dr. Onu commended the university for her entrepreneurial studies.
The Minister noted that the university had come up with programmes aimed at improving the entrepreneurial capacity and capability of the youths.
Dr. Onu challenged youths to take the bull by the horn and explore opportunities made available to them by president Muhammadu Buhari to develop themselves.
He enumerated some of the interventionist programmes aimed at improving the lots of the youths and urged them to key into those programs.
He thanked the institution for the honour done to him and said the honorary doctorate degree would ginger him more to serve mankind.
Speaking at the convocation ceremony attended virtually attended by Israel’s ambassador to Nigeria, Shimon Ben-Shoshan,the chancellor of the university, Professor Gregory Ibe urge the Academic Staff Union of University ASUU,to call off their strike in the interest of millions of Nigerian Youths that are in federal and state universities in Nigeria.
He called on ASUU and the government to settle their differences, while urging the government at federal and state levels to go into partnership with private investors.
The chancellor congratulated the scholars and urged them to be good representatives of the school wherever they find themselves.
During the convocation, 75 scholars graduated, with six having first degree.
