Redeemer’s University, Nigeria’s technology driven private university has commissioned a state-of-the-art multimillion naira information technology (IT) resource centre along kilometre 12 Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State to ensure students and staff have international IT e-business skills certification programmes.
Powered by New Horizons, the largest private IT training institute in the world, the IT resource centre which has 150 HP CPU-Monitor combined computers, intelligent boards, multimedia projectors, networking, software, international IT-E Biz courses/curricula, furniture, UPS, certified instructors, Int’l exams centre, students courseware will help students escape the pervasive graduate unemployment syndrome which is ravaging job market.
The IT resource centre will enable every student irrespective of his or her academic discipline have minimum of four international skills certifications at 90 per cent subsidized rate, before graduation from the university.
It will position them in global software development industry, cash-less economy, e-banking, e-medical/telemedicine, e- government, e-legal administration, oil and gas as well as telecoms sector with attendant employment & self employment opportunities.
Professor Debo Adeyewa, Vice Chancellor, Redeemer’s University who lead the team of academic and non-academic staff of the school after cutting the tape to declare the IT centre open for studies said he was elated by the partnership which has resulted in the IT Resource Centre said. “The university is not only IT compliant, we are IT driven that is why we are collaborating with New Horizons.
“We have informed the parents that for a token their wards should participate in this professionals certifications to make them globally competitive in IT and business skills. Our prayer is that every student will use this IT resource centre to be certified including myself,” he said noting that New Horizons emerged after a rigorous process.
The school is ranked third among private universities and 18th in the Webometric ranking of Nigerian universities.
Tim Akano, chief executive officer, New Horizons Nigeria, who said staff of the university will be trained at the centre for free added that the newly commissioned IT resource centre will help students be global technology entrepreneurs.
“Our focus is to teach your students to build businesses and technology solutions. The students don’t know the world they are going to enter; our job is to give them a future.”
Akano said: “the way out is through information technology. The decision you have taken for the students is the best both for them and their parents who are paying their school fees.”
He noted that many of today’s richest men who are determining the world’s economy were technology entrepreneurs who started their companies from their school dormitories such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple Computers, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, among others.