The newly established Muhammad Kamaludeen College (MKU), Ilorin, Kwara State, has matriculated its first set of 146 college students, asserting that the freshers would have the chance of $1,000 startup for the registration of their new corporations to develop their entrepreneurship abilities.
The vice chancellor of the college, Prof. Rasheed Jimoh, stated that the establishment had developed an progressive course that might equip the brand new college students with MKU’s startup of over $1,000 USD even earlier than registration of their proposed corporations.
He stated the college has launched initiatives that can equip the scholars for crucial pondering to allow them address world competitiveness, particularly within the rising gig economic system.
The Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, was represented on the occasion by his senior adviser/counselor, Alh Saadu Salahu, who was supported by a non-executive director of NNPCL, Dr Ghali Alaaya; particular adviser on Media, Alh. Bashir Adigun, and senior particular assistant on Faith (Islam), Alh. Ibrahim Danmaigoro.
The vice chancellor added: “Certainly one of such initiatives was the event of progressive programs reminiscent of MKU-GS 112 – Initiative pondering and thought creation, purposely to equip our college students proper from their first semester with mandatory entrepreneurship and progressive abilities for seamless navigation of rising gig economic system.
“As a follow-up to this course, the college shall facilitate registration of startup corporations for the chosen viable concepts generated by groups of scholars by way of Company Affairs Fee (CAC) and help the startup to scale by way of investments within the corporations. The objective is to realize MKU’s startup with over 1000 USD earlier than registration. The administration engaged an skilled outdoors Nigeria to show this course.”
Prof. Jimoh stated the college had taken off with 15 tutorial programmes permitted by the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC), assuring that by October this yr, one other set of scholars will likely be admitted for extra new programmes.
The matriculation ceremony additionally featured the investiture of the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, because the Chancellor of the College and Prof. Shuaib AbdulRaheem because the Professional-chancellor of the college.
In his remarks, the chancellor of the college, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, urged these searching for college admission to reap the benefits of the distinctiveness of MKU.
The monarch paid glowing tribute to the founding father of Ansarul Islam Society of Nigeria, the late Sheikh Muhammad Kamaldeen Al-Adabbiy, for fusing Islamic schooling with Western schooling which finally culminated within the institution of MKU in his reminiscence.