Covenant University, the leading private university in Africa, has also emerged the winner of the “Best Use of Technology Award” among its peers in Nigeria. The university received the award at the 2nd Nigeria Technology Awards held in Lagos recently.
The award ceremony, according to the organisers, Technology Avenue, a leading technology multimedia, events and entertainment management company, was to recognise, celebrate and reward technology entrepreneurs, innovators, academicians, inventors and policy makers in Nigeria.
Covenant University came out tops among other nominees in the education category, which included American University of Nigeria, Babcock University, Igbinedion University and Pan-Atlantic University. While receiving the award on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA Atayero, the Director, ViceChancellor’s office, Dr. David Omole, informed the audience that the university was glad to be recognised for its commitment to revolutionise the education system in Africa. “We have been in this business in the past 14 years and we are still waxing strong,” he stated.
The university, among others, was awarded the Centenary ICT Driven University of the Year in 2014, the Overall Best University in Nigeria and West Africa and number 15 in Africa on the Webometric Ranking (February 2015) as well as African Private University of the Year (2015) by African Leadership Magazine Group in March this year.
In another development, one of the graduates of the university, Mr. Oti Ebubechukwu, has developed an Information Communication Technology Centre in a secondary school in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The ICT facility was set up with the support of one of the world’s leading ICT solution provider, Huawei. The Chinese telecoms equipment giant, it was disclosed, had provided Internet-enabled desktops, a projector system, 3-in-1 laser copier system and air conditioner. Mr. Oti, a graduate of Electrical/ Electronic Engineering and Covenant University’s best graduating student in the 2014/2015 academic session with a 4.96 CGPA, got Huawei to sponsor his initiative, which now allows students to have easy access to computers and the Internet-handy tools for learning and to carry out their examination registration.
The idea of setting up an ICT Centre in the secondary school, said Oti, was birthed during his National Youth Service Corps year, when he served as the Project Manager, Education and Environmental Sanitation of his Community Development Service.
