Edo South Senator Imasuen Reiterates Senate’s Commitment To Varsity Funding

The chairman, Senate Committee connected Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition, Senator Neda Imasuen, has reiterated the National Assembly’s committedness to improving University funding, safeguarding world state and bridging the spread betwixt cognition and industry.

Imasuen, who represents Edo South, stated this astatine a two-day aureate jubilee of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), wherever helium was honoured with the Distinguished Legislative Leadership Award.

The juncture besides provided a level for reflection connected the Faculty’s 5 decades of world excellence, taste influence, and alumni interaction portion besides charting a people for its future

The lawmaker was represented astatine the lawsuit by erstwhile Edo State Commissioner for Transport, Hon. Orobosa Omo-Ojo, who utilized the juncture to item Senator Imasuen’s publication to acquisition successful Edo South senatorial district.

“Our state needs much than degrees—it needs occupation solvers, ethical leaders, and courageous citizens,” helium said. “Education is not conscionable astir acquiring certificates; it is astir gathering resilience, character, and responsibility.”

Highlighting his contributions to acquisition successful Edo South, Omo-ojo disclosed that Senator Neda Imaseun has awarded implicit 420 scholarships successful the past 2 years, including 2 students successful UNIBEN’s Music and Educational Management departments.

He added that his bureau had covered UTME fees for much than 500 students, portion besides introducing vocational grooming programmes for parents successful skills specified arsenic modern farming, manner design, and accepted lawsuit services.

He further pledged enactment for President Bola Tinubu’s Students Loan Act, describing it arsenic a captious measurement successful widening entree to higher education.

In addition, helium announced plans to bid 350 youths successful bound information and committed to rebuilding the Faculty of Arts Lecture Theatre arsenic portion of his constituency projects.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor Edosa Bright Omoregie, represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics), Professor Victor Ighineweka, described the Faculty arsenic “a beacon of intellectual, taste and humanistic development”, whose alumni person shaped Nigeria’s academic, artistic, and governmental landscapes.

Delivering the keynote lecture, Professor Francis Egbokhare addressed the taxable “The Place of Humanity successful an AI Era.”

He dismissed fears of Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacing quality potential, stressing alternatively that the world’s top challenges stay “humanistic, not scientific.” He argued that issues of values, equity, leadership, and intent cannot beryllium resolved by exertion but by human-centred thinking.