RSUST To Honour David Mark, Lulu Briggs

The Senate President, Chief David Mark and High Chief O. B. Lulu Briggs, are to be conferred with Honorary Degrees by the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) at its forthcoming combined convocation ceremony.

The Vice Chancellor of  the University, Professor Barineme Fakae who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt also said that twenty two thousand students are to be presented with certificates during the ceremony.

The students, according to him, are those from 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, and 2008/2010 academic sessions

He said that as part of activities marking the event, the university had scheduled a convocation lecture entitled “Challenges of  Nation Building: Empowerment, Expectation and Entitlement”  to be delivered by Nigeria’s immediate past Foreign Affairs Minister,  Hon. Odein Ajumogobia.

The vice chancellor said that the institution was working hard to ensure not only the success of the forth-coming ceremony but ensure that convocation becomes a regular feature of the university activities, stressing that it was against this background that the institution had scheduled ahead of time, the 2012 convocation which holds on the 31st of  March, 2012.

Prof. Fakae further said that the management would not be distracted by the antics of detractors in its bid to reposition the institution as the premier Science and Technology University in the country.

He also urged all graduands to adhere to the directive as announced by the university registrar.