The Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Lilian Salami, has expressed her determination to ensure quality learning in the institution.
Salami expressed her resolve at a news conference to give account of her stewardship in her first year in office on Wednesday in Benin.
The vice chancellor said she would develop environmental values and ethical orientation that would impact positively on students.
She said that the present university administration had continued to increase talent and capital development, enable quality academic programmes and enhance welfare and security of staff.
She said in spite of the prevailing operational and financial limitations in the face of COVID-19 pandemic, it had worked committedly to devise and deploy alternative means to set its goals positively in motion.
“In the last one year, we have worked tirelessly to rewrite the narrative of the university by matching our words with actions against all odds.
“We have remained focused and determined to make a difference in the life of this great university.
“To ensure the comfort of our students, the administration, in the first month of coming on stream, began the remedial renovation of all the students’ hostels which before now, were hardly habitable.
“Luck then smiled on the university, when the Edo State Government graciously undertook the renovation of the hostels on a massive scale,” she said.