UNIOSUN inducts 65 Nursing graduates
…Urges inductees to rejuvenate Nigeria through their profession
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
The Vice-chancellor of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Professor Odunayo Adebooye has urged newly inducted nurses of the institution to demonstrate commitment to national reconstruction and rejuvenation of Nigeria through their profession.
Professor Adebooye made this known at the 4th Induction / Oath Taking Ceremony of registered nurses of the Department OF Nursing Science, Osun State University, Osogbo.
Addressing the 65 inductees , the Uniosun VC said “If I ask you what your next aspiration is, I am sure all of you will chorus ‘Ja-pa,’ meaning this degree has given you a ticket to jet out of the country for supposedly “greener pastures.”
He enjoined the inductees not to join those who believe Nigeria is beyond redemption saying, “If we all keep saying Nigeria is bad, Nigeria is bad, then who are those people that will make Nigeria good?
“I have come to realise that money does not make everything in life. There is a time for genuine assistance, a time for show of love and a time for commitment to national reconstruction and rejuvenation.
“Nigeria needs more nurses and medical professionals. Uniosun is trying its best to fill this dearth of nursing professionals in the country.
“But it will only take a high level of personal reorientation to keep our nurses back home to help Nigeria.
“I therefore appeal to you all as inductees of today to have hope and faith in this country; and to prioritise the need to give back to the nation that has licensed you to prosper as nursing professionals.
“This you can do, by staying back to help our helpless patients in their thousands who need more care, more kindness and more medics to give them hope.”
Earlier in his opening remark, Provost of the Uniosun College of Health Science, Professor Christopher Alebiosu urged the inductees to ensure that they allow peace in the hospitals that they will be working.
He also charged them to be a good ambassador of their institution adding that they should also give back to the college that produced them.
