Salem University targets brilliance as screening of 2024/2025 candidates begins – VC

By Obansa Ibrahim, Lokoja

The Vice Chancellor, Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has said that the screening of candidates for admission into Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes for 2024/2025 academic session has begun in earnest with vigilance.

“As a remarkable institution, we are targeting brilliance and competency during the screening as part of our drive to produce Global/Leaders and Change Agents that would create impact across the world, ” the VC disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday.

The VC, who said that the screening commenced August 12, warned candidates against presentation of fake certificates and results, which he would not be tolerated.

Johnson-Akubo said, “there is no room for compromise when it comes to admission of Undergraduate and Post Graduate students into various courses being run by our six colleges.”

The colleges, he said, include College of Law, College of Humanities, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, College of Education, College of Information and Communication Technology and College of Management and Social Sciences as well as the College of Graduate Studies and the Pre-Varsity school.

The VC disclosed that seven new programmes were ready for verification by the National Universities Commission (NUC) very soon.

According to him, the programmes include: Anatomy, physiology, Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science and Public Health in the College of Basic Health and Allied Sciences, Cybersecurity and Data Science in the College of Information and Communications Technology.

“Salem University is aimed at producing graduates who are mentally alert, Spiritually alive and intellectually developed to change their world positively.

“Our academic programmes are fully accredited by NUC and carefully designed to meet industry and professional needs and the challenges of job placements in the labour market

“Earning a degree at Salem University is a better way to kick Start your professional and career journey in life without hassles.

“We have provided modern and reasonable recreational and standard hostel facilities which help to make learning fun and rewarding experience, ” he said.