By Fatima Mohammed-Lawal
The Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) on Wednesday matriculated 16 students for degree programmes on Industrial Relations and Personnel Management.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the degree programmes in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management is affiliated to the University of Ilorin.
Speaking at the matriculation ceremony, the Acting Director General of the Institute, Mr. Ezekiel Ayorinde urged the students of the institute to be hardworking in their academic pursuits.
Ayorinde counselled the students to be dedicated to their studies so as to realize their personal aspirations for a better life.
“You all represent the future aspirations of this great country to become the leading black nation and reference point among the comity of nations for industrial and economic development.”he added .
He also noted that the labour institute will continue to provide the graduates of the programme the needed opportunity to contribute their quotas as future workers.
According to him, the programme aims to provide needed higher quality manpower with sound grasp and understanding of the theories underpinning trade unionism and industrial relations as veritable instruments for nation building.
Also speaking, the Head of Academics and Distance Learning Programme Department of MINILS, Dr Adamadu Silvanus explained that this new strategic direction of the institute comes with prospects to promote labour education.
He explained that students would be engaged and offered rare opportunities to understand emerging concepts, theories and practices with bearings on people management in the new world of work.
The representative of the Vice Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. Yahaya Imam, a Lecturer at the University urged the students to see themselves as also part of the Unilorin community.
“You are only on MINILS compound, you’re students of university of Ilorin.” he stressed.
Imam also admonished the students to be very hardworking, and shun any acts of malpractice, like sagging,and other forms of indecent dressings.