As part of efforts to give their undergraduates international exposure, Chamberlain University in the United States of America and Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) have entered into partnership for exchange programmes in Nursing Science.
This was as the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) Tuesday inducted 43 ABUAD’s first graduates from the Department of Nursing Science.
Speaking at the induction ceremony held in ABUAD on Tuesday, its founder, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), said the partnership with the US university will add international flavour to nursing certificates acquired from the university.
Babalola gave N1.5 million to the best graduating student from the department to serve as impetus to others to be dedicated in their academic pursuits.
He said he was quite pleased with the 97 per cent pass mark recorded by the students, which came barely one week after the first set of medical students were inducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
“When I looked at the Nursing performance, it was 97 per cent, which was the highest ever scored by any university in nursing examination in Nigeria. But what I expected was 100 per cent because you are being trained here to lead others.
“The mission behind the establishment of ABUAD is to correct the perceived ills in the education sector. That is why we have entered into partnership with universities in South Africa, US and other advanced climes for exchange programmes
“We are not only grooming our gradates to be of excellence in Nigeria, but across the globe,” he said.
The Registrar of the Nursing Council of Nigeria, Alhaji Umar Faruk, affirmed that the ABUAD Nursing Department is one of the best in Nigeria.
