Cherubim And Seraphim Church To Establish University At Omu Aran, Kwara

The proposed university(Moses Orimolade University) was being
spearheaded and would be financed by the C&S Movement Church
Worldwide. Adeoti described the church’s intervention in education
sectors as very timely, saying the current tertiary institutions in the
country, especially universities, were inadequate.

He said
that they could not match the exponential growth of the country’s
population. According to him, there is the urgent need for religious
organisations and well-meaning individuals and groups to complement
government’s efforts through massive investment in the education sector.
The monarch advised the C&S Church leaders to consider making the
proposed institution a specialised university for ease of acquisition of
its official licence from the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The
monarch expressed the community’s appreciation to the church’s
authorities for the honour and recognition of locating the institution
in their town. He said: “Though C&S church members are happy today,
but the entire community members of Omu-Aran are happier that this is
happening in our town. “There is no doubt that the existing number of
universities in the country cannot match the explosion in the population
of Nigerians. “I promise you all here that my chiefs and I will
continue to monitor the progress of work for its speedy completion,” he
said. Pastor Thomas Fakile, the Chairman Planning Committee of the
proposed university, said that the project was informed by the desire to
address the inadequate institutions in the country.

“The
issue is that in the next 15 years, the population of Nigeria is likely
to double its present population according to the United Nations (UN)
statistics. “If the universities do not grow correspondingly with the
population, it means we will have problems in the education sector,” he
said. Rev. Samuel Abidoye, the Spiritual Leader of the church, said that
the church would channel its available resources toward an accelerated
completion of the project. He added that the church would spend about
N300 million on the college’s building project that would last 18 months
to complete. (NAN)