Professor Odunayo Clement Adebooye, Vice Chancellor, Osun State University, (UNIOSUN), has counseled graduating Nurses of the institution on the need to prioritize serving humanity in their country over pursuit of proverbial greener pastures overseas.
Adebooye made the counsel on Friday at the 4th induction/Oath taking ceremony of registered nurses of the institution in Osogbo, Osun state capital. He appealed to the inducted nurses to give back to Nigeria that is in dare need of their services and expertise.
According to the Vice Chancellor: “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.
“But I must also let you know that God did not create you here for no purpose. 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.
“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”.
One of the inductee that spoke to Theliberationnews, Miss Blessing Adejobi, expressed gratitude to God while giving assurance of her resolve to serve her country.
Blessing Adejobi corroborated her vice chancellor’s plea for increase in the quota approved for UNIOSUN noting that there are many qualified candidates seeking admission to study Nursing across the country.
