Crescent University Abeokuta ranked among universities with 100% performance in NUC accreditation – Idris Katib
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
The Crescent University Abeokuta, an Africa’s growing Islamic university widely recognised as citadel of moral and academic excellence, is one of few universities in Nigeria that achieved 100 percent performance in their courses during the last accreditation by National University Commission (NUC).
Public Relations Manger of the university, Mr. Idris Katib, disclosed this while featuring on Ogun State Television (OGTV) programme themed, “Assessing the impact of public relations in the year 2021”.
Katib started by liking public relations to medicine and its practitioners to medical doctors.
On the programme named ‘Your Image’ and anchored by the Chief Executive Officer, PR Primus, Mr Akin Okudero, the Crescent University image maker featured with two other stakeholders in the public relations sector namely Mr Dyke Ogbonnaya, Head of Public Relations, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ogun State Command, Mr Peter Oyeneye, who is Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Management Academy, Abuja.
Asked how public relations had impacted the education sector of the economy in the just ended year, Katib said, “Public Relations is like medicine and its practitioner is like medical doctor. When doctor prescribes medicine for instance malaria drug of 2-2-1 and it is strictly adhered to in application based on prescriptions, there will be good results.”
The application of management strategies based on public relations prescriptions well adhered to, accordingly, always brings desired output. That, he said, was what happened especially in Crescent University Abeokuta during the year 2021.
“Recently, National Universities Commission (NUC) released certain information regarding universities that had 100 percent performance in the accreditation of their courses and Crescent University Abeokuta happened to be one of those universities. So, public relations had done well in that sector,” he said.
Asked to throw more light on strategies prescribed by public relations and applied by Crescent University that led to its achievement of 100 percent performance in NUC accreditation, Idris Katib listed quality control, quality of staff and how well the products of the university have been doing in the job market as focus of National Universities Commission (NUC) that he, enthusiastically, noted was met by Crescent University to earning the NUC top ranking.
The DEFENDER reports that Crescent University Abeokuta’s graduated students have indisputably been competitively demanded in the job market, especially at the global scene mainly UK, base of BBC with some in Switzerland among others.
Successes of the university are said to be the accepted prayers of the founder, Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), who established the university 17 years ago to be an institution for the production of leaders, who will not steal public funds not misappropriate national resources but do well to society and humanity.
Prince Ajibola, corroborated by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibraheem Gbajabiamila, and Head of Mass Communications Department and Chairman Admissions Committee, Dr. Kola Adesina, had insisted that Crescent University must be focused on producing morally upright students who will still be excellent in academic performance, rather than to merely push out brilliant beasts into the society.
