BY IKENNA ASOMBA

Babcock University, Ilesan-Remo, Ogun State, will hold its 12th Convocation ceremony, June 3, 2012. For the first time in the institution’s history, the School of Post-graduate Studies which began in 2010, will be presenting 60 candidates for the award of the Master’s degree, 20 others for the Doctor of Philosophy, including 1,476 graduates.

Meanwhile, on June 1, the university will inaugurate its College of Medicine, Benjamin S. Carson School of Medicine. According to the Senior Vice-President/Provost of the College, Prof. Iheanyi Okoro, the inauguration will mark the climax of the institution’s zeal for world class health care in the country and indeed, the continent.

He further stated that this passion accounts for the choice of the naming of the school after renowned American paediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Carson (Snr.), who will be the guest speaker of the day.

“The Ben Carson Medical School is designed to honour him as a role model to the students of the school,” adding, “a doctor without competence is a murderer.”

The event will attract top leaders, captains of industry, international researchers and professionals within and outside the country.

Already, the 140-bed Teaching Hospital with Anatomy and Pathology laboratories are ready, including a Radio Diagnostic laboratory with the MRI-CT ahead of the inauguration.