AS MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (MLSCN) VISITS GLORIOUS VISION UNIVERSITY.
By Igbotako Nowinta
The Vice – Chancellor, Glorious Vision University (GVU), Ogwa, Edo State, Nigeria, Prof. Ezekiel S. Asemah, has vowed that he would provide everything needed for the smooth running of the Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science at the university.
Prof. Asemah made the promise on March 25th, 2025, at Ogwa, when the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) visited Glorious Vision University, Ogwa, for resource verification to kickstart Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (B.MLS).
The erudite scholar cum administrator said
that Glorious Vision University was committed to achieving academic excellence as evident in the recent world ranking by AD Scientific, where GVU was ranked 9th among the 120 private universities in Nigeria.
According to the Vice – Chancellor :” l welcome your team to the university and thank God for the safe trip granted to you all from your destinations to the university. We thank you for coming to add value to Glorious Vision University. The Glorious Vision University is still growing and one of the ways to grow a university is to run more programmes. It is on this basis that the university has decided to introduce more programmes and Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science is one of them”.
Responding to the Vice Chancellor’s remarks, Dr. Godwin Aikpitanyi, the team leader, who spoke on behalf of the team, thanked the VC for the warm reception they received upon arrival on Monday, 24th of March 2025. He commended the VC for initiating the call for the establishment of the Medical Laboratory Science programme in the university, adding that the bold step will add value to the institution.
Dr. Godwin Aikpitanyi also noted that the whole essence of the exercise was to assess the human and material resources available for the smooth running of the programme that the university applied to the Council for.
The team arrived at the university on Tuesday, the 25th of March 2025, to inspect both human and material resources on ground to run the programme. The 4-man team, was led by the Deputy Registrar who doubles as the Director of Education, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria; the team inspected the university library, classrooms, offices, the university environment, laboratories, list of staff, (both teaching and non teaching), proposed teaching hospital (Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital), among others.
On Wednesday, 26th March, 2025, the team returned to the Vice Chancellor ‘s office to present their exit report. The team commended the university’s readiness to commence Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science, but, however, advised that more equipments should be added to the ones already bought as the students progress to higher levels.