Cosmopolitan University has advocated a policy for routine drug test on students before and after their admission into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.
The Registrar of Cosmopolitan University, Dr. Mani Ibrahim, made these known during the university’s Open House program held in Abuja on Thursday, saying it will ascertain the mental health of students.
The University is one of the 36 newly licensed private universities by Nigeria’s National Universities Commission
According to the Registrar, the university prioritises students’ safety as it develops proper surveillance systems around the school to monitor their conducts and activities.
Ibrahim said this would curb moral decadence in the society, “We are in the process of developing our drug policy which will allow every student coming into the university to go through drug screening.
”We are going to work with parents and the community to carry out this so that we can ensure a free drug society,” he said.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Carl Adams, said that the vision of the university is to integrate entrepreneurship and innovation thereby encouraging partnerships between businesses, professions, innovators and other academic organisations.
He also said that students would be placed to be academic, business, industry and thought as leaders of the future.
According to him, “If we want this to be the best place for students, everything we do here is top quality learning activity we want to support students to be the best they can be not compromising quality.
”In education, we want to gain international footprint, international expertise, looking at the best in the world. So the idea is that why send somebody to London, Berlin or New York to get an international good quality experience, when we can have it here.
”And we want to keep those students here to develop them. We want our students to be the thought leaders, the thought leaders not just in Nigeria but at the world.
”We are making our students at the forefront of technological thinking not as just looking at technology but engage with them so they are able to understand, analyse, evaluate the technology and apply it to real world problems,” he said.
He said the university would be collaborating with local and foreign businesses to grow students potentials in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research and businesses.
Staff Recruitment
When asked how the university sort for its academic staff, the vice chancellor said that the university would choose lecturers from both local and international sources.
”We are bringing in staff who are again at a variety of levels. We want motivated staff, good staff that can really take forward that learning experience for the students.
”We want staff who expertise and very knowledgeable in their professional area. Those pushing the boundaries with research, professional practice, so we give them space to develop,” he added.
The Cosmopolitan University, Abuja says it is kick-starting academic activities on 16th of September in 16 programmes and three faculties.
Academic Programs
The programmes to be run by the university includes: Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Entrepreneurship, International Relations and Criminology and Security Studies.
Others are Health Information Systems, Nursing Science, Public Health, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems and Software Engineering.
On the list of the programmes are also Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering
The University which is 100 per cent Nigerian, is owned by Prof. Ibrahim Katampe, founder, Iyatech Laboratories, USA, an innovative Research and Development company with focus on the development and commercialisation of eco-chemical technologies.
