SPECIAL REPORT: Osun Govt Sponsored Medical Students To Ukraine
Medical Students of the Osun State University UNIOSUN who were sponsored by the State Government of Osun to complete their medical course in Ukraine on Saturday night returned to Nigeria.
They were received at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by a high powered delegation of the state government led by the state commissioner for Innovative, Science & Technology, Engr Remi Omowaiye.
The students where one of them, Miss Lateefat Oyeniyi led the whole institution in Kharazviv, Ukraine are expected to meet Governor Rauf Aregbesola at a grand reception organized by the state for them on Sunday evening at the Government House, Osogbo.
The State Deputy Governor, Mrs Titi Laoye Tomori as well as the Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology, Engr Remi Omowaye were part of the delegation, the state government sent to their graduation ceremony which held few months ago.
Fifty of the 85 students of Osun State University were sent to Ukraine varsity to complete their medical studies by the Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration in 2013 as a result of non-availability of a teaching hospital for their clinical studies.
It would be recalled that in 2010, when Governor Rauf Aregbesola came on board, he decided to fully sponsor the 85 students that belonged to two different sets, to complete their Medical studies at the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.
