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Ekiti Govt Laments Rejection Of Unad Graduates By Banks Dapo Falade, Ado-Ekiti Monday, November 17, 2008 THE Ekiti State govern ment has revealed that majority of graduates from the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD) are being turned down by some banks across the country due to inability to pass the aptitude tests conducted by the financial institutions. advertisement The state Commissioner for Education and Technology, Mrs. Abiola Ayimonche, who made this known in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday at an award ceremony organized by the Federation of Ekiti State Students’ Union (FESSU), however, disclosed that the state government was radically repositioning the institution to curtail the ugly development. Among those honoured at the ceremony was the chairman, Correspondents’ Chapel of the Ekiti State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mallam Yaquob Popoola, who was given the “Journalist of the Year” award. Expressing confidence in the ability of the present administration in the state to redress the situation and put the institution in the right shape in terms of quality graduates, Ayinmonche stressed that the university was capable of producing the best graduates in the country. She said that her belief was predicated on the fact that the state, as “Fountain of Knowledge”, had produced quite an appreciable number of good and valuable human resources as quality lecturers in many of the higher institutions of learning in the country. "The university, according to our expectation, should be the best in the country. It seems as if this hope is been dashed by the activities of some people. But I am quite sure that the situation will change for better. "What really pained me was the way some banks had been rejecting the graduates of the university due to poor performances. it even got to a stagethat the governor himself had to send about 20 graduates of the university for aptitude test and none of them passed,'' she said. Speaking on Ekiti Government and Students Siamese Twins in the Development of Education in the state, Prof Ade Ogunsanya of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, said that the only way the state could rejuvenate the education sector was by carrying the students along and giving them the needed support at all times.