Nigerians outnumber Ghanians at Accra Institute of Technology

Mr. Boagye Dominic, Executive Manager, Admissions and Operations, Accra Institute of Technology, Ghana, has urged Nigerians who desire university education to embrace open and distance learning to realise their dreams, rather than waiting endlessly for admission into conventional institutions.

 Boagye, who spoke with journalists in Lagos after intimating higher education enthusiasts with the open and distance learning education option of AIT, added that 60% of undergraduates in the Ghana-based institution are Nigerians.

 Nigerian students in AIT, he said, are among the best in the institution. “Nigerians are very brilliant people.

 He also said that in the last two or more convocations we have had, Nigerians emerged the best graduating students.

 “We are aware of the huge number of Nigerians who desire university education are being hampered by low carrying capacity of the country’s university system.

 “I implore them to embrace the open distance learning option to realise their dreams.

 AIT has a very functional and globally recognised ODL scheme that is capable of helping them and Africans in general to realise their university education ambition,” he said.

 Boagye added that though the university, fashioned after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America has a robust conventional academic programmes for undergraduates, its ODL also provides students with unlimited opportunities to be the best they could be.

 Asked how many Nigerians are undergoing undergraduate programmes in the university, Boagye said that though there were a lot of Nigerians in universities across Ghana, about 60 per cent of regular students in AIT are Nigerians.

 “There are a lot of Nigerians in Ghana universities, but I don’t know how many they are; but in AIT, I can tell you that about 60 per cent of our students are Nigerians.

 You know, Nigerians are hard-working people who love education. They will go anywhere to get quality education and they are in AIT because they know that they are getting the best there,” he said.

 He noted that because of the large number of Nigerians in the institution, the management had secured a working relationship with the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana.