No fewer than 11 scholars of the Nobel International Business School (NiBS) graduated with Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Nigeria after completing their higher degree program.
The graduating students including Dr Ocholi Etu, Dr Bimbo Osuchukwu, Dr Omotayo Adediran, Dr Omotayo Awodiya, Dr Ademola Agboola, Dr Ndubuisi Oti, Dr Olalekan Fawumi, Dr Adebayo Azeez, Dr Felix Ndinemenu, Dr Blessing Ayamhere, and Dr Charles Fashola were all awarded with a Doctorate in Business Administration by Academic Dean, Swiss Business School (SBS), Dr Bert Wolfs, who participated virtually.
In his pre-recorded congratulatory message, Dr Wolfs advised the graduating cohorts to publish their works towards promoting life-long learning and knowledge sharing for the advancement of business and good corporate governance.
‘‘I urge you all to remain humble as possessing a doctorate alone will not make you successful but will present you with different opportunities,’’ Dr Wolfs added in his congratulatory message.
Programme Director for PhD at NiBS, Dr Johnson Okeniyi, in his goodwill message spoke on the exclusivity of programmes offered at the school and also highlighted the uniqueness of the graduates when he noted that it is the first time in the history of any business school in the world where a class started with 11 DBA intakes and ended with 11 graduating students.
He also stated that during the public defense of their thesis which had other students from Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana and other parts of Africa, the DBA contingent from Nigeria stood out in the way and manner in which they defended their thesis.
Okeniyi noted that the NiBS came about as a result of the outcry in Africa over the lack of taking result-oriented decisions.
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He also added that NiBS graduates are certified researchers who can perform better in any field they find themselves as a result of different research projects they have handled during the course of their programme.
President of the graduating cohort in Nigeria, Dr Ocholi Etu, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues said; ‘‘When we started, we were all yearning for more knowledge and if we all had an idea of what the process entailed probably some of us my have backed out.
‘‘But we thank God that we all made the bold move and then COVID-19 came and we had to rejig our learning process by engaging in online lectures via ZOOM especially at weekends and it was quite interesting because you could see your colleagues and sort out whatever issues therein related to our studies for the DBA programme.
“It was quite an interesting journey that stretched us but most of all it afforded us the opportunity to get to know and understand ourselves better and made us take the process more seriously. We traveled together (11 in number) faced panels and wrote comprehensive exams (with no syllabus) together for two days.
“We all also scaled through the gruesome but engaging part of our thesis and I am very proud of my colleagues and I want to thank you all for deeming me fit to be the leader of the group. It has been an honour and this is just the beginning of good things to come.
The NiBS, which has its headquarters in Ghana, is in affiliation with SBS in Zurich, Switzerland, and other institutions in different countries, to equip students and researchers with qualitative teaching, training professionals who help in solving industrial problems towards enhancing national growth.
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