University mass choir set for first official performance

After weeks of rehearsals, the University Choir of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, is set to perform at its first official event, the 12th inaugural lecture of LAUTECH. Speaking with the director of the University Choir, Mr Akin Odesola noted that the interreligious choir made up of Muslims and Christians who are members of the Ladoke Akintola university of technology community: staffs and students, is set for its first public performance. Just this semester, the rain semester of the 2012/2013 session the university choir presented to the university top management team a new university anthem to replace the old anthem which was for the student union, and had words that weren’t representing the core values of the university.

As over 35,000 students look forward to the first performance of the university choir a feat that hasn’t been achieved in 23 years, the vice chancellor Prof Sulaiman Gbadegesin promised to ensure that the choirs do not just perform at the convocation of the University scheduled for next month, but also at all public events of the university as being initiated by performing at the inaugural lecture series 12, by Prof. Taiwo Adegboyega Adewole a Professor of chemical pathology. Scheduled for Thursday 17th of April 2014, and themed “from DNA to molecular diagnosis : the future of the past in the Nigerian contemporary medical practice.

It however must be noted that LAUTECH being a university of technology, has no department of music or classical studies, and makes the choir a group of students and staffs who are ready to give back to their society. As rehearsals continue, and musicals instruments keep rolling in, students, staffs of the Educational society are anticipating the ground performance.