At least thirty-five students from the London Training Centre, who have successfully completed a year academic course in various fields of study, graduated last Saturday.  A colourful ceremony was held, on the occasion, at the Manjai Lodge to consecrate the school's third event of its kind.

Speaking at the occasion, Chief U.K Emezi Mbaise, Director of the London Training Centre, said his institution started with only one classroom business training centre in London Corner, Serrekunda. But, he underlined, with dedication and perspicacity, they were able to tackle the challenges and satisfy the growing demand. He then noted that the centre now offers a wide-ranging courses covering key areas of academic ventures such as information technology and training services.

''At the beginning, we never rested our laurels as we were facing mounting challenges. We have inculcated in our students the permanent quest for excellence, a quality on which we were able to build our good reputation,'' he indicated with a sense of satisfaction.

''Today, a good number of students are graduating in various fields of academic, vocational disciplines of which information technology is no exception, '' he pointed out. According to him, the London Training Centre

From this graduation, we are expanding our training in the areas of accountancy, banking and finance, business administration, public administration, travel, tourism and hospitality, human resource management, as well as social and development studies,'' he revealed.

While urging the graduates to be worthy ambassadors of the training centre, Director Chief U.K applauded the management and staff of the training centre for their selfless service to the institution.

Delivering a lecture on the topic information technology and the financial sector, Oleka Ojiogo of Access Bank, said based on the definition from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), information technology as preferable call IT, is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications, and computer hardware, which, he said deals with the use of software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit and securely retrieve information.

According to him, modern day financial services would not have gone far without IT, noting, for this lie at the heart of every financial services system.

While calling on the financial service providers to invest heavily in information technology, the veteran IT specialist concluded by stating that technology is the key success factor that has led to rapid changes and growth in the financial sector all over the world.