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281 bag first class, 38 distinction as UNILAG graduates 15,000

By Iyabo Lawal
01 July 2021   |   3:56 am
About 281 graduating students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) will be awarded First Class while 38 others got distinction at the 2018/2019 convocation of the university billed to hold between July 5 and 8.

About 281 graduating students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) will be awarded First Class while 38 others got distinction at the 2018/2019 convocation of the university billed to hold between July 5 and 8.
 
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who disclosed this while addressing journalists on the lined up activities for the event, said about 15,000 will receive their certificates and diplomas during the three-day ceremony.
   
Ogundipe disclosed that the best graduating student, Alimi Adedeji, from the Faculty of Science, led the pack with cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.98.
   
He is followed closely by Miss Victoria Opeyemi Popoola, of the department of economics, faculty of social sciences with a CGPA of 4.90.

   
Mr. Rasheed Olatunji, of the department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, had the overall best Ph.D thesis, while Mr. Peter Ekundayo, from the department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, will be awarded the best Ph.D thesis in the Humanities.
   
This year’s convocation is coming more than a year after an abrupt cancellation of the ceremony. Ogundipe, who used the occasion to reel out the achievements of the school amid the coronavirus pandemic, said the university has attracted more than N18 billion as research grants for academic and non-academic projects.

“UNILAG scholars have continued to raise the bar of research excellence, drawn from across departments and faculties, some scholars recently had their research proposals approved by generous funding with grants from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in different categories. Our researchers also had six patents in 2019 and five in 2020, out of which two in each year have been prototyped,” the vice chancellor stated.
   
Ogundipe said in line with the university’s resolve to ensure that its academic programmes are relevant to the needs of the populace and the nation at large, UNILAG has provided a balance between the principles of theorem and practical applications of scientific, innovative and creative endeavour.
   
He said: “These programmes are geared to produce critical manpower with requisite skills to make students future titans in their chosen fields.”
   
The high point of the three-day event will be the conferment of honorary awards of emeritus professorship and doctorate degrees on five eminent personalities.
 
They include a former Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe (post-humous);  Lead Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, First Consultant Hospital,  Dr. Stella Ameyo-Adedevoh ( post-humous), founder and Chairman of Oriental Energy Resources Limited, Dr. Mohammed Indimi, Chairman of Premier Lotto Limited, Sir Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu, as well as Chief Executive Officer of Insight Communication Limited, Mr. Biodun Shobanjo.

   
A breakdown of the statistics of the graduating students showed that a total of 15,753 are graduating, comprising 7, 754, representing 49.2 per cent who will be awarded first degrees, and 7, 999 representing 50.8 per cent postgraduate degrees, as well as 160 diplomas in Social Works and Human Kinetics.

Seventy-one -year old Marinze Ifeyinwa Onyemachi Felicia, made history as the oldest student to be awarded a doctoral degree in the institution.
 
The VC used the opportunity to clear the air on Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of  Mr. Usifo Ataga, Super TV boss, saying the suspect  is indeed a part-time Mass Communication student  of the university.
 
He said: “ We cannot deny the fact that Chidinma is a student of UNILAG but it is a national issue and has become a state matter, so we cannot discuss it further than the information we have given out.”

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