A total of 243 students have graduated with First Class from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) and the Wesley University, Ondo State.
At Wesley University, 38 of the 348 graduating students made First Class, while 195 of the 3,476 graduands made First Class in FUTA.
Vice Chancellor of FUTA Prof. Adenike Oladiji, at a news conference to herald the 33rd convocation ceremonies, said the institution has geared up efforts to embrace artificial intelligence.
Prof. Oladiji said 1,510 made second class honours (Upper Division), 1,515 made Second Class honours (Lower Division), 254 with Third Class while two students graduated with a pass.
Prof. Oladiji announced Miss Oluwanifemi Favour Olajuyigbe, a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, as the best graduating student with a CPGA of 4.93.
Oladiji added that the Minister Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, would deliver the Convocation Lecture titled ‘Knowledge and Research: Foundation of a Prosperous Economy’.
She added: “FUTA aspires to be a world-class University of Technology and Centre of Excellence in Training, Research and Service Delivery. Currently, we have active collaborations with universities in the USA, UK, Germany, China, Brazil, India, and Ghana. The details are in FUTA’s Giant Strides XI.”
Vice Chancellor of Wesley University, Prof. Obeka Sunday, solicited for scholarship award to indigent students of the institution.
Prof. Obeka said the institution has the least fees structure among private universities in the country.
Registrar of the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi, Dr John Ujo David, who delivered the convocation lecture, said the commercialisation of education in the country.
According to him, the good missionary schools were giving way to commercialised and unaffordable schools or miracle centres.
He said: “It is unbelievable that a church member’s child cannot attend a training centre set up with the proceeds of offerings and tithes which the members also made contributions to, owing to the man’s indigence.
“To this, we ask where lies the service-oriented content in church vision?”
