A total of 153 out of the 8,670 students that are graduating during the 27th convocation ceremony of the Lagos State University, LASU, are graduating in the first class category, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has said.
Briefing newsmen on Thursday at the main campus of the university in Ojo, Lagos, she added that 98 doctoral degree holders would also graduate.
This is just as Olaniyi Mubaraq Olawale of the Department of Accounting Education emerged the Best Graduating Student with 4.98 CGPA.
Also, former Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, is slated to deliver the convocation lecture titled, “Embracing the Future: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Humanity”.
The session is or be chaired by Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola.
“Out of the 8,670 students that are graduating for 1st Degree programmes in the University, 153 came out with First Class, 3,029 are graduating with second class Upper Division, 715 are graduating with second class Lower Division, 228 are graduating with a Pass and 195 are graduating with Non-Classified Degrees
“Out of the 2,164 Postgraduate students that are graduating, we have 375 Postgraduate Diplomas, 962 Academic Masters, 672 Professional Masters, 89 Doctor of Philosophy and 66 Professional Doctoral Degrees.”
Also, a Distinguished Professor, Martins Anetekhai, has been elevated to the post of Emeritus Professor and Professor Amidu Sanni becoming a Distinguished Professor.
Renowned industrialist, Prince Samuel Adedoyin and Prince Tajudeen Olusi to be given honorary doctoral degree.
Listing some of the achievements recorded in the last one year, Olatunji-Bello said, “In the 2023/2024 Academic Session, we admitted the first set of students into 20 newly approved programmes in four new faculties and school namely: Faculty of Allied Health Sciences; Faculty of Pharmacy; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, School of Library, Archival and Information Science, the first in West Africa and Second in Africa.
“We also secured approval to mount nine additional courses for the Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative STEM Education (ACEITSE) under the B.Sc. Degree Programme
Still on the Africa Centre of Excellence, we quadrupled the Centre’s performance earnings (measured by the World Bank’s Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLI) from less than 20% in September, 2021 to over 75% as at April, 2024), a feat that accorded commendation from the World Bank.
“In our Postgraduate School, we have increased the number of postgraduate programmes being offered to remedy the manpower and professional skills shortages in Lagos State. Against this background, we have established twenty-four (24) new postgraduate programmes mostly in the professional and skill-based disciplines taking the total number of postgraduate programmes being offered at the postgraduate level in the university to 336.”
