No fewer than six graduands, who scored a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 7.0 at the Master’s degree level, were awarded their certificates at the 76th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Ibadan on Friday.
The six were among the 2,450 graduands from different disciplines who received their Master’s degree certificates on the third day of the institution’s convocation ceremony and 76th Founders Day.
One of the six graduands, Abiodun Oyeleye, who completed her Master’s degree programme in Wood Production, at the Faculty of Technology, UI, attributed the success to God and the help received from family and tutors.
She said “I didn’t do it alone God helped me and I had the support of my wonderful lecturers who instilled the knowledge in me and I can’t but appreciate my parents, my mum and dad of blessed memory and siblings.
“My advice to others aspiring this feat is that they should believe that when they put their hearts to a thing, and with the help of God and every resource in place, they can be whatever they want to be.”
The Vice-Chancellor (VC), UI, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, said that postgraduate education at UI has been producing higher-level manpower in West Africa.
Speaking at the third day of the institution’s convocation ceremonies, the VC noted that the institution continued to turn out the highest number of postgraduate candidates in the African continent.
“The institution’s postgraduate college has consistently maintained excellence in postgraduate education and research, producing the highest number of higher-level manpower in Nigeria, and indeed, in West Africa.
“In furtherance of this laudable objective, our postgraduate college has, over the years organised a series of interdisciplinary discourses delivered by distinguished personalities from the academic and the business worlds, both within and outside Nigeria.
“This is to share experience with the University of Ibadan on the broad theme of education and national development.
