ABUAD First Convocation – 103 Graduates To Get First Degree Honours

Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD will at her first convocation confer first degree awards on 103 graduating students.

Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, said yesterday that it would confer first degree awards on 103 graduating students at its maiden convocation on Monday.

Its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sidi Osho, said out of the figure, made up of 52 males and 51 males, from the College of Sciences and the College of Social and Management Sciences, 18 students bagged first class degrees while 59 others finished with Second Class Honours (Upper Division). Osho told journalists at a press conference heralding the convocation that 18 students bagged Second Class Honours (Lower Division) while nine others finished with Third Class Honours.

At the conference graced by ABUAD principal officers, the vice-chancellor said the graduating students had been “prepared to be employers, and not just employees, of labour,” having acquired an allround education and character moulding.

According to her, alongside academics, the students had undergone training in the institution’s entrepreneurial centre, language centre, food security centre and leadership centre to become self-sufficient and employers of labour. Osho said President Goodluck Jonathan would commission ABUAD College of Engineering tomorrow as part of activities marking the convocation while the Deputy Director- General, United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Dr. Lalla Aicha Ben Bakar, would deliver the Convocation Lecture entitled: “Higher Education and Development in Africa,” on Monday.

Also on Monday, the VC said honorary degrees would be conferred on Bakar, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Interior Affairs Minister, Comrade Abba Moro and Engineer Tunde Yussuf having been “found worthy in character, hard work and commitment to human development”.