By ‘Gbenga Bankole
The foremost entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Joseph Ayo
Babalola University (JABU) on Friday January 25th, 2019 held 9th
convocation ceremony.
A total number of 608 students of the institution were conferred
with various degrees and diplomas at the glamorous ceremony.
About 25 out of the 593 graduating students of the institution
obtained first class Bachelor degrees.
Giving a breakdown of the degrees, the Acting
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Theophilus Olowokure said, “A total of
593 graduated at the first degree level, among whom 25 have secured first class
honours, 245 second class upper, 249 second class lower, 84 third class and one
student obtained ordinary pass degree. Five postgraduate diplomas and 10 master
degrees would also be conferred with honours.
“It is significant that in this period the College of Law of
the university is producing the first set of graduates. It is producing 37
graduates.”
Olowokure noted that 16 out of the 25 academic programmes
run by the university have been given full accreditation, while five have
interim accreditation of the National Universities Commission.
He also said many professional bodies in the country had
accredited the professional programmes of the university, as he lamented the
institution’s challenge of meeting its annual admission quota due to high fees
and increase in number of private universities in the country.
“The high fees, which is necessitated by the need to cover
high overhead costs, had the effect of making parents of prospective students
and their wards shun private universities in preference for public universities
that charge relatively low fees. Those
students that fail to gain admission prefer to wait and seek admission into
public universities the following year,” the VC lamented.
Also, at the ceremony which had all the Principal Officers
of CAC Worldwide in attendance, honorary doctorate degrees were awarded to the
founder of Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF),
Chief Mrs Titi Abubakar Atiku and the Chairman of GMT Energy Resources Limited,
Mr. Seinde Fadeni-Oladapo.
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