Covenant University Graduates 238 first class honours
A total of 238 students of Covenant
University in Ota, Ogun, on Friday
graduated with first class honours’ degrees
at the institution’s 2017/2018 Convocation.
The institution’s Vice-Chancellor (V-C),
Prof. Aaron Atayero, disclosed this during
the university’s 13th Convocation, the
Conferment of Honorary Doctorate Degrees
and presentation of prizes to its deserving
students in Ota.
The university graduated 1,887 students for
2017/2018 Academic Session. They
comprised: 238 first class honours, 746
second class upper honours, 452 second
class lower, 86 third class and 365 post-
graduate students.
Miss Salami Toluwani, from the Department
of Industrial Chemistry, College of Sciences
emerged the best student with a Cumulative
Grade Point of Average (CGPA) of 4.99.
Atayero said that the graduates were not
trained to seek but to provide employment
and where they get employed, they should
distinguish themselves as attested to by
employers’ of labour.
“All over the world, our graduates are
always breaking the grounds in many
human endeavours,” he said. Atayero
attributed the success and milestone
achieved by the institution to the high
quality of its teaching linked with high
quality research.
He implored the graduating students to
deploy all what they had been through in
solving the nation’s problems: leadership,
unemployment, poverty, wanton killings,
infrastructural deficit and poor health
services.
Also speaking, Dr David Oyedepo, the
Chancellor of the university, said there was
the need to redefine democracy in the
country so as to surmount its challenges.
He noted that leadership was not just about
talking but taking the lead. Oyedepo said
that leadership was not an endowment, but
a product of outstanding accomplishments.
He said that the vision of the institution
was to raise a new generation of leaders in
every area of human endeavour, which
would engender great changes in Nigeria,
African and the world at large. “I implore
you all to start thinking about changing
and start thinking of solutions to
challenges confronting the nation,” he said.
Oyedepo advised the graduating students to
imbibe and uphold the core values of the
institution. In a keynote address, Mrs
Ibukun Awosika, the Chairman, First Bank
of Nigeria PLC., advised the graduating
students to identify every problem as an
opportunity to proffer solutions to them,
especially, those confronting the country.
Awosika said that the graduates had better
opportunities because they had real value
of education from a good university that
impacted quality education on them.
“Challenges do not destroy vision but they
empowered vision,” she said.
Awosika, however, advised the graduates
not to allow circumstances to overcome
their sense of vision. She also enjoined
them to seek knowledge with character,
adding that without character, it would be
difficult to actualise their dreams.
University in Ota, Ogun, on Friday
graduated with first class honours’ degrees
at the institution’s 2017/2018 Convocation.
The institution’s Vice-Chancellor (V-C),
Prof. Aaron Atayero, disclosed this during
the university’s 13th Convocation, the
Conferment of Honorary Doctorate Degrees
and presentation of prizes to its deserving
students in Ota.
The university graduated 1,887 students for
2017/2018 Academic Session. They
comprised: 238 first class honours, 746
second class upper honours, 452 second
class lower, 86 third class and 365 post-
graduate students.
Miss Salami Toluwani, from the Department
of Industrial Chemistry, College of Sciences
emerged the best student with a Cumulative
Grade Point of Average (CGPA) of 4.99.
Atayero said that the graduates were not
trained to seek but to provide employment
and where they get employed, they should
distinguish themselves as attested to by
employers’ of labour.
“All over the world, our graduates are
always breaking the grounds in many
human endeavours,” he said. Atayero
attributed the success and milestone
achieved by the institution to the high
quality of its teaching linked with high
quality research.
He implored the graduating students to
deploy all what they had been through in
solving the nation’s problems: leadership,
unemployment, poverty, wanton killings,
infrastructural deficit and poor health
services.
Also speaking, Dr David Oyedepo, the
Chancellor of the university, said there was
the need to redefine democracy in the
country so as to surmount its challenges.
He noted that leadership was not just about
talking but taking the lead. Oyedepo said
that leadership was not an endowment, but
a product of outstanding accomplishments.
He said that the vision of the institution
was to raise a new generation of leaders in
every area of human endeavour, which
would engender great changes in Nigeria,
African and the world at large. “I implore
you all to start thinking about changing
and start thinking of solutions to
challenges confronting the nation,” he said.
Oyedepo advised the graduating students to
imbibe and uphold the core values of the
institution. In a keynote address, Mrs
Ibukun Awosika, the Chairman, First Bank
of Nigeria PLC., advised the graduating
students to identify every problem as an
opportunity to proffer solutions to them,
especially, those confronting the country.
Awosika said that the graduates had better
opportunities because they had real value
of education from a good university that
impacted quality education on them.
“Challenges do not destroy vision but they
empowered vision,” she said.
Awosika, however, advised the graduates
not to allow circumstances to overcome
their sense of vision. She also enjoined
them to seek knowledge with character,
adding that without character, it would be
difficult to actualise their dreams.
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