157 STUDENTS BAGGED FIRST CLASS IN COVENANT UNIVERSITY

A total of 157 students of the Covenant University, Ota,
Ogun, on Friday bagged First Class degrees at its
2015/2016 convocation.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Ayo, disclosed this
during the 11th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment of
Honourary Doctorate Degrees, and presentation of prizes in
Ota.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a total of
1495 students graduated this academic session.
They comprised 157 first class honours, 708-second class
upper honours, 513-second class lower, 118 in third class
and 154 post graduate students.
Ayo said that the university has instituted strategic goals
that distinguished its students as clear leaders among the
comity of universities, not only in Nigeria, but in Africa.
The don identified some of the strategic goals as
compulsory internship for all students to gain industry
experience, additional certifications in ICT, leadership,
entrepreneurship and foreign language.
Ayo also said that the goals include the introduction of
Mobile Learning System for improved external and internal
efficiency.
Also speaking, Dr. David Oyedepo, the Chancellor of the
Institution, noted that in the drive for excellence, the
university has continued to blaze the trail and extend the
frontiers of knowledge through research.
Oyedepo said that emphasis has been placed on converting
research into tangible problem-solving products and that
the effort had yielded laudable results.
He urged the Federal Government to increase the country’s
annual budget for education because economic growth is
the result of investment in education.
”Nigeria cannot have the desired change until our
government starts investing massively in education,’’
Oyedepo said.
He said that education was a platform to produce highly
skilled personnel that would drive economic growth.
Oyedepo added that Nigeria could only restore its lost glory
and esteem through investing in education.
He advised the Federal Government to re-double its efforts
in tacking corruption in the system, so that a sustainable
development could be achieved through investment in
education.
Prof. Jerry Gana, a former Nigerian Minister of Information
and Orientation, lamented the lack of training facilities for
Nigeria’s graduates.
He observed that poor access to quality education and too
many students competing for few spaces had hindered the
standard of education.
Gana, who is the Pro-Chancellor /Chairman of the
Governing Council of University of Lagos, appealed to the
Federal Government to provide adequate funding for
universities, so that the vocational imbalance in the system
could be addressed.
He said that to restore academic standard in Nigeria, there
was the need for infrastructure development in the nation’s
institutions.

Source:www.Today.ng