UNILORIN Graduates 69 First Class Students
A total of 6,710 graduating students 
will receive various degree certificates during the 31st Convocation 
Ceremony of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) scheduled to hold this 
week.
Speaking during the pre-convocation 
press briefing in llorin on Tuesday, the university's vice chancellor, 
Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, said that sixty nine of the graduating 
students bagged first class degrees.
In a further breakdown of the results, 
the VC said 1,392 bagged Second Class (Upper Division), 2,884 got Second
 Class (lower division), adding that 932 were awarded Third Class while 
82 got Pass.
Ambali, who described the university as 
the fastest growing university in Africa, said that a total of 22 
development projects, built by about N2 billion TETFUND grants, would be
 inaugurated to mark the 40th anniversary of the institution.
He mentioned part of the projects to 
include lecture theatres, laboratories, medical assessment centre, 
200-bed private hostel, electricity supply from main campus to College 
of Health Science, road construction, rehabilitation of 650-seater 
science lecture theatre, among others.
Prof. Ambali, however, called on the 
Federal Government to release more funds for the capital projects so 
that the University will increase its admission quota.
Comments