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.
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