Prof. Mojeed Liasu, Acting Vice-Chancellor announced this
Tuesday.
He said in a press conference that the university will
graduate 24,704 students during its 14th combined convocation holding on
Friday.
In a breakdown of the figure, he said 8,096 graduands made
Second Class Honours Upper Division; 12,023 graduated with Second Class Lower;
3221 made Third Class and 299 finished in Pass category.
He explained that the graduands were drawn from six sets:
2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.
As part of the convocation, the acting VC also said a former
Military Governor of Oyo State, Gen. Oladayo Popoola (retd.), would be awarded
an honorary degree in appreciation of his contributions to the development of
humanity.
Also to be awarded honorary degrees of the university are
former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of LAUTECH, Chief
Mobolaji Ayorinde (SAN); the Vice-Chairman and Executive Officer of BOVAS
Group, Dr Victoria Samson; Pastor Williams Olugbemi and Ambassador Ibironke
Adefope.
Liasu said the university has continued to record many feats
which he attributed to the efforts of Governor Seyi Makinde to reposition the
school and make it a world-class university.
The acting VC said LAUCTECH has been consistently ranked the
Best State University in the country while the National Universities Commission
declared it the fourth-best university in the country.
“News filtering in from Weboneteucs, a world-renowned
ranking body, also named us as the Best State University and number 12 in the
country.
“In the latest ranking, March 11, 2022, the body rates
LAUTECH as the 9th best university in Nigeria in it’s “World Scientist and
University Rankings 2022,” he added.
He lauded lecturers in the university for winning various
grants including TETFUND, and Prof. Daniel Ojurongbe of Department of Medical
Microbiology, who he said won Humboldt Research Hub awarded by Alexander Von
Humboldt Foundation.
“His research is on the Establishment of Centre for Emerging
and Re-emerging Infectious diseases with focus on genetic factors influence on
the relatively low mortality rate for COVID-19 in Africa. The value of the
grant is €750,000 (N357,183,513.08),” he added.
He said that the governor had cleared the backlog of 13
months of workers salaries and was working on payment of outstanding allowances
owed the workers to encourage them to continue to give their best.
Liasu said that in line with the state government’s vision
to change LAUTECH to a conventional one from the University of technology, new
academic programmes such as Law, Mass Communication, Education and others
courses would soon be introduced.
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