Disclosing this to newsmen on Wednesday, the Vice
Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, said 340 of the first degree holders were
in the First Class category, with David Oluwatomiwa Akanmu, having a perfect
Cumulative Grade Point Average CGPA of 5.0. He is from the Faculty of
Engineering.
“Let me take you through the statistics of the graduating
students. This year, we will be graduating 17,464 students. Of these,10,578
will receive first degrees and 6,886 are postgraduate. Of those with first
degrees, 340 are first class with 97 coming from Management Sciences, followed
by Science with 57 and Engineering 47. From the Faculties of Pharmacy, Basic
Medical Sciences and Clinical Sciences, there were 39 distinctions 24 of which,
were from the Faculty of Pharmacy.
“3,374 graduated with Second class upper, 4,547 graduated
with Second class lower and 1,832 with 3rd class. 188 graduated with a pass and
250 had unclassified degrees from Pharmacy, Basic and Clinical Sciences.
The overall best graduating student who is also the best
graduating student in Science is David Oluwatomiwa Akanmu, from the Faculty of
Engineering, with a perfect score of 5.00 while Ibrahim Abiodun Quadri, of the
Faculty of Management Sciences with CGPA of 4.94 is the best graduating student
(Humanities).
“Of the 6886 postgraduate degrees, we have 465 graduating
with a postgraduate diploma, 6266 are graduating with a Masters of which 377
have distinctions. Most exciting is that 31 of the Masters students are
International students all with MSc degrees who were supported by World Bank
bank grant through the African Centre of Excellence for Drug Research, Herbal
medicine development and Regulatory Science (ACEDHERS), the centre Director Dr
Bola Ademilua worked extremely hard with her team to achieve this. This is the
first time we will have such a harvest of international students at one
convocation in the history of this university and this further reiterate and
validates the aggressive internationalisation drive of this administration and
previous administrations.
“This year, 155 graduands will be awarded the Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD) degree in various disciplines. The overall best Ph.D. Thesis
award for this year which is also the best PhD in the Sciences goes to Aminat
Olawunmi Ige, with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. The best PhD in the humanities goes
to Issa Akanji Adedokun with a Ph.D. in Private and Property Law, ” she said.
Dr Ige is a Mathematics lecturer at the Lagos State
University, LASU, Ojo, Lagos.
On the award of honorary doctorate degree, Prof. Ogunsola
said UNILAG would honour three eminent personalities.
“Professor Toyin Falola, OON, – Jacob and Frances Sanger
Mossiker Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, is a globally acclaimed
influential humanities scholar whose wide-ranging scholarship has placed him at
the zenith of the global academy.
“Professor Phyllis Kanki, DVM, – a professor of Immunology
at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Boston through her work in West
Africa was the first person to isolate HIV2 which causes a milder form of AIDS
that was more commonly found in West Africa She has contributed significantly
to Medical Education, HIV research and building research capacity across
Nigeria and Africa. In fact, the story of the Nigerian HIV response cannot be
written without mentioning her contributions.
“Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, OFR – a Professor of
Political Science, a sound intellectual, an astute administrator with a strong
sense of ethics who revolutionized Nigeria’s electoral process and conducted an
internationally acclaimed free and fair election.”
Falola is also to deliver the convocation lecture titled,
“Decolonizing African Higher Education for Transformational Development”.
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