One of the foremost private universities in Nigeria, Covenant University has produced several First Class graduates.
A total of 188 students of Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State,
on Friday graduated with first class degree at the 2016/2017 convocation
ceremony of the university.
Prof. Aaron Atayero, the Vice-Chancellor (VC), disclosed this
during the 12th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment of Honorary
Doctorate Degrees and presentation of prizes in Ota.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 1,426 students graduated
this academic session. They comprised 188 with first class honours
degree, 568 with second class upper honours, 322 with second class
lower, 47 with third class and 301 post graduate students.
Atayero said the university had trained a set of “expert thinkers
and world changers” that had the ability to thrive in adversity and
contribute their quotas to national development.
The VC said that the institution was a foremost private university
in Nigeria, setting the pace for other public and private institutions.
“Covenant University has continued to be at the cutting edge of
innovation and research in proffering solutions to the nation’s
challenges,’’ he said.
Dr David Oyedepo, the University Chancellor, said that the 2016
edition of the Nigerian Graduate Report ranked the products of the
institution as the most employable graduates among all Nigerian
universities.
Oyedepo said that most of the nation’s challenges needed indigenous solutions rather than foreign ones.
He said that the nation found itself where it was by choice, adding
that it was time individual and leaders took the responsibility of
solving the nation’s problems.
“Education would enhance such initiative in solving the
nation’s challenges because it cannot give what we do not have in
solving our problems,’’ he said.
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