188 Students Bag First Class Honours At Covenant University’s 12th Convocation

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.

Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aaron Atayero, disclosed this during the 12th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment of Honorary Doctorate Degrees and presentation of prizes.

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 also 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.

Bishop Oyedepo said that most of the nation’s challenges needed indigenous solutions.


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