205 Bag First Class At UNIMAID’s 25th Convocation

A total of 205 graduands yesterday bagged First Class honours out of the 20, 164 graduating students of the University of Maiduguri at its 25th convocation ceremony and 50th anniversary.

Giving the breakdown of the classes of the degrees of the graduating students at the convocation ground of the University in Maiduguri, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Mohammed Laminu Mele, said the graduands were drawn from two colleges and seventeen faculties, representing the rich academic diversity and broad intellectual strength of the university.

He said,” This distinguished cohort includes: 66 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees; 1,020 Master’s degrees -3,851 Postgraduate Diplomas -13,624, Bachelor’s degrees and1,699 Diplomas Among them, we celebrate outstanding academic distinctions: 205 First Class Honours;  3,114 Second Class Upper Division and 9,501 Second Class Lower Division.”

Professor Mele said each of these accomplishments represented not only years of hard work, sacrifice and perseverance but also the promise of future leadership, innovation and service to the nation and humanity, adding that members of the university were proud of the graduating students.

He announced the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees upon three eminent personalities of national and international repute – individuals whose lives exemplify scholarship, leadership, philanthropy and service.