Trinity University is set to hold its 3rd Convocation on Friday, March 21, 2025, with twenty-eight students set to bag first-class degrees out of 122 students graduating.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Clement Kolawole, made this known in a press conference heralding activities for the university’s third convocation, which kicked off operations in 2019.
He added that the combined third convocation and seventh matriculation ceremonies would be held from March 17 to 20, 2025, on the university campus in Yaba, Lagos.
Kolawole, who compared the number of graduates, stated that “twenty-eight students bagged a first class, 65 students bagged 2nd class upper, 25 students earned 2nd Class lower degrees, while three per cent of the total got a 3rd class. The configuration of the first-class degrees is thirteen male and fifteen female students. Our overall Best Graduating Student is Farouq Adedolapo Animasaun, who got a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.95 and is from the Computer Science Department.
“Also, we are proud to graduate our first set of nursing and midwifery students, six of them, and science and laboratory students, two of whom are among the 122 graduates. The Nursing Students have obtained three professional certificates in their field besides the one from Trinity University.”
The Vice-Chancellor added that Dr Cosmas Maduka, chairman of Coscharis Group of Companies, will deliver the convocation lecture on Wednesday, March 19, and speak on the topic ‘Success is not a degree’.
He added that part of the convocation activities was that 554 students would be matriculating for the 2024/2025 academic exercise on Thursday, March 20. The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, would deliver the matriculation lecture, titled ‘The Central Place of University Education in Personal and National Development’.
