42 Adamawa Varsity Students Bag First-Class Degrees

Forty-two students of the Adamawa State University, Mubi, have graduated with first-class degrees in various courses of the institution.

The vice chancellor of the university, Professor Augustine Clement, gave the details on Friday as part of the 15th, 16th and 17th combined convocation ceremony slated for today.

Clement said 1,734 graduands would be conferred with second class upper, and 1,842 with second class upper out of 9,225 candidates across undergraduate, diploma, and postgraduate programmes.

The VC further revealed that the institution, which has over 15,000 students and 64 professors, has constituted a committee on sexual harassment and dress code, where students can report cases of abuse in the university.

He added that the institution has equally introduced Cyber security, information systems, history education, English education, public relations, journalism and media studies and education management.

The school has upgraded its entrepreneurship studies unit to a full-fledged department and academic programme, following the approval by the NUC, established a career development centre, and quality assurance unit.

According to him, contract has been awarded for internet connectivity for both campuses, clearance of the bulk of arrears on earned allowances and implementation of the 25 percent and 35 percent salary increment for academic and non-academic staff.

He enumerated the establishment of ADSU agribusiness centre, designed to harness agricultural potentials for revenue generation and community development, committee on the establishment of the faculty of medicine, among other developmental initiatives.

The don identified the need for fire service units and firefighting vehicles in both campuses as challenges facing the institution.