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EKSU Honours Adeboye, Alakija

by Alo Abiola
1 year ago
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Vice chancellor of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, Prof. Edward Olanipekun, has said the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, businesswoman and philanthropist, Princess Folorunso Alakija, will be conferred with honorary degrees of the university at its 28th convocation.

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Also, 91 graduating students of EKSU would be awarded first cla degrees in various disciplines.
A total of 10,894 students set to graduate from the state-owned institution.
The VC, who addressed a pre-convocation press conference yesterday, a former governor of the state, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and Prince Julius Adeluyi are other eminent Nigerians to be honored.
Olanipekun said they will be garlanded during the event which holds on Thursday with the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), Doctor of Business Administration (Honorary Causa), Doctor of Law (Honoris Causa) and Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) respectively.

Giving the breakdown of the graduating students, the VC said of the total number, 91 students have first class, 3262 have second class honours (upper division), 6411 students have second class honours (lower division) while 747 and four students are graduating with third class and pass respectively.

The professor of industrial chemistry added that the university would also confer diploma, postgraduate diploma, masters and doctoral degrees on 379 postgraduate students.
He disclosed that no fewer than sixteen academic programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels were recently approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The programmes which will commence from the 2023/2024 academic session included, PhD Laboratory Medicine, PhD. Obstetrics and Gynaecology, PhD Paediatric and Child Health, PhD Medicine, PhD Surgery, PhD Public Health among others.
Harping on infrastructural development of the institution, the VC revealed that almost 30 impactful projects have been executed and completed through TETfund and internally generated funds in the last five years under his leadership.

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