The Vice Chancellor, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State Professor Anthony Akinlo has said the ivory tower is set to graduate 635 undergraduates in its 14th convocation ceremony with 48 bagging first class honours.
Akinlo while briefing newsmen in Ede as part of the convocation events said 223 students came out with second-class upper division, 215 in second-class lower division while the remaining 66 fell under third-class division.
He added that seven students will also bag M.Sc and Ph.D degrees, while Elder Morounfolu Olusola Olakunrin SAN would be conferred with honorary doctorate degree of Letters (D.Litt) (Honours Causa) in recognition of his astute leadership qualities and contributions to educational development.
Akinlo who named Miss Esther Oluwayemisi with CGP 0.5 as the best student of the ‘Diamond Set’ disclosed that beside being offered automatic employment, she will also enjoy the instruction’s scholarship up to Ph.D level.
Akinlo said that the institution was recently ranked as the best private university and the second best overall in the country in the 2022 National Universities Commission (NUC) ranking of universities.
“The ranking has attested to the university’s unprecedented efforts at meeting the global best practices of excellence in running higher institutions,” he said.
The VC noted that the world acclaimed African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) which rescued Nigeria from the spread of the dreaded Ebola, COVID-19, Monkey Pox has further been equipped with a new Labcyte Echo 525 bioanalyzer that can run 384 samples at once within shorter time.
