188 Graduated With First Class Degree at Covenant University

A total of 188 students of Covenant University in
Ota, Ogun State, on Friday graduated with first
class degree at the 2016/2017 convocation
ceremony of the university.
Prof. Aaron Atayero, the Vice-Chancellor (VC),
disclosed this during the 12th Convocation
Ceremony and Conferment of Honorary Doctorate
Degrees and presentation of prizes in Ota.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 1,426
students graduated this academic session. They
comprised 188 with first class honours degree,
568 with second class upper honours, 322 with
second class lower, 47 with third class and 301
post graduate students.
Atayero said the university had trained a set of
“expert thinkers and world changers” that had the
ability to thrive in adversity and contribute their
quotas to national development.
The VC said that the institution was a foremost
private university in Nigeria, setting the pace for
other public and private institutions.
“Covenant University has continued to be at the
cutting edge of innovation and research in
proffering solutions to the nation’s challenges,’’
he said.
Dr David Oyedepo, the University Chancellor, said
that the 2016 edition of the Nigerian Graduate
Report ranked the products of the institution as
the most employable graduates among all
Nigerian universities.
Oyedepo said that most of the nation’s challenges
needed indigenous solutions rather than foreign
ones.
He said that the nation found itself where it was
by choice, adding that it was time individual and
leaders took the responsibility of solving the
nation’s problems.
“Education would enhance such initiative in
solving the nation’s challenges because it cannot
give what we do not have in solving our
problems,’ ’ he said.