The Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Ogun State, Prof. Abiodun Adebayo, said that 339 students bagged First Class Honours in the 2023/2024 academic session.
Adebayo disclosed this during the 19th Convocation ceremony for the Conferment of First and Higher Degrees, and presentation of prizes on Friday in Ota.
According to him, 1,456 students graduated for the 2023/2024 academic session.
This comprised 339 students who made first class, 762 second class upper honours, 330 second class lower, third class 25 and 151 in the post-graduate categories.
Sanni Oluwademilade, a student in the Department of Industrial Mathematics, College of Mathematics, emerged as the best-graduating student with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.99.
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Adebayo said, “the release of Eagles 2024 will join our network of over 24,000 Covenant Eagles, who are already soaring globally, building the old wastes and raising the former desolations.
“The University is immensely grateful to God as another cohort of new generation leaders are being unleashed in the ecosphere as agents of positive change in our nation, continent and the world.”
The VC said that the university had been ranked by Higher Times Education in the World Universities Ranking 2025, as the best university in Nigeria and number one in West Africa.
Earlier, David Oyedepo, the Chancellor of the institution, said the passion of the university came alive to provide an alternate education in terms of quality that would rescue young individuals from lifelong crises.
According to him, from the onset, there was an understanding that Covenant University was heading to become one of the best in the world.
“No wonder it has been an award-winning university almost since its inception.
“As you know, we are one of the most subscribed private universities in Nigeria today, to the glory of God,” he said.
The Chancellor said that the university was solving character problems among young people and committed to remain a solution-bearing institution.
In his address, Bishop David Abioye, the Pro-Chancellor of the university, admonished the graduates to exercise patience in all of their endeavours as they graduate from the citadel of learning.
Abioye, who tagged his address as “Necessity of Patience”, said the university has modelled them to leaders, adding that it is time for them to go into society and be game changers.
The Pro-Chancellor advised the graduates to provide solutions to the challenges facing their respective communities and soar as eagles.
NAN