In its sixth and seventh combined convocations, Federal University of Lokoja in Kogi State will graduate 2511 graduates, with 61 receiving first-class honours. At a press conference on Monday to kick off preparations for the Federal University’s 6th and 7th combined Convocation ceremonies, which are slated for this weekend, Vice Chancellor Prof. Olayemi Akinwunmi made the announcement.
The Vice Chancellor stated that 128 Postgraduate Diplomas and 99 Masters Degrees would be awarded to the graduates. A breakdown of the graduates reveals that in the sixth set, 28 graduates received first class honours, 319 received second class upper, 736 received second class honours, 197 received division, and 3 received third class honours.
In the seventh set, 33 received first-class honours, 386 received second-class higher distinction, 668 received second-class lower division, 250 received third-class honours, and one received pass degrees. According to Prof. Olayemi’s disclosure, the Federal University Lokoja is currently ranked 9th among Federal Universities and 17th among Nigerian Universities, placing it in the 51st to 60th range out of 120 universities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Vice Chancellor revealed that all of the University’s programmes have moved to the felele Campus and are currently housed there. Prof. Olayemi continued by saying that the University has started its Departments of Medicine, Nursing, and Engineering. He also mentioned that programmes in agriculture, law, pharmacy, psychology, and medical laboratory sciences are on the horizon.
He stated that the University’s College of Health Sciences has fully taken off, with the first students entering the 200-level, and he revealed that the first students’ admissions process into the Engineering and Nursing programmes will take place in the 2023–2024 academic year.
The Vice Chancellor of the University founded both Primary and International Secondary Schools where top-notch education is produced in the area of community service. During his tenure at the university, Prof. Olayemi built the university’s road system, the entrepreneurship centre, 12 blocks of lecture halls, and the university health complex.
According to the Vice Chancellor, the University has built 40 blocks of stores using the build, operate, and transfer approach, and has completed solar-powered electrification of the streets and road networks. The university has also renovated the library and ICT centre, renovated the faculty of science complex, and built an agriculture training centre with assistance from the federal ministry of agriculture, he continued.
The connection of electricity from the Lokoja power substation to the university via the national grid, the purchase of a fire fighting service truck, the building of a security building and the renovation of the male and female dorms at the Adankolo campus for the MB;BS students were all completed during the period under review.
