UNILAG Set To Honour Danjuma, Adeboye, Others With Doctorate Degrees

University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, will next Thursday confer its honourary doctorate degrees on three eminent Nigerians including the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Dr. Enoch Adeboye; General Theophilus Danjuma and Dr Gamaliel Onosode, for their contributions to the development of the education sector and the country at large.
Vice-chancellor of the university, Prof. Rahamon Bello, said that 125 of its 10,600 graduating students for the 2014 session finished in the First Class division.
It was disclosed during a briefing in Lagos that the event for the award of degrees, higher degrees, diploma, certificates and prizes, will hold from April 27 to April 30.
He said that 1,664 of the students bagged the Second Class Upper division, while 2,827 were in the Second Class Lower division.
According to Bello, 963 others would be graduating in the Third Class division; 90 with Pass degrees while 167 others would be under the unclassified degrees in Medicine and Pharmacy.
“I am also proud to announce Mr Korede Akinpelu of the department of Chemical Engineering as the best graduating student of the university with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.96.
“Mr Sedan Shittu of the department of Finance is the second best graduating student with a CGPA of 4.91.”
Bello said the institution will also be graduating 103 Doctors of Philosophy (PhDs); 4,330 with Masters’ degrees and 331 with Postgraduate Diplomas from its School of Postgraduate Studies.
He said that Dr Isaac Akpan, with the thesis entitled: “Processing and Characterisation of Selected Biodegradable Fibre-PLA Composites’’ emerged the best doctorate student.