Ota (Ogun) – Nineteen-year-old Wukeh Egem-Odey on Friday emerged the overall best graduating student of the Covenant University, Ota in Ogun in the 2011/ 2012 academic session.

Egem-Odey is among the 88 first class students produced by the university in the academic session.

The first class students were among 1,389 persons conferred with various degrees at the university’s seventh convocation ceremony at Ota.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Aize Obayan, said that 10 of the graduating students were less than 19 years old.

Obayan said that 646 of the graduands had second class, upper division while 576 graduated in second class, lower division while 79 received third class degrees.

The vice chancellor said that the institution’s School of Postgraduate Studies graduated a total of 89 students out of which 70 had master’s degree and 19 PhDs.

Obayan said that the university had, in its first 10 years of existence, laid a solid foundation for raising a generations of new leaders.

In his address, the Chancellor of the University, Dr David Oyedepo, decried the heightening insecurity in Nigeria and appealed to the Federal Government to address the problem urgently.

Oyedepo said that young Nigerian graduates were ready to shun the National Youth Service Corps scheme because of insecurity.

“Everyone today can see that the greatest threat to our nationhood is the ongoing mass killing and attack on churches, since December, 2010, which has claimed over 1,500 souls and left many wounded.

“The state of insecurity in our country today seems to have defied all logical approach but it remains a duty to stamp out this ugly situation from our country before it claims further casualties,’’ he said.

He pointed out that standard of living in the country was declining because of insecurity, regretting the increasing unemployment in the country, saying that about 40 million youths were jobless or underemployed.

“We can only make a loud call for a ‘stop and think’ approach because we need intellectual bravery in our universities if we must attain relevance and secure our environment for peace and progress.

“We desperately require the right kind of education that will culminate in the emergence of the right kind of leaders and promote the right values,’’ he said.

Oyedepo told the graduating students to be of good behaviour and to contribute their quota to national development.

A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, said there was an urgent need for African countries to bridge the productivity gap between men and women through institutional reforms and effective public investment.

She said that women had poor access to education and skill acquisition opportunities.

Ezekwesili said that empowerment of women to participate actively in a modern society would enlarge the scope of human capital that would power economic growth.

“Every society that disrespects the right of women to access basic services ignores their right to participate in the decision-making process in the family and the general society,’’ she said.

Ezekwesili advised the graduands to be focused in the pursuit of their visions.

Responding on behalf of the graduands, Egem-Odey pledged that they would be among those to improve Nigeria’s economic fortune.

Egem-Odey, an accountant, said that Nigeria had the potential to compete favourably with great economies but needed to strengthen various institutions to achieve the feat.

On his achievement, he said: “I denied myself comfort and pleasure which a lot of our youths are not ready to do.

“I wish to advise those looking up to me to place emphasis on long-term plans and proper execution in order to soar,’’ he said. (NAN)



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/covenant-varsity-produces-88-first-class-students/

Wow. . . . Congrats to CU and the new Eagles !!!

Congratz

88? Do they sell 1st class in that school

God forbid! which kind university b dis? 88 first class na beans?.... 2nd class upper and only few third class. i dont buy this is a scam abeg government reject their degree and let dem start afresh for one Northern university all those south guy's corrupt awon ole.

Yet anoda large numbert of youths have join d unemployment market. I pity naija.

welcome the the world of reality the 88 first class students are are like robots that can not think they will end up as a lecturer because they were not taught the reality of life, they are just good in giving lecturers what they want. anyway congrats sha!!!

Congts to d cu student.to me i dnt tink it wrong to give a student 1st clas if he or she marit it.

88 first class studs seem rather much. I am tempted to assume most of dem did nt deserve it. Bt one has to b careful,though. Cov is d best priv institution in naija. And remeba dat unlike in a public uni wen u work hrd in a priv uni, u reap d fruit of ur labour. I just did d math- about 6.3% of them had a first class!

Original Wayo

proud CU graduate doing great in Abuja.

This news is quite interesting to me.

Not bad

futo students abeg help me tell them say na WASH

All these bad belle people sef! Let me tell u, C.U is a very strict university. They actually force their students to study, there is a time table for all students activities that they follow strictly in that school. And most of the students there are fresh from secondary school. That's why they have young graduates. Their results are very real, trust me. 1st class is not something u can easily buy.

stepo707: 88? Do they sell 1st class in that school

I wonder oh

88 first class?before nko?parents go pay hefty fees and their pickin no go get work because of 2.2 or thirdie degrees?private secondary schools have been flaunting high pass rates to stay in biz for years.the next step hopefully will be universities flaunting how many successful genuine entreprenuers[not oil subsidy billionaires o] graduated from their citadels or left in 200 level to become multimillionaires because the quality was too high he didnt have to finish(wink)

Since the school is a very good why didn't they graduate 1000 first class?

Few months back Uni of Ibadan produce similar number of First class Grads from a thousand plus graduating student and we all applaud them, but a private uni does same and some silly posters here thinks the Graduates are robots who can't think.

Where are all d first class graduate ? Who emply them and where do they work ?

Are they into private biz ?

Anyway,congrats to the latest ''EAGLES''

I dnt know why comment hav to go on and on this is private university for God sake if i send my pikin go dia and he no graduate with atleast upper i go chop am raw

ayo2dey: proud CU graduate doing great in Abuja.

shut up. Which Abuja?.

88 first class outta 1,389 I think it's normal coz I cud remember the year I graduated we have about 62 1st class dat year....what you guyz don't know is that b4 the management cud approve their grades,proffessors frm differen schools will be invited to hold a panel and interview these brilliant ones,Mind you all these proffessors are not from their school...So stop criticising what you don't know,I belive these students merited it

I work with their product in my company, she was there before I came after my NYSC, but I thought her all she does today even though she always receive insult all day from the MD for incompetency. As far as I'm concerned, they're just answering big name without anytin to show for it

ariyebaba: Where are all d first class graduate ? Who emply them and where do they work ?

Are they into private biz ?

Anyway,congrats to the latest ''EAGLES''

my broda 1st class graduate is hot cake everywia,they don't suffer unemployement like other grades do,they only like to choose where to work which is not happening in nigeria but foreign country they have the ability to choose...its like you don't know the meaning of 1.1......4.5 above.you definately don't understand what we r saying here

Na degree and connection den they sell for CU their students do not perform to expectation in the so called Naija Labour Market. CU continue the good advert for you to make more profits than ur competitors.

ayo2dey: proud CU graduate doing great in Abuja.

CU grad' schooling ma NYSC counterparts from Federal schools who can barely construct a good sentence in English..
Ekiti...

meksroland: I work with their product in my company, she was there before I came after my NYSC, but I thought her all she does today even though she always receive insult all day from the MD for incompetency. As far as I'm concerned, they're just answering big name without anytin to show for it

Bro' and u can't construct one simple sentence??!! You 'thought' her what she knows??I smell beef and envy!! 'She was there before u came after her nysc?!!'. Listen to yaself!!


Slow bloke! Pls stfu and sit down were ---------------» _______/

Wait o,all the 88 graduated in 1 session or do the mean that the school has produced 88 first class graduates since its inception?I'm kinda confused.

cyril83: 88 first class outta 1,389 I think it's normal coz I cud remember the year I graduated we have about 62 1st class dat year....what you guyz don't know is that b4 the management cud approve their grades,proffessors frm differen schools will be invited to hold a panel and interview these brilliant ones,Mind you all these proffessors are not from their school...So stop criticising what you don't know,I belive these students merited it

That's in addition to the external examiners that come in to asess the standard of lectures/practicals from time to time and the NUC team.

alluson: futo students abeg help me tell them say na WASH

As in na better WASH.