LAUTECH to graduate 10,317, 105 first class, 112 Ph.D

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),
Ogbomoso, Oyo State, will on Friday graduate 10,317
students and conferred first class honours on 105
graduands and 112 doctorate degrees on Post graduates
students at its 13th convocation ceremony.

The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Adeniyi
Gbadegesin disclosed this while addressing journalists at
press conference held at the newly built TETFUND hall,
LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, on Wednesday.

Gbadegin disclosed that this year’s convocation
ceremony commenced on April 15 and will end on
Saturday April 23, with the university conferring honours
on a total of 10,317 first degrees on persons for the
award of degrees in both 2013/2014 and 2014 and
2014/2015 academic sessions.

According to him, 105 make first class honours; 50
student’s in 2013/14 and 55 students in 2014/15
academic sessions, while for the first time LAUTECH
crossed the 100 landmark for doctorate degrees with
112 students for Ph.D.

Other categories Gbadegesin said includes; 2,434
students in the second class upper division, 5,527
students in Second class Lower Division, 1,692 in the
Third Class Division, 122 in the Third Class Division and
437 in the unclassified category.

The university don also disclosed that Ige Olufemi Elijah
of the Department of Mathematics and Sanni Saidat
Abidemi of the department of Statistics emerged best
graduating students for 2013/2014 and 2014/2015
respectively.

Ige emerged with 4.85 Cumulative Grade Point of
Average (CGPA), while Saidat emerged over all best
student of the institution this session with 4.88 CGPA.
Furthermore, the institution will also graduates a total of
14,349 individuals in postgraduates degrees on Saturday,
April 23.

On Thursday, April 21, the institution will hold its
Convocation titled “Maintaining quality University of
Technology in the 21st century: Leveraging globalisation,
sustainability and technology” by an erudite Professor
and Dean of the College of Management, University of
Wisconsin-Stout, USA, Professor Abel Femi Adekola.
He promised that the institution will not rest on its oars,
that LAUTECH is not just creating the best in academics
but the very best in our chosen specialisation of thinking
for our nation.

“As a University of Technology, the onus is on us to
continue to develop ideas and systems that would
steadily propel the country to greatness to such an extent
that we will become self sustaining in food production,
technological advancement and whatever other thing
that enlists us among the comity of developed countries
of the world.

“More than anything else, we are believers in the “can do
right” and are emboldened to rededicate ourselves to
further drive the vision that will re-position our
University as ‘primus inter pares’.”

Gbadegesin further informed that the university has also
“sought and got the approval of the National University
Commission (NUC) for a licence for the Open and
Distance Learning. The NUC, having been convinced
beyond reasonable doubt that the University has the
capacity to run the programme, granted the approval to
enable us run Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc)
programme in computer science through Open and
Distance Learning while approval for other degree
programme is being processed.”

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