state universities continue to turn out less number of first class degree.the over 22,000 graduating students consist of three sets.this ought to make the front page.

LASU Turns Out 41
First Class Graduates
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Thu, 07/06/2012 -
12:18am | TAIWO
OGUNMOLA
News Education
Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo,
is set to turn out 41 first class
graduates out of 22,035
students in its 2012 convocation
ceremony.
The university’s vice-chancellor,
Prof. Oladapo Obafunwa
disclosed this on Wednesday at a
press conference to mark the
commencement of the ceremony.
Obafunwa explained that this
year’s convocation would bring
both full and part-time graduates
of 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and
2010/2011 together.
The VC in his analysis said a total
of 41 students will be awarded
First Class certificates while 2,832
made the Second Class (upper
division) list. A total number of
14,922, 4,100 and 140 others
will be awarded with Second
Class (lower division), Third Class
and Pass qualifications
respectively.
About 40 of the total figure shall
bag their PhD certificates.
Meanwhile, as part of activities to
mark the ceremony, Coconut
Breaking Festival has been
scheduled to take place at the
entrance of Badagry town on
Monday, June 11, and will be
followed by the stage adaptation
of Fred Agbeyegbe’s “The King
Must Dance Naked” by the
university’s Department of
Theatre Arts and Music troupe.
On Monday also, the director
general, Centre for Black and
African Arts and Civilisation
(CBAAC), Prof. Tunde Babawale,
will be the guest lecturer at the
convocation lecture. The theme
for this year’s lecture is
“Reflections on Culture,
Democracy And The Quest For A
New Era,” which will take place at
the institution’s main campus.
There will be an award of
diploma and first degree
certificates while the
postgraduate category will
receive theirs on Thursday, June
14.
Speaking on the state of the
university, Obafunwa thanked all
the workers on the campus and
their unions for what he
described as the ongoing
repositioning efforts of a once
battered university.
He thanked the Lagos State
government for its efforts to
reclaim the school’s lost glory.
The vice chancellor added that as
part of measures adopted to
change the face of the
institution, certificates will be
collected by any of the graduates
who may have fulfilled all laid
down procedures immediately
after convocation.

today(june 13) marks the 17th convocation ceremony of lasu as lagos governor expected to be on campus amid tight security. Kudos to all lasu graduating student