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That's massive. Congratulations to them all

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/58-ui-law-students-graduate-with-first-class-honours/

Of THE GREATEST UITE 🙌, proud to be an alumnus of the great institution.

The University of Ibadan is a very powerful University. Stay Blessed.

I am sorry! Something is fishy here.

This is what I know:

1: I wasn’t aware UI had offered law as a subject. In those days if you wanted to study law in the SW you went to Ife or Unilag. Unilag only offering law at the time as a second degree. I don’t know anyone who studied law at UI.
2: The top tier universities with the best law programs then were Ife, Unilag etc and I don’t know of anyone who graduated with a first class in law. It is such a notoriously tough subject to get a 1st class. Maybe you will see 3 in 10yrs talk less graduating that many in one set.
3: even Cambridge university in the Uk statistically o KT produces an average of 17% 1st class graduates in a class. So a law school graduating 40% of the class as 1st class is highly suspicious.
4: the argument that they had a high cut off mark for admission is invalid. The cut off mark for law in the best universities has always very high. They still don’t graduate with 40% 1st class.
5: that it is making the news shows it is an abnormally.

If this is how they dish out 1st class then I am suspicious of a law degree from UI.

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/58-ui-law-students-graduate-with-first-class-honours/

What if I say our second to last born is among☺️

casualobserver:
I am sorry! Something is fishy here.

This is what I know:

1: I wasn’t aware UI had offered law as a subject. In those days if you wanted to study law in the SW you went to Ife or Unilag. Unilag only offering law at the time as a second degree. I don’t know anyone who studied law in UI.
2: The top tier universities with the best law programs then were Ife, Unilag etc and I don’t know of anyone who graduated with a first class in law. It is such a notoriously tough subject to get a 1st class. Maybe you will see 3 in 10yrs talk less graduating that many in one set.
3: even Cambridge university in the Uk statistically o KT produces an average of 17% 1st class graduates in a class. So a law school graduating 40% of the class as 1st class is highly suspicious.
4: the argument that they had a high cut off mark for admission is invalid. The cut off mark for law in the best universities has always very high. They still don’t graduate with 40% 1st class.
5: that it is making the news shows it is an abnormally.

If this is how they dish out 1st class then I am suspicious of a law degree from UI.

That was then. Things have changed. I had a cousin who finished from OAU faculty of Law with a first class. During his set, he was among the three best graduating Law students at that time in OAU. He had 280+ in his UTME and one of the highest marks in Post-UTME with lot of distinctions and few Bs in his O’level.

Criticizing Covenant or UI for mass producing first class degrees is very valid. It is statistically impossible.

This is a clear case of grade inflation, softening of marking standards or weakening of examination toughness.

Any of the big 5 universities can replicate this such feat yearly if the faculty so wishes, all they have to do is tweak one of the criteria and they would be an avalanche of first class. This would naturally result as there is an abundance of talents in these institutions.

Medicine and law don't need this
weakening of standards to mass produce first class students as it weakens the traditional rigorous posturing and superhuman levels often demanded. This is not your SECONDARY SCHOOL.

If the hitherto conservative universities want to make up for their sadistic past, they should award first class degrees to truly deserving students not weakening the standards, so they can grab the headlines.
It's already becoming a competition.
It is becoming an unnerving trend.

I will bet on it, most of the people talking negatively are doing so out of bad belly, people with 3rd, pass etc. It huat a pain in them seeing people do well. Tell then to tender thier certificate and u won't be surprised. Na dem dem.

Now let's see them repeat the feat in law school

Greeeeeaaaat U.I

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/58-ui-law-students-graduate-with-first-class-honours/

Wow! What a feat... Hot brains... Hope they all will be able to apply themselves appropriately in life with the practicality of the real life reality outside there where they're meant to now thrive (as expected) or at survive with that high level of intelligence.

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/58-ui-law-students-graduate-with-first-class-honours/

Only to japa...to what end if we cant retain them

CodeTemplarr:
58 First Class Graduates! This is not chance. This is discipline, resilience, sleepless nights, and relentless excellence. Congratulations to LLB ’25 — your hard work has written history. You did not just pass. You raised the standard,”

The wicked culture of denial for decades has necessitated such explanation. Who asked them to collate study duration? Guilty consciene?

exactly if they were denied their hardwork now by wicked lecturers people will start complaining..... Na smart students UI dey admit so dis, shouldn't surprise anyone

sonnie10:
It is what it is. I blame South East schools because their children are the losers in this mind game. Others are packaging their people with first class, whether merited or not, to look good for future employment but SE is still playing by the rules.

I wonder who will employ your children when their mates are presenting with first class.

bsc graduate is equivalent to SSS 3 graduate here in SW. So be careful

Why should anyone have a problem with this? If they all earned it, why shouldn't they get it? Must sadism always get the best of us?

femi4:
Only to japa...to what end if we cant retain them

It's none of your business what they chose to do with their degrees. You didn't earn it on their behalf.

victorVIC1:
It's none of your business what they chose to do with their degrees. You didn't earn it on their behalf.

Its my business immediately it comes to social media

Afofungbemu

thomas2024:
That was then. Things have changed. I had a cousin who finished from OAU faculty of Law with a first class. During his set, he was among the three best graduating Law students at that time in OAU. He had 280+ in his UTME and one of the highest marks in Post-UTME with lot of distinctions and few Bs in his O’level.

You don't get the 4th point of casualobserver.

Your cousin got a first class in law, not that 40% of his class got first class in law.

Having strong admission credentials like your cousin's is an everyday phenomenon at top law faculties.

The guy on hoodie is the only legend i ser here.

That's more than 30% for just one department/faculty. It's impressive, yet universities in the East will be hoarding first class and people wonder why so many Yoruba folks get into tier-one law firms and law programmes at elite universities outside the country.

Just look at the abysmal percentage of first class grads between UNILAG and UNN: https://punchng.com/inside-the-struggles-of-nigerias-jobless-first-class-graduates/#google_vignette

Alcoron:
Criticizing Covenant or UI for mass producing first class degrees is very valid. It is statistically impossible.

This is a clear case of grade inflation, softening of marking standards or weakening of examination toughness.

Any of the big 5 universities can replicate this such feat yearly if the faculty so wishes, all they have to do is tweak one of the criteria and they would be an avalanche of first class. This would naturally result as there is an abundance of talents in these institutions.

Medicine and law don't need this
weakening of standards to mass produce first class students as it weakens the traditional rigorous posturing and superhuman levels often demanded. This is not your SECONDARY SCHOOL.

If the hitherto conservative universities want to make up for their sadistic past, they should award first class degrees to truly deserving students not weakening the standards, so they can grab the headlines.
It's already becoming a competition.
It is becoming an unnerving trend.

Why do we believe that the students aren't capable enough to deserve a first class?

sonnie10:
It is what it is. I blame South East schools because their children are the losers in this mind game. Others are packaging their people with first class, whether merited or not, to look good for future employment but SE is still playing by the rules.

I wonder who will employ your children when their mates are presenting with first class.

Exactly! They don't know the effects of hoarding or deliberately reducing the number of first class grads. It means poorer grads because they don't qualify for trainee positions at top firms and cannot be admitted on a competitive basis at top universities.

Ridiculous mentality. UNILAG, LASU, Covenant, Babcock and now UI are producing more than the usual number of first class grads. Once OAU joins, everything is complete. Yet Unizik is proud of less than 5% of its graduating class to have a first class.

Toosure70:
bsc graduate is equivalent to SSS 3 graduate here in SW. So be careful

Nonsensical belief! But I wouldn't really blame, but the ekwensu mentality of the administrators at eastern universities.

Evanderbright:
This particular university produce almost all the brightest graduates and undergraduates in Nigeria.
You hardly see a dull person in that school.

Unilag use to hold this mantle too but it seems paparazzi among their students has push the university backwards

You're correct!

Gerrard59:
Why do we believe that the students aren't capable enough to deserve a first class?

In a traditionally rigorous field like law, 58 out of 146 students cannot graduate with first class,
without a systematic grade inflation at play. Mind you these are very brilliant students we are talking about.

But the malignant volume of work — theoretical, practical and otherwise — demanded, often proves unsurmountable for a large percentage to achieve a first class.

I'm a UI alumnus, so I know how things work there.

Tooreda:
Interestingly, a student I once taught directly is among the students who bagged first class. There are many other testimonies. Respect your elders on nairaland.

What did you graduate with?

Don't lie ooh

Uptheante:
What did you graduate with?

Don't lie ooh

Finished from the same university. Not with First Class and not with 2:2. I think this answers your question. Besides, I've gone on to add two other degrees from the same institution. Yes,I'm a proud UIte.

The universities in the south south especially unical,uniuyo and others should learn something from the result,commonwealth scholarships and others are interested in first class and second class upper, no tests are required for commonwealth,the reason a certain region with political advantage is having a good number of commonwealth and other scholarships beneficiaries is awards of first and upper divisions degrees,it is needless,frustrating when others are doing promotional stuffs,a word is enough for wise

Gerrard59:
Exactly! They don't know the effects of hoarding or deliberately reducing the number of first class grads. It means poorer grads because they don't qualify for trainee positions at top firms and cannot be admitted on a competitive basis at top universities.

Ridiculous mentality. UNILAG, LASU, Covenant, Babcock and now UI are producing more than the usual number of first class grads. Once OAU joins, everything is complete. Yet Unizik is proud of less than 5% of its graduating class to have a first class.

The reason graduates from the region are stunted,because somebody feels,first class this and that,when it is ethnocentric and with targets.

Alcoron:
In a traditionally rigorous field like law, 58 out of 146 students cannot graduate with first class,
without a systematic grade inflation at play. Mind you these are very brilliant students we are talking about.

But the malignant volume of work — theoretical, practical and otherwise — demanded, often proves unsurmountable for a large percentage to achieve a first class.
I'm a UI alumnus, so I know how things work there.

Okay, I see. Let's see their grades when they head to law school. If the majority attain first class in LS, that means UI did a good job.

Newsmills:
The reason graduates from the region are stunted,because somebody feels,first class this and that, when it is ethnocentric and with targets.

Please explain this?