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The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Ayo, disclosed this during the 11th Convocation Ceremony and Conferment of Honourary Doctorate Degrees, and presentation of prizes in Ota.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a total of 1495 students graduated this academic session.
They comprised 157 first class honours, 708 second class upper honours, 513 second class lower, 118 in third class and 154 post graduate students.
Ayo said that the university has instituted strategic goals that distinguished its students as clear leaders among the comity of universities, not only in Nigeria, but in Africa.
The don identified some of the strategic goals as compulsory internship for all students to gain industry experience, additional certifications in ICT, leadership, entrepreneurship and foreign language.
Ayo also said that the goals include the introduction of Mobile Learning System for improved external and internal efficiency.
Also speaking, Dr David Oyedepo, the Chancellor of the Institution, noted that in the drive for excellence, the university has continued to blaze the trail and extend the frontiers of knowledge through research.
Oyedepo said that emphasis has been placed on converting research into tangible problem-solving products and that the effort had yielded laudable results.
He urged the Federal Government to increase the country’s annual budget for education because economic growth is the result of investment in education.
”Nigeria cannot have the desired change until our government starts investing massively in education,’’ Oyedepo said.
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