Chrisland University, Abeokuta, will graduate 25 First Class and 94 Second Class Upper among a total of its 185 graduands at its sixth convocation scheduled for Tuesday, The Courage.
The outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Chinedum Babalola, disclosed this at a press briefing held on Monday.
Babalola said that Omodehin Oluwasemilore with a CGPA of 4.99 from the Department of Psychology emerged as the best-graduating student while Emmanuel Chineye and Hannah Elegbede from Mass Communication and Mathematics Departments emerged as the best-behaved male and female categories respectively.
Going down memory lane, the Vice-Chancellor said that the school which had a population of about 57 students when she came in November 2017 with nine programmes now runs 24 accredited programmes with a student population of over 1500. Babalola said, “I came in from the University of Ibadan where I had been the Dean Faculty of Pharmacy.
“And hearing the encouraging story of our founder, Dr Mrs Winifred Awosika who said she started the Chrisland schools which now has a University with five kids strengthened my faith. I felt that if she could do it, I should be able to do it by God’s grace and it has been forward ever”
The Babalola said that the school had continued to raise the bar of academic excellence with 100 per cent accreditation of all its programmes while the students had also been coming out top of their studies either at the national or international level.
Since obtaining its provisional license in 2017 and permanent approval in 2019, the university has grown from seven graduates in its first convocation to 185 at this latest event.
Prof. Babalola urged the Federal Government to revise the law governing the Nigerian Education Loan Fund to include students from private tertiary institutions, asserting that all Nigerian students deserve access to educational loans, regardless of their institution. The convocation also featured the induction of the first cohort of 22 nursing graduates into the Midwifery and Nursing Council of Nigeria.
