No few than 61 persons will be honoured with first class degree as 2511 students will graduate from the Federal University Lokoja, (FUL) Kogi State.
Our Kogi State Correspondent, reports that the Vice Chancellor of FUL Prof. Olayemi Durotimi Akinwunmi disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing held at the institution campus to mark the sixth and seventh combined convocation ceremony of the university.
According to the Vice Chancellor, out of the graduands, 99 will be conferred with Masters Degree, while 128 will be honoured with Postgraduate Diploma.
A breakdown of the graduands according to the university don shows that in the sixth set, 28 graduands bagged First class, 319 second class upper, 736 second class Lower, 197 third Class and three had Pass Degrees.
Prof Akinwunmi explained further that, in the seventh set, 33 bagged first class, 386 second class upper, 668 second class, 250 third class, while one student had a pass degrees.
He disclosed that in 2023, the institution was ranked 120 best University in Sub Saharan Universities, 17th in Nigeria and ninth among Federal Universities.
The Vice Chancellor posited that the University has commenced the Department of Medicine, Nursing, Engineering, while Agriculture, law, Pharmacy, Psychology and Medical laboratory sciences program he disclosed are in the pipeline.
He explained that the College of Health Sciences of the University has taken off fully with pioneer Students now in 200 level, adding that, Engineering and Nursing program will take place in the 2023/2024 academic session.
The Vice Chancellor, however, thanked former President Muhammadu Buhari for converting Federal Medical Centre Lokoja to Federal Teaching Hospital to enable the institution conduct its Medical programme
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