Ozibo Ekele
A Nigerian man, Ozibo Ekele has become the first person to bag a
First Class from the Department of History since the foundation of the
University of Ibadan. The was made public at the 2015/2016 convocation
ceremony on Monday with 186 students finishing in the first class
category.
Ekele graduated with a cumulative Grade Point Average of 6.6 out of a maximum of 7.0.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Idowu Olayinka,
said that a total of 5,629 students from various programmes, including
those from the Distance Learning Centre, were awarded first degree
certificates at the ceremony.The VC said that 1,538 graduating students
finished in the Second Class Upper division, while 3,133 finished in the
Second Class Lower division. According to him, 434 students finished in
the third class with 81 students finishing with pass.
Explaining why the university was unable to graduate final year
students in the 2016/2017 academic year, Olayinka said that various
strikes embarked upon by the teaching and non-teaching staff of
universities across Nigeria had prevented the students from writing
their final examinations early.
He said, “I am aware that there have been, of recent, strident
public criticism of the large number of First Class graduates from our
universities. I hasten to add that we are exceedingly proud of all
Ibadan graduates. We see this phenomenon from the strategic point of
view of input-process-output.
“In specific terms, the university has arguably the most
competitive mechanism for undergraduate admission in the country. This
has been attested to consistently by the Times Higher Education World
University rankings in which UI is the only university in the country
ranked among the topmost 801-1,000 universities in the world.”
The overall best graduating student from the Faculty of Law,
Tolulope Ogunmodede, who spoke on behalf of others, said that he relied
on hard work and prayer to achieve the feat.
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