No fewer than 16,409 students will be graduating during a week-long activity marking the 55th convocation season at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
The convocation is scheduled to commence with a Juma’at service at the institution’s central mosque on January 10 and end on the 17th.
Folasade Ogunsola, the institution’s vice-chancellor, addressed the press during a pre-convocation briefing on Wednesday.
She said Babatunde Raji Fashola, former governor of Lagos state, will be the chairman of the occasion.
The VC said the convocation lecture will be themed “Universities as Hubs for Development and Wealth Creation”.
She said it will be delivered by Tayo Aduloju, the CEO of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), at the J.F. Ade-Ajayi Auditorium.
Speaking of the graduating students, Ogunsola said the current set recorded 16,409 graduating students, of which 9,684 are for first degrees and diplomas.
The VC said 6,659 will be awarded postgraduate degrees while 66 will graduate from the UNILAG Business School.
She gave the breakdown of the award results as 561 first-class degrees/distinctions, 3,916 second-class upper degrees (2.1), and 763 second-class lower (2.2) degrees.
Ogunsola said the results also showed that 1,143 third-class degrees, 78 passes, and 223 unclassified degrees would be conferred.
Ogunsola said honorary degrees will be handed out in recognition to three personalities who had distinguished themselves in scholarship, made ground-breaking discoveries, or contributed significantly to academic/societal development.
This includes an honorary doctorate to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
The VC named one Olamide Emida as the best-graduating student, who is from the department of accounting with a CGPA of 4.95.
Ogunsola said that the overall best Ph.D. thesis award for 2025 will go to Adetoun Alaba Akitoye, who obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry while the best Ph.D. thesis (humanities) will be awarded to Eniola Ladipo.