68 students graduated with first-class honours during the 2018/2019 convocation of Bell University, Ota, in Ogun State on Saturday.
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jeremiah Ojediran, gave the figure at the institution’s 11th convocation, conferment of honorary doctorate degrees.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 1,049 students graduated for the 2018/2019 academic session.
They comprised 68 with first-class honours; 474 with second class upper honours and 328 with second class lower. Others are 63 with third class, while 116 had postgraduate degrees.
Ojediran said that the institution was responding to changes in needs of society by embarking on intensive research and development.
“There is the need for increased commitment to providing appropriate infrastructure to conduct excellent research. And fostering knowledge development so as to create a positive future for higher education and society,’’ he said.
The VC said that the university had opened skills development and resource centre to empower students. And enable them to positively channel their strength, innovation and imagination to human development.
He said that the university was also at an advanced stage of reactivating a working relationship. And collaboration with the ICT University, Baton Rouge, USA.
Earlier, Dr Wilson Badejo, Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the institution, disclosed his achievement within 14 years.
Badejo said within 14-year of the institution’s existence, it had recorded remarkable achievement due to the support of the founders.
He said that the university would continue to make contributions to the development of education in Nigeria. Miss Hamzat Temitope, a student in the Department of Economics, College of Management Sciences, emerged the best student with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.95.
(NAN)
