Pastor Adeboye, Two Others Bag UNN Honorary Degrees
as Varsity Graduates 12,500
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) will tomorrow
confer an honorary doctoral degree on the General Overseer Worldwide of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, as activities of
the university's 46th convocation took off yesterday.
Pastor Adeboye is an alumnus of the university
where he studied Mathematics graduating in 1966.
Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Benjamin
Ozumba, who made the disclosure at a press briefing which kicked off the
programmes to mark the 46th convocation of the university, said a total of 12,
448 students would also bag different degrees.
He disclosed that 10,425 would be for first
degrees, diploma and certificates, while 2,023 would be for post graduate
diploma, Master’s degree and Doctors of Philosophy degrees.
A breakdown of the degrees showed that 94 got 1st
class honours; 3,098, 2nd class upper; 5,145, 2nd class lower; 1,653, 3rd
class; 121 pass; 314 unclassified and 93
diploma.
According to Ozumba, in keeping with the tradition
of UNN, Adeboye and two other prominent Nigerians would be conferred with
honorary doctorate.
They include Emeka Okwuosa and John Obinna Chukwu.
Ozumba, who expressed delight at the UNN's position
in the 2016 WEBOMETRICS ranking of universities, posited that the university
would continue to remain at the top among Nigerian universities.
According to him, UNN had maintained the enviable
position for three consecutive times.
"Having retained that enviable position
consecutively for three rankings, we now consider it our birth right to remain
at the top and we are not ready to abdicate that position anytime soon.
"Our gaze is now fixed on the number one
position in Africa and we are upbeat about it," Ozumba declared.
The university don used the occasion to emphasise
that staff welfare was uppermost in his administration, saying they ensured that the university workers were
paid their salaries promptly as well as promoted in due course.
"It may interest you to know that within the
past two years, over 75 senior lecturers have been promoted to professors. This is unprecedented," he pointed out.
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