Pastor Adeboye receives honorary doctorate degrees; as UNILAG employs first class graduates

                               

The University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, plans to employ some of the 125 first class students, who will graduate today and Wednesday.

Its Vice Chancellor, Prof Rahamon Bello, said two of the best in each programme would be employed as graduate assistants.

Bello, who said this at a pre-convocation briefing to announce the 2013/2014 convocation held in the university’s Senate Chambers, said their employment was ratified by the Governing Council.

This year, 10,600 graduates will be awarded undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, diplomas as well as certificates.

With a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.96, Korede Akinpelu of the Chemical Engineering Department will lead the 5,836 undergraduates to receive their first degrees.

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, and Lt-General Theophilus Danjuma will be awarded honorary doctorate degrees on the same day.

Onosode will be conferred with a Doctor of Letters degree, Pastor Adeboye and Danjuma will be awarded Doctor of Science degrees.

A convocation lecture titled: “Taking Advantage of a Depressing Nigerian Economy to Accelerate Socio-Economic Development” will be delivered by Prof Peter Okebukola, former executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC).

The lecture, to be chaired by Mr Hakeem Belo-Osagie, will hold at the main auditorium of the university.