Osun: 35 students bag first class in virtual UNIOSUN graduation

The Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University expressed delight after the schools virtual convocation ceremony saw 35 student graduate with first class honours. The school graduated 1,946 student virtually due the effect of the novel coronavirus.

The Nation reports that the management of the school sent convocation kits to graduates through courier service. Ninety-five per cent of the graduating students registered to be part of the ceremony.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Labode Popoola, said: “Thirty-five students got first class, while 603 came out with second class upper, 972 made second class lower, while 274 fell in third class.

The Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, New York, Prof. Jeffery D.Sachs, who delivered the convocation lecture, said: “It is the positive side that we can be together virtually at least if we can’t always be together in physical presence. But I look forward to the day when I can come to visit your wonderful university and campus personally. I’m very excited about that.”

Governor Adegboyega Oyetola urged universities to lead the society out of the challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic.

He enjoined them to look inward and invest more in researches, innovations and technologies as a permanent way to prepare the world for eventualities that may come in future.