… 7 rusticated,17 advised to withdraw
Niger State owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai would be issued first class degree certificates to thirty seven graduates in its 4th combined convocation slated for this Saturday.
This is as he stated that Seventeen students were advised to withdraw because they could not cope with academical activities and seven others rusticated based on various misconduct.
In a pre – convocation press briefing on Tuesday in Minna, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abu Kasim Adamu disclosed that a total of 954 graduates would be presented with second class upper certificates, while 3, 283 would get second class lower division.
He added that a total of 1,538 will be graduating with a 3rd class degree and 17 others with a Pass.
While disclosing that those involved in the combined Convocation are the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 graduands, the Vice- Chancellor said that 5,719 of the students will be from the undergraduate while 435 students are from the Post Graduate Diploma (PGD), Masters degrees Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
In his breakdown, Prof. Adamu said the PhD has 2 graduands, Master of Arts 19, Master of Sciences 92, Master of Education 68, Professional Masters 204 and Postgraduate 50.