UNIPORT graduates 18,378 students, 78 bag first class degrees

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Ndowa Lale, said on Friday that 78 of its 18, 378 graduating students finished in the First Class Division.

Lale, who disclosed this at the 31th convocation news briefing in Port Harcourt, said the conferment of degrees, higher degrees, diploma, certificates and prizes would hold at the university from March 24 to March 25.

The Vice-Chancellor said that the 14,715 graduating students from 10 Faculties were drawn from 2014 to 2016 academic sessions.

The faculties include Faculty of Science, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Management Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences.

Others are School of Science Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Engineering, and College of Health Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Lale said the convocation would kick-off with a lecture by Prof. Jonas Redwood-Sawyer, Vice-Chancellor of University of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the Board of the West African Examinations Council on March 23.

According to him, the university was faced with dwindling statutory allocations compounded by the Treasure Single Account (TSA) which had made running of the university a daunting task

“In spite this challenge, we have completed rehabilitation of 15 hostel accommodations; nine lecture halls and classrooms in collaboration with the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS).

Source: The Nation