Elizade University to graduate 964 students, 116 with first class
- Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, go hold combined convocation for 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 sessions on November 13.
- Vice-Chancellor talk say 884 go receive bachelor's degrees and 80 postgraduate qualifications, with 116 first-class graduates.
- Di university also announce NUC approval for MBBS programme and higher Law admission quota.
Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin for Ondo State, go graduate 964 students at its 10th and 11th combined convocation, with 116 of them finish with first-class degrees.
Di Vice-Chancellor announce di figures at a press conference on Friday. Punch give him name as Prof. Philip Oguntade, while Tribune spell am Prof. Philip Oguntunde. Di ceremony cover di 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions and e go hold on Friday, November 13, 2026.
Of di total, 884 go receive bachelor's degrees and 80 go receive postgraduate qualifications. Di undergraduate class na 358 students from 2024/2025 and 526 from 2025/2026.
Beyond di 116 first-class graduates, 398 finish with second-class upper, 299 with second-class lower, 69 with third class and two with pass degrees.
Di Vice-Chancellor talk say di results show di students' commitment, di dedication of academic staff and di university's insistence on standards and quality assurance. He talk say dem train di graduates in intellectual ability, professional competence, entrepreneurial initiative and ethical responsibility.
New programmes and accreditation
Di university talk say e don secure approval from di National Universities Commission (NUC) to start a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme after a resource verification exercise. E already dey run Nursing Science and Medical Laboratory Science.
Di Vice-Chancellor also talk say di Council of Legal Education raise di university's Law admission quota from 70 to 120 after a re-accreditation in July 2026, and say dem increase di Nursing Science quota too.
He talk say all six programmes wey dem assess during di NUC's October/November 2025 accreditation exercise get full accreditation: Law, Accounting and Finance, Microbiology, Business Administration, Human Resource Management and Computer Science.
He talk say di third set of Nursing Science graduates record 100 per cent success in di Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife examinations, while Medical Laboratory Science students and di 2024/2025 Law graduates wey sit di Nigerian Law School Bar examinations also record 100 per cent success.
He add say dem introduce Mechatronics Engineering, Software Engineering and Public Health, and say postgraduate Architecture programmes wey lead to M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees get NUC approval.
On research, he talk say di Department of Biological Sciences win an ERASMUS+ grant worth £385,094, and say di university plan a China-Africa Joint Research Laboratory with di Northwest Institute of Ecological Environment and Resources of di Chinese Academy of Sciences.
What happens next
Di convocation lecture go be delivered by di Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, on Thursday, November 12, at di newly completed 2,500-capacity Beatrice Ademolawe Ojo Multipurpose Auditorium.
Di university go confer an honorary doctoral degree on Justice Babatunde Adejumo, Administrator of di National Judicial Institute. Di main ceremony go hold on Friday, November 13, followed by a thanksgiving service at St. Michael's Anglican Church, Ilara-Mokin, on Sunday, November 15.
For families in Ondo and beyond, di event mark another set of graduates wey dey enter di job market, many in law, health and technology fields where di university talk say its students don do well in professional exams.
