Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Osun State has planned its 44th convocation ceremony.
The event, which holds between Wednesday December 11th and Saturday December 14th 2019, is for 7,209 graduating students who have successfully completed their undergraduate and post graduate programmes in the university.
Confirming this in Ife, the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, disclosed that 124 would be graduating with first class honours in bachelor’s degrees.
He also confirmed that four eminent Africans would be conferred with the prestigious honorary doctorate degrees.
According to him, the awardees are the President of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, the Nigeria’s finest marketing communications practitioner, Mr. Biodun Olusina Shobanjo; the President of the African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK), Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah and the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the First Bank of Nigeria Plc., Mrs. IbukunOluwa Abiodun Awosika.
Speaking further, Ogunbodede said the OAU has concluded arrangements to introduce entrepreneurial courses to equip its students with requisite skills to carve niches for themselves to be self sustainable.
He said the measure was part of efforts of the university to proffer solutions to the unemployment challenges facing teeming number of graduates being churned out yearly by tertiary institutions across the country.
