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281 to Bag First Class as University of Lagos (UNILAG) Graduates 15,753

The University of Lagos has announced that 15,753 students will graduate during its 51st convocation ceremony, which will take place from July 6 to 8. Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Institution’s Vice Chancellor, said this at a pre-convocation news conference on Wednesday in Lagos, saying that 281 of the graduates will earn first-class degrees. Mr Ogundipe said that the best graduate, Alimi Adedeji of the Faculty of Science, had a cumulative gradient point average (CGPA) of 4.98 out of a possible 5 points. “Let me also add that a female graduand, Opeyemi Popoola, of the department of economics is this year’s best graduating student with a CGPA of 4.90,” the… Read more »

University of Lagos (UNILAG) African Cluster Centre (ACC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in African and Diaspora Studies 2021

The African Cluster Centre at the University of Lagos (Nigeria) is presently taking applications for its postdoctoral fellowship in African and Diaspora Studies, which will be awarded in 2021. Applications… Read more »

Anxiety mounts over fate of 13, 000 UNILAG graduates

The future of over 13, 000 graduates of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, is in jeopardy after the university failed to provide them with graduation certificates. As a result, students enrolled in the 2018/2019 academic year were unable to participate in the obligatory National Youth Service Corps, or NYSC, program. The medical graduates who have not been recognized by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, a body whose affiliation they need to obtain a license to practice the noble profession, have been hit the hardest by the rise. Dawodu told a press conference in Abuja that the fate of the affected students prompted him to pursue a solution, especially for medical students whose hopes for a… Read more »