Forty-Three UI Students Bag First Class

The Dean, Faculty of Technology in the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olaosebikan Fakolujo, on Thursday, disclosed that 43 graduating students of the faculty bagged first class, while 112 made a second class upper division.

Fakolujo disclosed this at the induction of 293 2018/2019 graduates of the faculty as members of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.

He said, “I am highly excited to inform this gathering that 43 of them, which constitute 14.7 per cent, graduated with First Class Honours. Two are from the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, one is from the Department of Civil Engineering, 18 are from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 are from the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, nine are from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and three are from the Department of Petroleum Engineering.”

“A total of 112 graduated with Second Class Honours, Upper Division; while 127 of them graduated with Second Class Honours, Lower Division; 10 with Third Class Honours and one graduated with a pass.”

In another development, the Management of Babcock University has reacted to a now-viral video that showed one of its 100-level students being assaulted by a colleague over slippers.

This news medium reports that two students of the varsity were involved in a scuffle, with one alleging the other wore a pair of his slippers without permission.