About 40,130 graduates of the Olabisi
Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, have yet to be issued their degree
certificates six years after they graduated from the institution.
According to the institution’s authorities, the graduates left the university between 2005 and 2011.
Consequently, the authorities have
concluded arrangements to ensure that the five sets of the Ogun State
Government –owned university would be handed over their certificates at
the institution’s forthcoming convocation.
The acting Vice-Chancellor of the
university, Prof. Saburi Adesanya, stated this on Thursday while
addressing journalists in Abeokuta.
According to Adesanya, the university
has now concluded plans to present the certificates to the graduands at
the ceremony billed for between October 8 and 9.
The acting Vice-Chancellor, however, said, the university had not admitted more than the number of students permitted by law.
Adesanya noted that the institution
currently has 15,000 student population, adding that it had yet to meet
the 4, 370 admission quota granted it by the National Universities
Commission.
He also assured stakeholders that the
OOU management had resolved to publish the names of its students in
order to clear the air on the population of the students it has offered
admission.
The acting Vice-Chancellor also blamed the rising wave of cultism in the higher institution on off-campus system.
Adesanya therefore called on real estate
developers and property investors to build hostels within the
university campus in order to check the menace of cultism.
Source: Punch
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