No fewer than 337 graduates bagged first class as the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi prepares to hold its 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th Combined convocation ceremony scheduled to take place on the 24th of February, 2024.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Muhammad Ahmad Abdulazeez stated this during a pre-convocation press conference held at the Gubi Campus of the university on Monday.
He stated that the University would be graduating a total of 19,252 students including 404 diplomas, 15,460 undergraduates, 1,653 Postgraduate Diplomas,1,559 Masters and 176 PhDs.
According to him, 337 students bagged 1st Class, 5,489 bagged 2nd Class Upper, 7,241 bagged 2nd Class Lower, l,867 bagged 3rd Class while 526 had pass degrees.
“The combined Convocation ceremony will start on Thursday, 22nd February, 2024 with the commissioning of 19 different projects completed in the last four years. These projects are spread in both the Gubi and Yelwa campuses.
“We are inviting several dignitaries to commission these projects. These include the Executive Governor of Bauchi State, His Excellency, Senator Bala Mohammed, the Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Dr Dikko Umaru Radda, the Honourable Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, the Honourable Minister of Health, Dr Ali Pate and all the three Senators representing Bauchi state.”
“On Friday, 23rd February 2024, there will be a convocation Lecture which will be delivered by 4:00 pm at the 1000-seat capacity lecture theatre, Yelwa Campus. A Professor of Media studies, Umar Pate, will deliver the lecture with the topic, “Education and Nigeria’s National Integration in the Digital Age: Matters Arising”.
The lecture will simultaneously hold along with an exhibition from various departments of the University at the same venue to showcase some of our break-through in research and fabrication”
“The third day of the ceremony will be held at the convocation square of the University here on the Gubi campus. It will feature the graduation of four sets of graduates. It is significant to mention here that we are graduating our first set of 25 medical doctors from this University” he said
The Vice-Chancellor said that the University Senate has approved the award of honourary Doctorate degrees to five distinguished Nigerians who will be honoured on the convocation day.
