fewer than 78 first class degree holders at its 39th convocation
ceremony heldrecently in the institution.
The Vice- Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Bamitale Omole, stated
this onThursday during the ceremony, which witnessed the conferment of
5, 249 first degrees and 3, 363 postgraduate degrees on students.
Mr. Omole while quoting from the latest Web-o-metric ranking, he
affirmed that OAU ranked first in research among Nigerian
universities, noting that the transparency, justice and integrity has
been their watch word in the institution and will continue to be their
guiding principles.
He said, "In furtherance to its claim as the number one IT university
in Nigeria, OAU recently competed for and won a $2.7m Cloud Computing
and Telepresence Facility. This achievement makes our university the
only university in Nigeria with hi-tech facility.
"While other universities still use the iLab developed and made by
MIT, OAU has developed her own iLab and this has helped us in solving
some of the basic needs of experimentation."
Omole however challenged the graduates to be steadfast and provide
solutions to the challenges of life, assuring that the rigorous
training by OAU will be very useful to the graduates in the nearest
future.
"As graduates of Ife, we expect you to come up with innovative ideas
in job creation and entrepreneurial skills which will stand you in
good stead in settling down quickly to making your marks in national
development," The institution graduated 78 first class holders, 1,161
second class upper, 2,260 second class lower degrees and 877 third
class degrees.