Nasarawa State College, Keffi has produced 82 first-class graduates forward of its eighth mixed convocation ceremony and twenty fifth anniversary celebration scheduled for April 11.
Talking at a press briefing in Keffi, the Vice-Chancellor, Sa’adatu Hassan-Liman, disclosed that the establishment would graduate over 25,000 college students throughout undergraduate and postgraduate ranges.
She defined that the convocation would cowl three tutorial periods—2022/2023, 2023/2024, and 2024/2025—highlighting the college’s rising tutorial output.
The Vice-Chancellor additionally revealed that the establishment would confer honorary doctorate levels on distinguished personalities, together with Abdul Samad Rabiu, founder and chairman of BUA Group, and Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, in recognition of their contributions to humanity.
She added {that a} third awardee, Dr. Mahmood Ahmad, would even be honoured, in step with laws of the Nationwide Universities Fee limiting honorary doctorate recipients to a few.
In response to Hassan-Liman, the convocation and silver jubilee celebrations will function a spread of actions, together with an interdenominational church service, particular Juma’at prayers, sanitation train, and medical outreach within the host group.
Different highlights embody a novelty soccer match between the college’s Vice-Chancellor crew and that of Bingham College, in addition to a silver jubilee lecture and conventional convocation lecture.
The ceremony will conclude with the commissioning of tasks and the formal award of levels to graduating college students.
The Vice-Chancellor expressed appreciation to stakeholders for his or her contributions to the expansion and improvement of the establishment since its institution.
By Umar Muhammed
The Nasarawa State College, Keffi, has produced 82 top quality graduates as it’s set to award levels to 1000’s of scholars in its forthcoming eighth mixed convocation and the twenty fifth anniversary of the establishment on April 11.
At a press briefing in Keffi, the College’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sa’adatu Hassan-Liman disclosee that the establishment which has about 11 schools, is graduating over 25,000 college students, stating that the convocation would cowl each undergraduates and postgraduate college students of three units.
She added that the establishment has additionally conferred honorary doctorate levels on the founder and chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and the President of Tanzania, Samia Hassan, for his or her excellent contributions to humanity and society as an entire.
She, nevertheless, disclosed that honorary doctorate levels shall be conferred on the BUA Group chairman and the Tanzanian President, alongside one different awardee, in step with the principles of the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC).
Her phrases, “For the honorary levels award, we’ve got earmarked to honour three personalities, in accordance with the principles and laws of the NUC and in addition in accordance with the Keffi declaration, which has pegged the variety of honorary doctorate diploma awardees at no more than three.
“The three awardees embody the President of Tanzania, Her Excellency, Madam Samia Suluhu Hassan, who shall be given an honorary diploma on that day. We even have Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu of BUA Industries; he can even be awarded. And lastly, we’ve got Dr Mahmood Ahmad, who can even obtain an honorary diploma.
“These three persons are going to be awarded on that day, along with the bachelor’s and postgraduate diploma awardees.”
The Vice-Chancellor, whereas revealing that over 25,000 graduates of the college from the 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 tutorial periods will attend the convocation ceremony, defined {that a} complete of 82 college students bagged first-class levels.
The vice chancellor, subsequently, famous that a number of different actions have been earmarked for the eighth mixed convocation ceremony, which additionally marks the college’s twenty fifth anniversary.
“Among the occasions embody an interdenominational church service, particular Juma’at prayers, sanitation train, medical outreach within the college’s host group, amongst others.
“We can even have a novelty soccer match on Thursday between the VC of NSUK crew and the VC of Bingham College crew.
“On Friday, we can have a few of our main occasions, which embody a Silver Jubilee lecture and later our conventional convocation lecture.
“On Saturday, we’ll begin with the commissioning of tasks at 9 a.m. earlier than continuing to the convocation floor for the ceremony,” the vice concluded.
She appreciated everybody who contributed, in a method or one other, to the expansion and improvement of the establishment since its institution.
Times Nigeria