By Henry Oladele
The Lagos State University (LASU) said it would graduate 20,604 students at its 29th and 30th Combined Convocation Ceremonies for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic sessions.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, disclosed this on Wednesday at a news conference at the university’s main campus, Ojo.
Olatunji-Bello said that the convocation would be historic as it would reflect the university’s commitment to academic stability, institutional resilience and continuous advancement.
She noted that the ceremonies would be her final as vice-chancellor of the institution.
“For the 2024-2025 academic session, 947 students graduated from diploma programmes,” she said.
She said that 65 of the students made distinction while 521 graduated with upper credit and 354, lower credit, and seven, pass.
“A total of 7,621 students graduated from first-degree programmes during the session, including 262 first-class graduates and 106 unclassified MBBS-BDS graduates.
“The first-degree graduates comprised 3,155 second-class upper, 3,439 second-class lower, 622 third class and 37 pass graduates,” she said.
She said that Mr Ayilara Olawale of the Department of Project Management emerged the overall best graduating student for the 2024-2025 session, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.96.
“For 2025-2026, 44 students graduated from diploma programmes, comprising 33 upper-credit and 11 lower-credit graduates.
“The university recorded 8,653 first-degree graduates during the session, including 232 first-class graduates.
“The figure also comprised 3,545 second-class upper, 4,157 second-class lower, 678 third-class, and 31 pass graduates,” she added.
She said that Mr Adebanjo Samuel of the Department of Aerospace Engineering emerged the overall best graduating student for the 2025-2026 session, with a CGPA of 4.97.
Olatunji-Bello said that 3,383 postgraduate students would also graduate across the two academic sessions.
She said that the postgraduate graduands comprised 618 postgraduate diploma, 1,508 academic master’s and 900 professional master’s graduates.
“Others are 238 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) graduates and 119 professional doctoral graduates.
The vice chancellor congratulated the graduands and commended their parents, guardians, lecturers and staff for contributing to their academic achievements.(NAN)
