No fewer than 339 students of Covenant University in the Ota area of Ogun State have bagged first class honours in the 2023/2024 academic session.

The Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Prof. Abiodun Adebayo, disclosed this during the 19th convocation ceremony of the university in Ota on Friday, October 11, 2024.

Adebayo said 1,456 students graduated in the 2023/2024 academic session.

This, according to him, comprised 339 students who made first class, 762 second class upper honours, 330 second class lower, 25 with third class, and 151 in the postgraduate categories.

Sanni Oluwademilade, a student in the Department of Industrial Mathematics, College of Mathematics, emerged as the best-graduating student with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.99.

Adebayo said: “The release of Eagles 2024 will join our network of over 24,000 Covenant Eagles, who are already soaring globally, building the old wastes and raising the former desolations.

“The university is immensely grateful to God as another cohort of new generation leaders are being unleashed in the ecosphere as agents of positive change in our nation, continent and the world.”

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The Covenant University VC added that the university had been ranked by Higher Times Education in the World Universities Ranking 2025 as the best university in Nigeria and number one in West Africa.

Also speaking at the event, the Chancellor of Covenant University, Bishop David Oyedepo, said the passion of the university came alive to provide an alternate education in terms of quality that would rescue young individuals from lifelong crises.

According to him, from the onset, there was an understanding that Covenant University was heading to become one of the best in the world.

He said: “No wonder it has been an award-winning university almost since its inception.

“As you know, we are one of the most subscribed private universities in Nigeria today, to the glory of God.”

The Chancellor stated that the university was solving character problems among young people and committed to remain a solution-bearing institution.

In his address, the Pro-Chancellor of the university, Bishop David Abioye, enjoined the students to exercise patience in all of their endeavours as they graduate from the citadel of learning.

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