Father, son, 63 others bag First Class degrees, as Crescent University’s 12th, 13th convocations hold

By KEMI KASUMU

A father, Adebiyi Nafiu Ayinla, and his son, Adebiyi Kehinde Gbenga and 63 others have bagged First Class degrees at a combined 12th and 13th Convocations ceremony of the Crescent University, Abeokuta.

The ceremony, which held on Saturday in the Ogun State capital, saw Adebiyi Nafiu emerging as the overall best law graduate for the 2020/2021 academic session, while his son, Adebiyi Kehinde is the overall best graduating student in the Department of Accounting for the 2019/2020 academic session.

Also four distinguished personalities, including
Oba Saburi Babajide Bakre, the Agura of Gbagura Abeokuta, Dr. Mohammed Kyari Dikwa, a public financial expert and retired Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Sheikh Muhyideen Kolawole Nojimdeen Al-Kubrah, a chartered accountant and President of Muslim Association of Nigeria and Princess Rosemary Osulamku-Atu, a philanthropist and founder of Rosula Foundation, were conferred with various honourary doctorate degrees.

In his speech, Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ibraheem Gbajabiamila, revealed that 422 graduated with first degree for the 2019/2020 session, while 337 graduated in various degree programmes for the 2020/2021 session as well as 36 students, who came out with Master’s degrees for the two sessions.

The university chief, while congratulating the graduands, added that the university had, in the last two sessions, witnessed a growth in the population of students as well as scholarship from Rosula Foundation for students in all courses.

“We have also completed the College of Health Sciences leading to the commencement of Nursing, Anatomy and Physiology programmes after a visit from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for resource verification sometime in September 2021”, he revealed.

Gbajabiamila added that the Abeokuta Business School of the Crescent University equally produced its first set Master of Business Administration (MBA).

“The university had the National Universities Commission representatives for accreditation of our programmes (Business Administration and Political Science and International Studies) in which we recorded full accreditation“, he stated.

According to the vice chancellor, all the programmes being offered by the universities recorded full accreditation including, LLB Law, B.SC Computer Science, B.Sc Microbiology, B.Sc Islamic Studies, B.Sc Mass Communication, B.Sc Achitecture, B.Sc Biochemistry, B.Sc Economics, B.Sc Business Administration and B.Sc Political Science and International Relations.