The Vice chancellor of the Kwara State University, Malete, Prof. Mohammed Akanbi (SAN), has announced that the university would be graduating 6,620 students at this year’s convocation.
3,864 students, he said, are for the 2019/2020 session while 2,756 are for the 2020/2021 session.
This, according to the Nation Newspaper, was made known during a press conference with journalists in the Malete Moro local government area ahead of the institution’s convocation festivities this weekend.
According to him, 96 first degree students would be bagging first-class at this year’s convocation.
He added that the school would be graduating 321 students for higher degrees in the 2019/2020 session and 96 in the 2020/2021 session.
Speaking of students’ misconduct , the vice chancellor said “The Kwara State University has zero-tolerance for indiscipline and misconduct. All cases of indiscipline were investigated and appropriate punitive measures were taken against students found guilty of such offences. This is to ensure that the few bad eggs among students do not contaminate the decent ones.”
He added that “Between 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 academic sessions, a total of 87 students were expelled from the university. Their expulsion followed investigation and establishment of their guilt by the Students Disciplinary Committee.”
Some of the students were also expelled, according to the university, for allegedly engaging in examination misconduct and drug usage.
“Students are also vulnerable and exposed to anti-social influences which are inimical to their health and academic career”, Professor Akanbi said while imploring the federal government and the National Universities Commission (NUC) to develop regulations that make living on campus mandatory for all students in Nigeria’s higher institutions.
He added that his administration is working very hard to reverse this trend. Accommodation for a greater percentage of students on the university campus is one of the ways he envisages to solve the challenge.
