{"id":72010,"date":"2023-05-17T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=72010"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:21:26","slug":"37-ibrahim-badamasi-babangida-university-lapai-students-bag-first-class-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/37-ibrahim-badamasi-babangida-university-lapai-students-bag-first-class-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai Students Bag First Class Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as four prominent Nigerians bag Phd honorary degrees<\/p>\n<p>No fewer than 37 undergraduate students of the Niger State&#8217;s owned\u00a0 Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University(IBBU) Lapai have bagged first class degree in various departments as the university\u00a0 holds its 4th combined graduation on Saturday, 20th May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72012 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/images-1.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/images-1-110x106.jpeg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Abu Kasim Adamu, made the disclosure on\u00a0 Tuesday at the Conference Hall of the IBBUL&#8217;s Guest House\u00a0 \u00a0in Minna the state capital in\u00a0 a pre \u2013 convocation press briefing\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>He stated that almost all the first class graduands are female, saying\u00a0 that \u201cit is gratifying to note that girls have taken up the academic excellence of our university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the VC, \u201ca total of 5,719 students will be graduating for the 2019\/2020 and 2020\/2021 academic sessions.\u00a0 37 of them made first class, 954 got second class upper while 3,283 made second class lower.\u201d He added that 1,538 other students got third class.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Prof. Adamu\u00a0 said, &#8220;17 other students were withdrawn from the university, for drugs and cult-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>He stated further\u00a0 that four prominent persons were scheduled to be honoured with the Honorary Doctorate degrees of the university at the convocation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Those to be honoured, according to him, are Plateau State Governor, Mr. Simon Bako Lalong, , Honorary Doctorate Degree of Administration; Colonel Sani Bello, (rtd)Chairman, Mainstream Energy Solutions and the Father of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, (the outgoing Governor of Niger State),\u00a0 Honorary Doctorate Degree of Humane Letters, Malam Ibrahim Aliyu, Chairman, Aliyu Trust Foundation, Honorary Doctorate Degree of Entrepreneurship Development; and Alhaji AbdulSamad Isyaku Rabiu, Chairman, BUA Group, Honorary Doctorate Degree of Business Management.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 37 undergraduate students of the Niger State&#8217;s owned\u00a0 Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University(IBBU) Lapai have bagged first class degree in various departments as the university\u00a0 holds its 4th combined graduation on Saturday, 20th May 2023.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130,17],"tags":[10124],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-72010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-education","category-news","tag-ibrahim-badamasi-babangida-university-lapai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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