No fewer than 69 of the 10, 255 graduating students will be conferred with First Class degrees as Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) set to hold combined 30th, 31st and 32nd convocation ceremony.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ndukwe Okeudo, who said this at a press conference on Tuesday, noted that the ceremony is scheduled for March 27 at the University Pavilion.
He said that 3, 973 would be graduating with Second Class Upper, 4, 764 with Second Class Lower and 195 with Third Class.
Giving further breakdown, Okeudo said that 205 will be awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), 369 with Masters and 116 with Postgraduate Diploma (PGD).
Okeudo further disclosed that Honorary Doctorate Degrees would be awarded to distinguished personalities who made remarkable contributions to national development.
He said that the awardees include His Royal Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; Chief Executive Officer, Air Peace Limited, Chief Allen Onyema, and Managing Director, Emzor Pharmaceuticals Limited, Dr Stella Okolie.
He said that the Pre-Convocation Lecture would take place on March 26 at the University Auditorium, and would be delivered by Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Mines and Power and Chief Executive Officer of Geometric Power Group.
The vice-chancellor said that the university with a population of about 27,000 students was one of the pioneer conventional state universities in the country established in 1981.
The ABSU boss boasted that the institution ranked the second best State University and 16th overall in webometric ranking of Universities in Nigeria in 2025.
Okeudo revealed that Gov. Alex Otti, who is the Visitor to the school, would undertake an inspection tour of several projects initiated by his administration within the university as well as inaugurate the newly renovated student hostels on campus.
He commended the governor for his massive interventions in various areas of the university, including renovation and retrofitting of the previously dilapidated hostels among others.
(NAN)
