President Muhammadu Buhari has urged all
universities in the country to stamp out all forms of academic and
financial corruption, social vices and sexual harassment which continue
to tarnish the reputation of Nigeria’s citadels of learning.
The president said this in a message delivered at the 29th and
30th combined convocation ceremony of University of Jos which took place
at the Jeremiah T. Useni Mini Stadium inside the Naraguta Campus of the
university permanent site at the weekend.
The president said the government will deal decisively with any
university council that fails to deal with reported cases of sexual
harassment in their institutions.
In an address read by his representative, the Executive Secretary
of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Rasheed
Abubakar, President Buhari said all the universities must also
demonstrate commitment to the core values of honesty, integrity
transparency and the rule of law in order to play any major role in
Nigeria’s social, economic, political and cultural transformation.
Meanwhile, a total of 18,348 graduates were awarded degrees with
the following classifications: 33 Distinction/First Class honours; 1,950
have Second Class honours (Upper Division); 5,738 have Second Class
honours (Lower Division); 3,149 have Third Class degree, while 351 have
pass.
Others are 734 with Pass Qualified (Medicine and Pharmacy), 399
Diploma, 103 Post Graduate Diploma, 2,906 Post Graduate Programme (M.A
and M.Sc), 165 Ph.D and 2,820 backlog.
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