Olanipekun, Dabiri-Erewa For ABUAD Award As 229 Graduates Get First Class

Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD) is to honour 3 eminent Nigerians arsenic the instauration is acceptable to clasp its 16th convocation ceremony.

The university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Smaranda Olarinde, disclosed this connected Tuesday during her property conference, heralding the 16th convocation ceremonies of the institution: 229 of the 1,841 students volition postgraduate with archetypal class.

Olarinde said the 3 deserving Nigerians volition beryllium conferred with the university’s honorary degrees during the expansive finale of the convocation connected Tuesday, October 21, 2025.

The honourees are a renowned ineligible practitioner and 20th President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians successful Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Dr Abike Dabiri ( Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa), and concern mogul Princess (Dr) Mrs Rosemary Osula Mku-Atu.

The VC explained wherefore they were selected to beryllium honoured: “It is based connected their proven integrity, character, exceptional and distinguished beingness contributions to society, and appreciation of the assorted ways they person impacted nine successful antithetic areas of their callings.”

Olarinde said Chief Wole Olanipekun (san) would present the convocation lecture “Nigeria—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; The Imperative of a Sober and Definitive Recalibration” connected Monday, October 20.

The VC, who said that ABUAD had cumulatively graduated 15,115 students since its maiden convocation successful October 2013, said, “A full of 1,841 students volition beryllium officially conferred with assorted degrees during the 16th convocation ceremonies”

She said that 229 students bagged First Class, 625 got Second Class Upper, 262 got Second Class Lower, 194 students bagged Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and 10 students bagged Bachelor of Optometry.

She called connected the authorities to prioritise fixing Ado-Ijan-Ikare Federal Road, which she said serves arsenic a superior entree way to the assemblage but remains deplorable.

“I erstwhile again appeal, arsenic I did past year, that this roadworthy beryllium urgently rehabilitated, reconstructed and fixed. The roadworthy should beryllium treated arsenic a priority. ABUAD hosts students from 36 states of the federation and planetary students; the way is simply a cardinal nexus roadworthy to the airport, Ondo state, and Abuja, FCT.

The Professor of instrumentality congratulated the Ekiti authorities authorities connected the support granted by the NCAA to the state’s cargo airdrome for the commencement of scheduled (commercial) flights and charged the authorities to expedite each indispensable processes to guarantee that afloat commercialized operations commence without delay.