62 Graduates Bag First Class In UNIBEN

A total of 8,782 graduates will be turned out at the convocation ceremony of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Wednesday,  November 27, with 62 first class honours; 1,416 in the second class upper division and with 1,296 graduating with master’s degrees.

Vice Chancellor of  UNIBEN, Professor Osayuki Godwin Osodin, has also raised the alarm over threat to security in the university and the menace of erosion already ravaging the institution.www.mannastores.com


Professor Osodin, who raised the alarm during a pre-37th convocation/41st founder’s day  press briefing at the university’s Senate Chamber in Benin City,  said the institution’s “security department has been put on the red alert, especially as a result of a recent challenge by the threat of bomb blasts allegedly traced to the Boko Haram sect.”

Besides, Professor Oshodin said the authorities of UNIBEN had introduced new security measures on the campus “to check any ugly incident on the campus which enable us to contain the threat.”

The vice chancellor also said that “the university is currently being threatened by gully erosion which is moving at a speed of about 500 meters a year,” pointing out that the university had written to relevant agencies like the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Federal Ministry of Niger Delta about the problems.