The Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State, has matriculated a total of 1,930 students for the 2021/2022 academic session.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abiodun Adebayo, disclosed this while addressing the students in Ota, on Friday.
Adebayo said that being bonafide students guaranteed them the right and privileged of studentship, having subscribed to the oath of allegiance of the University.
He said that the 1,930 students comprised 1,807 undergraduate students and 123 postgraduate students.
He added that the university had produced over 20,000 graduates with all excelling in their various professions.
“The University has continued to receive national and global validations on the positive impact of its unique approach to tertiary education,” Adebayo said.
Earlier, the Chancellor of the University, Dr David Oyedepo, said that the institution’s training was geared towards raising a new generation of leaders through a broad-based qualitative education.
“The institution’s mandate is powered by our rounding philosophy of departing from skill, knowledge to empowerment, figures to future-building, legalism to realism, points to facts, mathematics to ‘life-matics,” Oyedepo said.
The chancellor noted that until one was transformed, he woul not be able to reform his environment, society or nation, adding that this was why the institution focused on equipping the students.
The Pro-Chancellor of the Institution, Bishop David Abioye, said that the University presented a set of life-changing core values which helped in training each student for a productive life.
Abioye admonished the students to embrace the values that would enable them to excel in their various endeavours.
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