We’ll comply fully with Yoruba language requirement for admission-LASU VC

The Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University, Ojo, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, has said that the university will comply with every law by the state government, including the one on Yoruba language requirement for admission.
According to him, compliance with the law would start with this year’s admission, which would commence immediately the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board gave the go-ahead.
The LASU VC disclosed this in a chat with our correspondent shortly after a press conference to announce the commencement of the activities for the 22nd convocation ceremony of the university.
Fagbohun added that the state government’s aim was to preserve and promote the use of Yoruba language and for connected purposes, necessitating the need for compliance.
On the convocation ceremony, he said that the activities will commence with a cup competition for staff on May 17, 2018 and a coconut breaking festival on Monday, May 21, 2018 at 9am.
Other activities include a convocation lecture entitled: “Role of Tertiary Education in Promoting Social Cohesion and Peace: Opportunities and Challenges for Nigeria,” which will be delivered by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission.
The award of first degrees and diplomas in all faculties will hold on Wednesday, May 23rd while the award of higher degrees will hold on Thursday 24th at 10am at the University Auditorium Complex.
Reeling out the statistics of the graduating students, Fagbohun said a total of 26,637 students would be graduating, out of which 26 would graduate with first class at the ceremony.
On why the number of graduating students had gone up, the VC said this was because the last batch of the students from the external system, which was shut down, made the bulk of the graduating students.
He also attributed the low number of students graduating with first class to the fact that the university based its criteria on a solid assessment, which only good and hardworking students
could beat.
He said, “Our assessment process is very solid. We also do not base our assessment on a particular number, which must be met by the university.
“We use our basic assessment as it comes and what we arrived at is this.”
Fagbohun also disclosed that the 2018 convocation would be unique because the university had succeeded in improving the skills of the students by adequately equipping them with entrepreneurial skills so that they could become employers and not job seekers.