168 bag first class as UNN graduates 12,895 students 

One 100 and sixty-eight students person bagged First Class Honours astatine the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, arsenic the instauration holds its 55th Convocation Ceremony. 

The fig is portion of the 12,895 students participating successful the convocation arsenic announced by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Simon Ortuanya.

Ortuanya disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu during a property briefing astatine the university’s Enugu Campus, themed “The Renaissance of Mind and the Rebuilding of the Lion’s Den.”

Providing a breakdown of the graduating students, Ortuanya said 10,641 would person archetypal degrees and diplomas, including 168 First Class graduates.

He added that 2,944 postgraduate students would beryllium awarded higher degrees, comprising 1,390 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, 1,340 Master’s degrees and 214 Postgraduate Diplomas.

Ortuanya besides disclosed that the university’s MBBS admittance quota roseate from 180 to 400 students pursuing accreditation by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, portion the Dentistry quota roseate from 15 to 60 students.

He added that the National Universities Commission (NUC) approved the unbundling of the Department of Mass Communication into 5 specialised grade programmes, whi...