OTA/ Harvest of First Class Graduates

When David Oyedepo, Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Tabernacle, aka Winners Chapel founded Covenant University, located in Ota, Ogun State, he had one vision: To raise a new generation of leaders.

 

Bishop Oyedepo equipped the institution with a well stocked library, state-of-the-art laboratories, and well networked computer system with 24 hours internet facilities and services in a bid to achieve his vision for the institution. On 19 June, 2009, the institution shocked many when it graduated the single highest number of First Class Graduates by any Nigerian university during its fourth convocation ceremony. That day, the institution churned out 1,124 Eagles as the institution’s graduates are referred to. A breakdown of the figure showed that 81 graduated with First Class Honours, 567 and 435 got Second Class Upper and Second Class Lower respectively, while the remaining 41 graduated with a pass from three colleges that make up the institution.

Of the 81 that graduated with First Class Eagles, the Colleges of Business and Social Sciences had 30, while the Colleges of Human Development and Science and Technology produced four and 47 Eagles respectively. Speaking at the ceremony, Bishop Oyedepo, Chancellor of the school, charged the Eagles to move the unmovable, think the unthinkable and to dare the undarable as they move into the larger society. In furtherance of its commitment to better equip students of the institution, the management of the school has acquired and installed a new set of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment for the university. A source at the institution said the equipment would help boost research work of students and lecturers alike.

It would be recalled that the institution which was founded in 2002 graduated 50 First Class Graduates at its inaugural convocation ceremony in 2006. Many think graduating 81 First Class graduates makes attaining that milestone look cheap, but the authorities of the school can not be bothered! But then this is a university not new to controversy. In 2007, the institution was in the news when it ordered all its graduating students of the institution to undergo compulsory HIV and pregnancy test. It took the intervention of Ministry of Education and Human Rights Activists for the institution to drop the request.

 

 

-Report By Blessing Ogunli.

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