379 bag First Class as UNILAG graduates 17,464 students at convocation

NIMASA tasks varsity on plan to reposition blue economy via research

No fewer than 17,464 graduating students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) will bow out as the institution produces 379 First Class graduates at its 54th convocation.

Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, who disclosed this during a pre-convocation media briefing on the activities lined up for the ceremony, said the convocation would hold from Monday, January 15 to Friday, January 19, 2024.

She added that the convocation lecture, titled, “Decolonising African Higher Education for Transformational Development,” would be delivered by a distinguished professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, Prof. Toyin Falola while a former Pro-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi, would be the chairman of the event.

MEANWHILE, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has urged the institution to develop and implement a five-year action plan to make the Institute of Maritime Studies (IMS) in the university the epicentre of research for the repositioning of the Blue Economy as the leading contributory sector of the nation’s economy.

Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, who stated this, yesterday, during a courtesy visit by the management team from the UNILAG led by the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. FolasadeOgunsola, in Lagos, said the academia had a major role to play in the development of the Blue Economy in the country.