●214 first class; 7,216 2nd class upper class
The University of Uyo (Uniuyo) will from this Thursday through Saturday, conduct her combined 31st and 32nd convocation ceremony for a total of 22,961 graduands covering the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 academic sessions.
The ceremony, billed for the Main Campus of the university, will also feature the conferment of honorary degrees on four distinguished Nigerians.
Briefing newsmen in Uyo, Monday, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Christopher Ekong, said that the first degree class consists of 9,106 graduands from the 2023/2024 session and 10,111 from the 2024/2025 session.
For the postgraduate level, Prof. Ekong said that a total of 714 graduands will be conferred with doctorate degrees; 1,303 with master’s, and 665 with postgraduate diplomas, making a total of 2,682.
The Vice Chancellor added that for the undergraduate level, 19,217 graduands will receive bachelor’s degrees; 144 diplomas, and 161, certificates.
A further breakdown of the figure indicates that 214 graduands passed at the first class level; 7,216 at the second class (Upper), 10,468 Second Class (Lower) levels; 917 at the third class, while 402 made it at the pass level.
For the two sessions, he said, 19,217 will graduate with bachelor’s degrees; 814 with undergraduate diplomas; 248 with certificates; and 2,682 with postgraduates degrees.
Ekong also mentioned that four Nigerians will be honoured during the ceremony. They are, the governor of Taraba State, Agbu Kefas; the chairman of Tantita Security Services, High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo; the managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Samuel Ogbuku; and the chairman of Ubotex Nigeria Limited, Elder Ubong Obot.
The Vice Chancellor, who also used the occasion to list his achievements since assumption of office on Tuesday, 16th June, 2026, pledged that the convocation, which is his first as Vice Chancellor, will also be the last combined ceremony during his administration.
This, he said, would be achieved through prompt release of results which will also facilitate the mobilization of students for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.
While disclosing the institution’s readiness to employ her first class graduates, he restated that transcripts would be issued to students within 72 hours, and that so far, the backlog of applications for transcripts have been cleared, manifesting in the completion of the processing of 1,810 transcripts.
