14 Students Bag 1st Class Degree At Bell University

[Shola Sholaz]

The Bell University of Technology, Ota in Ogun State on Saturday said 14 students had bagged first class degrees at its 2012/13 convocation.
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The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebayo Adeyemi, made this known at the 5th convocation and the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees, and presentation of prizes in Ota.
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It was gathered that 208 graduating students participated in the ceremony.
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They comprised 14 students bagging first class honours, 64 being in second upper division, 83 second class lower division, 43 in third class, and four receiving ordinary pass.
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Adeyemi urged all the graduating students to have belief in their abilities that they could make it in life in spite of the existing situation in the country.
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He emphasised the need for them to be patriotic in their bid to move the nation forward.
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"I also wish to inform you all that the postgraduate degree programmes (PGD) and postgraduate diploma programmes had been approved by National Universities Commission.
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" The approval of these courses will give room for the institution to carry out numerous researches that will lead to development of both human capital and the nation," he said.
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Adeyemi said that the approved PGD courses included M.Sc in biochemistry, industrial chemistry, computer science, information science.
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He said the diploma courses were to be offered in microbiology and applied physics.