494 Students Graduate with First-Class Honours as LASU Set to Graduate Over 20,000

A total of 494 students of Lagos State University (LASU) have graduated with First-Class honours as the institution prepares to confer degrees and other qualifications on 20,604 graduands at its 29th and 30th combined convocation ceremonies.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, disclosed this on Wednesday during a press conference ahead of the ceremonies for the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions.

According to the Vice-Chancellor, 262 students earned First-Class honours in the 2024/2025 session, while another 232 achieved the feat in 2025/2026.

For the 2024/2025 session, 7,621 students graduated from first-degree programmes. The figure included 3,155 Second-Class Upper, 3,439 Second-Class Lower, 622 Third-Class and 37 pass graduates, while 106 students in the MBBS and BDS programmes received unclassified degrees.

In the 2025/2026 session, 8,653 students graduated from first-degree programmes, comprising 3,545 Second-Class Upper, 4,157 Second-Class Lower, 678 Third-Class and 31 pass graduates.

The university will also graduate 3,383 postgraduate students from the two academic sessions. They include 618 Postgraduate Diploma graduates, 1,508 academic Master’s graduates, 900 professional Master’s graduates, 238 PhD graduates and 119 professional doctoral graduates.

Ayilara Lawal Olawale of the Department of Project Management emerged as the overall best graduating student for 2024/2025 with a CGPA of 4.96 and First-Class honours.

For 2025/2026, Adebanjo Samuel Oluolamide of the Department of Aerospace Engineering emerged as the best graduating student, recording a CGPA of 4.97 and First-Class honours.

The combined convocation will begin with pre-convocation activities, while degrees in Engineering and Agricultural Sciences will be conferred on August 17 at the Olatunji Bello Auditorium, Epe Campus. Graduands from other faculties will receive their degrees on August 18 at the Buba Marwa Auditorium, Ojo.

Professional and academic doctoral degrees, as well as honorary doctorate degrees, will be conferred on August 19.

Among those approved for honorary doctorate degrees are Akin Kekere-Ekun, Harriet-Ann Omobola (Bola) Adesola and Aliko Dangote.

The university will also elevate Prof. Rafiu Olaoluwa Okuneye and Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello to the rank of Distinguished Professor.

Olatunji-Bello said LASU had recorded several achievements, including the approval of 17 new academic programmes by the National Universities Commission.

She added that the university received more than 84,000 first-choice applications in the 2026 UTME, making it the most subscribed university in Nigeria for the second consecutive year.

LASU also secured approval for a N3 billion TETFund Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Cyber Sciences, while construction has commenced on a 1,500-bed student hostel estimated at N4 billion.

The Vice-Chancellor described the combined convocation as historic, noting that it would be her final convocation ceremony as the head of the university.

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