BINGHAM University, Karu, Nasarawa State, on Saturday graduated no fewer than 2,217 students with 57 hitting first class degrees.
Newsextra24, reports that at the institution’s 5th Convocation ceremony that comprised of the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 graduating sessions, 519 students got Second Class Upper Degrees.
Newsextra24 also reports that 576 students got Second Class Lower Degrees, while 179 and nine others got Third Class and Pass degrees respectively.
Further details showed that 262 bagged MBBS, while postgraduate programmes produced 615 graduands comprising 41 Doctors of Philosophy (PhD), 156 Academic Masters, 298 Professional Masters, while 121 got Postgraduate Diplomas.
In his goodwill message, the Executive Secretary, National University Commission (NUC), represented by Mr John Mairafi, Director in the Executive Secretary’s office, commended the institution’s rapid growth.
He applauded the institution’s outstanding records of many milestones, especially its capacity to produce 9,000 graduands and 80 programmes.
He also recognised the pivotal role the university had played over the years with most of its programmes.
He further explained that the commission had implemented curriculum standards and lurched programmes to enable more foreign collaboration, especially with Bingham University.
The Pro-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Haruna Andrew, commended the vice chancellor for building on his predecessors’ visions and work.
He encouraged the graduands to not just see themselves as graduates in caps and gowns, but the future leaders of the society.
“You not only acquired knowledge and good character in Bingham, but have developed the necessary skills to navigate intricacies of the world beyond the walls of the university,” he said.
The Chancellor, the Esu Karu, Mr Luka Panya-Baba, congratulated the institution and graduands and wished them more excellence.
Appreciating the institution, the emeritus professor commended the graduands for coming thus far in their achievements.
He encouraged the governing council of the school, Vice chancellor, colleagues in the academia and graduands, to keep the good works and be sure of greater heights.
Graduands and parents, who spoke with NAN, could not hide their joy as they returned the glory to God and the institution.
One of the graduands, Miss Sunshine Oche, from Computer Science department, said she was thankful to God for the four years spent in the institution.
Another graduand, Ezekiel Tochukwu, said he was happy to be among the graduating students, adding that spending four years in university was very challenging.
He explained that the institution had impacted so much knowledge and morals into him and prayed it guides him in his future endeavours.
A parent, Mrs Ijeoma Anyaji, mother to one of the graduands, explained that she could not express the inner joy she was filling because she had, for years, anticipated the graduating day.
According to her, training up a child to graduate level is not an easy task either economically, financially and morally.
She advised parents to always pray for their children/wards and also ask for divine wisdom in the upbringing of children.
“That is the only way to have excellent children,” she said.
