Former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola will on Thursday, December 11, 2025, deliver the ‘Convocation Lecture’ at the Kwara State University, Malete as part of the activities marking the institution’s 13th convocation ceremony.
The ‘Convocation Lecture’ is titled ‘Universities in the Age of Quantum Thinking: Redefining Quality, Relevance and Innovation through Emerging Technologies’.
Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh disclosed this during the press conference he presided over in Malete on Tuesday which was attended by journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com.
He has also announced the ‘full schedule’ for the 13th convocation ceremony.
‘This press briefing is the first official event for the 13th Convocation Ceremony. As it is our tradition, there will be exhibition of products and other innovations of the university at the lobby of this venue immediately after this press briefing which I will declare open.
On Wednesday, the University Library will showcase some important activities after which a football match between the Teaching and Non-teaching staff of the University will take place. On Thursday, December 11 at 11 am, the Convocation Lecture will take place. Former Executive Secretary of the NUC, Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola OFR will deliver the convocation lecture titled ‘Universities in the Age of Quantum Thinking: Redefining Quality, Relevance and Innovation through Emerging Technologies’.
At 3 pm on the same day, KWASU’s Department of Performing Arts and Film Studies will put up the Convocation Play titled ‘Lisabi Agbongboakala’ by E.O. Owolabi. The grand finale will hold on Saturday, December 13, 2025, when the university convenes for the Convocation of the Award of First and Postgraduate Degrees and Prizes’ the VC submitted.
A total of 7,618 students will be graduating from the university and 82 among them will be graduating with first class honours.
1,986 are of the 2nd Class Upper category, 4,195, 2nd Class Lower while 1,355 students will be graduating with 3rd class honours.
Also, the total number of Higher Degrees to be awarded at the 13th convocation ceremony of the university is 501, out of this figure, 426 are of master’s degree category while 75 PhD students would also be graduating from the university.
Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh also, once again, described as untrue insinuations that students at the Ilesha–Baruba campus were made to leave for Malete as a result of security fears.
He clarified and submitted that the students in question are currently in Malete to participate in the ongoing 13th convocation ceremony.
KWASU is a multi-campus university and the Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences is located in Ilesha-Baruba, Baruten local government.
The VC noted that students at the Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Sciences are not only participating in the convocation ceremony but also displaying their products while adding that the arrangements made for their transportation from Ilesha-Baruba to Malete was in response to the request made by the representatives of the students to ease things for them.
The students, who are billeted at the recently inaugurated 600-bed space hostel in Malete, will according to him return to Ilesha-Baruba after the end of the mid-semester break .
‘On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, the university issued a press statement to dispel speculations in respect of the movement of students at the KWASU Ilesha-Baruba campus to the main campus in Malete. This move is temporary. It is to ensure that both staff and students of the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences participate in the week-long Convocation programme. Also, the University will proceed on mid-semester break after the Convocation with students expected to observe the break’ he said.
While noting that the institution has maintained ‘our success rate’ in accreditation status in respect of the 81 undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the university, the VC added that 56 people who studied law at the university have been formally admitted to the legal profession as qualified lawyers.
‘It is with pleasure that I say that KWASU’s 4th-year medical students have resumed at the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital. Also, 56 law graduates of the University were called to the Bar this year. These are the first and second sets of law graduates of KWASU. These developments are milestones we have long waited for as KWASU continues to train and produce critical work force for the different sectors’ he said.
44 students at the institution, he noted, have received N100,000 research grants while those in the engineering department have built a prototype electric vehicle from the scratch adding that ‘this is a step beyond converting existing vehicles; every component was assembled by our engineers’.
Professor Shaykh-Luqman Alade Jimoh also disclosed that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved 1 billion Naira Special Intervention fund that will take the Library Annex project to completion while all 11 faculties and other stations at the institution have been equipped with ultramodern, fully functional smart classrooms to boost teaching across time and space-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
