20 Achievers University students bag first class honours

20 graduating students of Achievers
Private University in Owo local
government area of Ondo State have
bagged First Class Honours Degrees.
The First Class graduates were of the
2011/2012 academic session.
At its second convocation ceremony
held yesterday in Owo, the Vice-
Chancellor, Prof. Adebayo Odebiyi
said the results of the students have
been quite encouraging.
Odebiyi noted that the 2011/2012
graduates of the institution have
already completed their National
Youth Service Corps [NYSC]
programmes from the various states
they were posted to, adding that
those in the 2012/2013 are still
undergoing the mandatory national
programme.
His words, “Today, we are graduating
two sets of students-2011/2012 and
2012/2013 sets, and their results
have been encouraging. For the
2011/2012 session, 76 students,
graduated from the Department of
Accounting, Business Administration
and Economics and of this number,
five are in the First Class, 18 in
Second Class Upper Division and 10 in
Third Class Honours.
“In the College of Natural and
Applied Sciences, 42 graduated from
the Departments of Medical
Laboratory Science, Biochemistry,
Computer and Information Systems,
Microbiology and Industrial
Chemistry with one student in First
Class, 12 in Second Class Upper
division, 21 in Second Class Lower and
eight in Third Class.
“For the 2012/2013 session, 393
students are graduating from the
college of Social and Management
Sciences with 12 in First Class, 199 in
Second Class Upper Division, 155 in
Second Class Lower Division and 27 in
Third Class. In the college of Natural
and Applied Sciences, 100 students
are graduating with two in First
Class, 49 in Second Class Upper
Division, 38 in Second Class Lower
Division and 11 in Third Class”.