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  • Covenant varsity alumni announces graduating students award recipients

    Covenant varsity alumni announces graduating students award recipients

    The Covenant University Alumni Association (CUALA) has offered cash awards worth N2.6 million  to exceptional graduating students of Covenant University in 20 categories.

    The categories featured academic and non-academic awards, including best graduating students across several courses  and leadership, entrepreneurship, community service, social action and more.

    Some of the recipients include Teniola Morinsola Faith and Ododo Moses Elijah, who won a total of N1,150,000 and N300,000.

    Teniola Morinsola Faith won three academic awards as the Best Graduating Student (Overall) in Accounting, Best Graduating Student in Accounting (Female) & Best Graduating Student in the College of Management & Social Sciences.  Ododo Moses Elijah, who won an academic award as the Best Graduating Student (Male) in Accounting and two non-academic awards for leadership and social action/development, expressed how thrilled he was to join the alumni association and said he was grateful to the award sponsors and for the motivation to do more.

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    Speaking about the awards, the President of CUALA Kemi Onabanjo-Joseph, said: “The annual CUALA Alumni awards are an opportunity to give back to our alma mater and reward academic and non-academic excellence in the graduating class. It is also a platform to inspire current students to strive to be better. We are so delighted to have had the highest volume and value of awards so far, and look forward to doubling those numbers next year.

    Onabanjo-Joseph also expressed gratitude to members of the alumni association for their generous support and for sponsoring the awards. She called on organisations who would be interested in offering non-cash rewards such as job/internship opportunities, business grants and more to the graduating students.

    The Student Council Chairman, Victor Egbadon, thanked the alumni association on behalf of the 18th graduating set of the university for the awards and expressed how pleased he was to see the alumni’s commitment to the graduating class.

  • Covenant varsity ranks high in world’s research

    Covenant varsity ranks high in world’s research

    •Tops Nigeria’s most employable graduates list

    Covenant University, Ota,Ogun State has been  ranked Number One globally in some research endeavours and rated among the top 10 in others, based on the latest computations by Elsevier SciVal.

    Elsevier SciVal is the world acclaimed ready-to-use solution that offers easy access to the research performance of 8,500 research institutions and 220 countries.

    Stutern, a Lagos-based online platform that carries out studies on employment in Nigeria and Nigerian universities, has also ranked Covenant University Number One in the list of Nigerian universities (both private and public) with the Most Employable Graduates.

    News of the university ranking in research was broken by the Vice Chancellor, Professor A.A. A. Atayero, who said that the institution was rated World Number One  in research endeavours such as Wind Power, Wind and Turbine and Corrosion, Corrosion Inhibitors, Carbon Steel and  World Number Two in Trade, Remittance, Effect) and (Housing; Residential Satisfaction, Satisfaction.

    The Vice-Chancellor stated that Covenant University was able to identify its areas of Distinctive Competencies and areas of Emerging Competencies courtesy of the SciVal software, which focus on competencies of universities in research endeavours.

    Over 13 million publications for the period 2011-2015 were extracted from the Scopus database, to form 168,092 clusters. SciVal subsequently identified 53 publication clusters in which Covenant University has a significant presence. The 53 publication clusters were grouped into 16 Competencies for Covenant University.

    The Chancellor of the institution, Dr. David O. Oyedepo dedicated the achievement to God.

    He said: “this is too much for our age as a University.

    “Celebration of Vision 10:2022 has already started with the results in the ranking. We are closer than ever imagined to the Vision.”

    In the second ranking, Stutern, said that Covenant University, with 90% employability rate, emerged first among institutions that have more employed graduates according to the employment status of their graduates.

  • Covenant varsity begins forum on e-governance

    Covenant varsity begins forum on e-governance

    The Third Covenant University Conference on E-governance will begin tomorrow at African Leadership Development Centre in the institution, Canaan Land, Ota, Ogun State.

    The theme of the conference is “Information and Communication Technologies for Governance in Nigeria: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities.”

    Minister of Communications Adebayo Shittu is the special guest of honour. The keynote speakers are: Sir Demola Aladekomo, Chairman, SmartCity Resorts Plc; Prof. Kelechi  Kalu, vice provost of international affairs and professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside, among others.

    The conference is designed to provide a platform for academics, policymakers, industry practitioners and civil society actors to address the general theme of the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in administrative and organisational practices in Nigeria.

    The conference facilitator, Professor Patience Akpan-Obong of the Arizona State University, USA, said the conference will provide academics, especially junior faculty members and graduate students with a forum to present the results of their research and receive valuable feedback from senior colleagues at the conference.

    According to her, policymakers and industry practitioners will also gain deeper understanding of the factors facilitating or hindering greater integration of ICTs in governance from presentations of research results.

     

  • PRESSID: Covenant Varsity’s first class graduates top again

    PRESSID: Covenant Varsity’s first class graduates top again

    For the second time, first class graduates of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, led the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID) with 19 of its graduates winning the scholarship among 200 candidates from various universities in the land.

    The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie, spoke on the feat, contained in the commission’s memorandum of January 13.

    The memorandum quoted Prof Okojie as commenting on the outcome of the aptitude test for first class graduates of Nigerian universities for sponsorship to 25 top universities in the world, under the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID).

    The scheme, in its second phase, showed that Covenant University emerged the overall best with 19 of the 200 graduates who would benefit from the scheme this year.

    The NUC chief noted that the feat, which Covenant University also achieved in the maiden edition of the scheme, meant it was moving on the fast lane in the production of quality graduates in the Nigerian University System (NUS).

    He attributed the achievement to Covenant University’s programmes being target-driven and the extensive use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in its teaching and learning processes.

    Prof Okojie urged the Federal Government to consider giving corresponding conditions and expectations to derive from the universities any time funds were released to them, as done in other climes.

    Covenant University’s first class graduates producing 10 of the 101 candidates who were selected in the final aptitude test for PRESSID.

    Responding to the development, the vice chancellor Prof Charles Ayo said the feat was a validation of the university’s efforts at producing brilliant graduates for the global community.

    He restated the university’s confidence in the quality of its first class graduates, saying they were worthy of their pedigree.

    Prof Ayo thanked God for always confirming His vision with infallible proofs of the institution’s academic strength.

    He was optimism that Covenant University would soon be ranked among the top 10 in the world, in fulfilment of the prophesy that has gone before it.

  • ‘Covenant Varsity ex-VC not suspended’

    The management of the Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State, yesterday denied an online report that its former Vice-Chancellor, Prof Aize Obayan, has been suspended for alleged examination fraud.

    The story, allegedly published by saharareporters.com, said Obayan was “suspended from her current position as Director of the Education Commission of the Winners’ Chapel for altering examination results for several students in the Department of Mass Communication.”

    But the university, in a statement, said the story was a mere conjecture designed to malign the school’s good name and others mentioned in it.

    It said Prof Obayan’s excellent performance as Vice-Chancellor for seven years led to her appointment as Education Secretary to oversee all educational institutions, under the Living Faith Commission Worldwide, for a year.

    The university said the purported altering of examination results in its Mass Communication and Chemistry departments is also untrue.

    Both departments, CU said, are blessed with erudite scholars of international repute, who can never be manipulated.

    The university added that it appoints credible external examiners from reputable institutions within and outside the country to vet its examinations scripts.

    The school said while it is true that Prof Obayan’s daughter graduated from the Mass Communication Department, she earned her grades through hard work. It stressed that her academic records are there for verification.

    CU also said it is not true that its former Registrar, Pastor Daniel Rotimi, has married a former student of the university as a second wife.

    “This is rather mischief at its worst. Pastor Daniel is a pastor in the Living Faith Church and believes and abides by the Church’s doctrine of one man one wife,” the university said.

    CU stressed that it has zero tolerance for examination malpractices.

    “As a Christian Mission University, our mandate and core values negate such practice as we drive a zero tolerance policy for examination malpractice or fraud in whatever guise.

    “It is sad that the University was never contacted for her side of the story before these malicious allegations were published by a reporter from Saharareporters.com.

    “Journalism is a noble profession. The pen is mightier than the sword, it should, therefore, be used with caution and responsibility.

    “The university, therefore, enjoins those behind the report to desist from this kind of mischief-making.

    “We wish to restate our commitment to our core values of spirituality, integrity and responsibility in our match to becoming one of the top 10 world-class universities in 10 years.

    “We appreciate our well-wishers and stakeholders who have been calling to ascertain the truth for their concern and support.

    “We assure them that all is well at Covenant University,” the statement added.