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  • 36 bag first class as Crawford varsity holds 15th convocation ceremony

    36 bag first class as Crawford varsity holds 15th convocation ceremony

    Thirty-six graduates bagged first class degrees at the 15th convocation ceremony of faith-based Crawford University Igbesa, Ogun State.

    They were among over 300 students that convoked on Wednesday where eight bagged PhD, amongst others.

    The Vice-Chancellor of Anchor University, Prof. Samuel Oye Bandele, who was the guest speaker, spoke extensively on the need for a change in mentality about private schools paying high fees.

    He emphasised that private universities have better guidance and tutelage than the public institutions for students.

    Bandele also urged the Federal Government and other academic governing bodies to level the hierarchy between public and private universities stressing that there should be no differential treatment between both institutions.

    While congratulating the graduands, Prof. Bandele applauded the great efforts of TETFUND, NUC, JAMB, and other bodies for their job well-done in achieving an academic egalitarian society.

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    Miss Eniola Shalom Oluwagunna, who graduated from the College of Arts and Communication Studies with a CGPA of 4.91, emerged as the overall best graduating student for 2023.

    Oluwagunna got different cash prizes and other awards.

    She said: “I’m happy to be celebrated as the best graduating student, I feel elated and I take this as a challenge to push further and achieve greater things.

    “I want to use this opportunity to thank God, my parents and others who helped me through this academic journey.

    “My advice to my friends and other students out there, is that it’s possible to achieve what you set out to achieve, you only need to be determined and focused. God helping me, I will effect change in the Nigeria media.”

    The Proprietor and Chancellor of the university, Rev. (Dr.) Isaac O. Adigun urged all graduands to champion academic and moral greatness as they step out into the world.

    Adigun charged the graduands to continue the good works they have started and continue in their academic pursuits affecting the world positively in their various endeavours.

  • Crawford Chancellor preaches godly virtue

    The Chancellor, Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, Rev Emmanuel Adeniran has underscored the need for students to imbibe knowledge with godliness for success in life and national development.

    He gave the advice at the 10th convocation of the institution where Dominion Akinyemi beat 304 students to emerge the overall best graduand with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.96.

    The school also graduated its first set of part time studies.

    The 2017/2018 set was called Unicorn 10.

    Adeniran noted that a society with great human resources endowed with knowledge but without godliness would not develop well.

    “I have pondered so much what a great country Nigeria will be if we have graduates that combine functional knowledge with the godly or moral uprightness. Our country cries out for men and women of great moral integrity in every facet of life and sector of our economy.  You have been prepared for a good leadership at various levels.  Do not repeat bad history at individual, family and your career level with knowledge without godliness,” he said.

    He counselled that goodness and greatness take functional and sustainable source from God and godly principles of living, noting that ungodliness can be sweet in a short term but would always end sour.

    He said the self-inflicted and unending multifaceted negative effect in the Northeast of the country was a testament to religion without godliness or moral Integrity.

    Adeniran advised the students to be solution providers by expanding their knowledge frontiers and also strive for God’s grace and gifts to divinely maintain their identities as light to the world.

    Congratulating the graduates, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Rotimi Ajayi urged them to be great ambassadors of the school in all their dealings in life.

    He said the students had undergone rigorous training in character, analytical reasoning and independent skills of which they have proven worthy by their graduation.

    He added that the University would continue to improve on excellence in teaching and research targeted at producing graduates who will contribute to the nation’s growth.

  • Voter education brings INEC to Crawford

    Youth Mobilisation and Participation, Awareness Creation, Political Education, Leadership Assessment among others were the buzzwords as Alhaji Lamidi Amosa, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ogun State took the podium to address Crawford University students during the Personality Platform programme organised by the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the university last Thursday.

    The theme of the programme was: “Mobilising Nigerian Youths for Political Participation and Voting in 2019 Election through Sustained Awareness”.

    It provided an opportunity for the students, especially of the Social Sciences, to appreciate the difference between theory they were taught in class and the real practice of politics.

    Alhaji Amosa underscored the need for students as Nigerians, to participate fully in the electoral process and not just “sit on the fence” as the “unenlightened but politically educated” wrest the crucial machinery of government from their hands.

    To actively participate in politics, he said that youths need to build sufficient before they can be entrusted with the lever of governance and control.

  • ‘No fee hike at Crawford varsity’

    The management of Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, has refuted reports that it has hiked tuition fees.

    A statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Layi Olajumoke, noted that the university was not increasing fees at this time to make it affordable to students.

    “The management of the Crawford University strongly feels that the institution should maintain the current fees structure to grant more access for serious students and discerning parents who would want their wards to undergo academic training in a Christian university with a strong academic tradition, self-reliance, leadership and entrepreneurship training,” the statement said.

     

  • Crawford postpones exam

    The Harmattan Semester examinations of Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State have been postponed.

    The examinations, which were earlier slated for February 6, were postponed by two weeks. Now, they will hold between Monday,  February 20 and Saturday, March 4, 2017.

    The Senate of the university took ths decision. It resolved that the postponement be effected to adjust the university’s calendar to accommodate some urgent and important activities.

    According to the revised calendar, the Revision Classes for the examinations would begin on Monday, February 13 and end on Fbraury 17.

    The semester break would commence on March 6 and end on March 10.

    The university will begin the Rain Semester on March 13.

  • 457 take oath at Crawford convocation

    Crawford University Igbesa Ogun State has held its 12th matriculation on Friday last week.

    The event which commenced shortly before noon, had in attendance parents, guests, and university workers led by its vice chancellor Prof Isaac Rotimi Ajayi.

    Ajayi, in his address, said the event was had opened up countless opportunities for training, re-training as well as  the new School of Part-Time Studies, SPTS.

    Said Ajayi: “Our School of Part-time Studies is training and re-training strategy for a strong, virile, sustainable and balanced economy. It is the hub of life-long learning which in the present age has become a pre-requisite for remaining competitive in the labour market.”

    On the relevance of the PTS, Ajayi said it would help develop workers’ skill-sets and prepare them for new job opportunities, minimise or avert joblessness, as well as increase their productivity.

    Of the total of 457 students that took oath of matriculation,  the university’s College of Business and Social Sciences, (CBSS), presented 235, the College of Natural and Applied Sciences, (CONAS) presented 105, SPTC had 90, while the Postgraduates School presented 27 students.

     

  • Crawford produces 21 First Class graduates at 8th convocation

    Twenty-one first class graduates will lead 208 others at the eigth convocation of Crawford University Igbesa, Ogun State, on Wednesday next week, the university has announced.

    While eight of the first class holders are from the institution’s College of Business and Social Sciences (CBSS) 13 others are drawn from the College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CONAS).

    Similarly, 86 graduates had second class (Upper Division), 75 fell under the 2nd class (lower division), and 47 in other categories.

    Speaking at a briefing held at the school’s Mass Communication Hall on Tuesday, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Ajayi, boasted that the 229 potential graduates are certified worthy in character and learning by the authority.

    Ajayi said the convocation lecture titled: Restructuring and rebirth: Salvaging Nigeria’s lost century, will be delivered on convocation day by the former Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Prof Ayodeji Olukoju.

    He added that an alumni lecture which holds a day ahead of the convocation with the theme: The role of alumni in the development of a university, wiIl be delivered by Prof. Yemi Akinkuotu of the Lagos State University Faculty of Education.

    Other activities will include: kit exercise for staff and students; novelty football match, a thanksgiving service and the commissioning of projects by the Parents Forum and graduating students.

  • Crawford varsity mourns PRO

    Crawford varsity mourns PRO

    The Crawford University community, Igbesa, Ogun State was thrown into mourning last week following the death of the institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Abayomi Ojo, last Tuesday in an auto accident.

    His Toyota-branded car with registration number BDG- 614CU was crushed by a truck carrying sand at Atan in Ogun State.

    Ojo died on the spot while a passenger in the car with him sustained severe injuries.

    The Vice Chancellor of the university, Mr Samson Ayanlaja described Ojo as dutiful member of staff who was loved by all, including students.

    A wake-keep and other burial activities will take place today and tomorrow at the Apostolic Faith Church in the institution at 10am on both days.

  • Six hours sleep helped me succeed, says Crawford’s best

    For students popularly referred to as efikos (bookworm) who would rather deprive themselves of sleep in order to come atop in class, Omope Samuel Oluwatosin has a message for them- “Too much reading and less sleep doesn’t make a student succeed.”

    Oluwatosin who emerged the best graduating student of Crawford University, Igbesa Ogun State defended his position at the university’s sixth convocation held at the university’s main auditorium on Thursday last week. Oluwatosin graduated with 4.79 Cumulative Grade Point Average from the College of Business and Social Sciences, Department of Accounting

    ‘Six hours of sleep everyday helps one assimilate better’ Oluwatosin told the large audience comprising graduands, their parents, guests and workers of the university.

    He continued: “What some students know is that they must read and actually dig deep to understand what they read and must read from everywhere – newspapers, books, library, internet; but what they don’t understand is that in order for them to assimilate, they must have a minimum of six hours and a maximum of eight hours rest. If you are staying in bed more than eight hours or less than six hours, you are doing yourself a disservice.

    “If you stay in bed between six and eight hours, it refreshes your brain. During exams, I tell my friends that staying overnight to read isn’t the best because it is a waste of time. After the whole stress of the day and the accumulated fatigue in the brain, you will not rest but begin to read again at night, there is no way you will assimilate until you have a minimum of six hours rest.

    Oluwatosin’s target time is between 4am and 6am everyday.

    “I go to bed by 10pm everyday,” he stressed, “but by 4am I would have had a minimum amount of rest which is six hours of sleep. I do a little bit of reading from 4am to 6am, bath and go to class to read again until my lectures starts.

    “Most time I just read when I am chanced to read. After lectures, I go to the library, after library I go to the cafeteria to read, but most times when I get to my hostel at night I don’t engage in any reading. I simply chat with my friends and play because all work and no play make Jack a dull boy,” he said.

    However, Oluwatosin did not have a smooth sail to victory. He told reporters how his educationist father and civil servant mother struggled to send him to school, noting that he saw their toil as a mandate to succeed.

    “As a civil servant mum she didn’t have much and dad’s business as a proprietor also was gradually nose-diving during this period and school fees here is about 450,000. So I have actually seen my parents sell their vehicle just to raise funds. My dad would say all the work they did was for us and the best investment one can have is the one on one’s children,” Tosin noted.

    The 21 year-old Oluwatosin also relishes his appetite for social life.

    Oluwatosin got Prof Peter Akinsola Okebukola Science Foundation Prize for the Best Overall Graduating Student; Mrs Ngozi Osueke’s prize for the Best Behaved Graduating Male Student; Parents Forum prize for the Overall Best Graduating Student, and Messrs Adebo Ojo & Co. prize for the Graduating Student with the Best Overall Result in Accounting, among others.

  • Crawford varsity loses BoT member

    Crawford University, Igbesa in Ogun State has lost a member of its Board of Trustees (BoT), Rev. Hector Abimbola Elebute.

    The late Elebute, who until his death, was a founding father of the Apostolic Faith Nigeria. He would be remembered for his insistence that Crawford University  should take off amid opposing views by other members of the board 14 year ago.

    The university, which started in 1995, was seen as a distraction by many members of the church. However, as the most senior member of the church and the only surviving of the four founding fathers, the late Elebute stood his ground and advised his colleagues to encourage the university to take off.

    The university Vice-Chancellor, Prof Samson Demola Ayanlaja, said the memory of the deceased would linger in the church and the university.

    “Elebute’s encouraging words still continue to propel and motivate the operations of this progressive bourgeoning university,” he said.

    Ayanlaja added: “I write on behalf of the Crawford University to appreciate God in admiring and saluting the odyssey of life of a peculiar treasure and colossus of the Apostolic Faith Church.

    “Our inimitable, beloved, courageous papa, the legendary Rev Hector Abimbola Elebute was a great soldier of Christ, defender of the faith, a bulwark to the overseers, a repository of knowledge, norms, customs and principles of the Apostolic Faith, a great pillar and commander of ethos and ethics of the church.”

    He described the late Elebute as a peaceful man and mentor to students and staff of the university, admonishing others to follow in his footstep.

    “One day all of us will depart no matter how old we are, and the work of everybody will follow him whether it is the right thing or not. If it is the right thing we will go to a place of rest, but if not it will be a bad experience for the dead soul,” he advised.

    The cleric, according to Ayanlaja, was a wise man. “He saw that the building of the university as necessary and endorsed the it when many refused. Now, all our children are benefitting from the university,” he added.