LASU graduates 20,604 students, awards 10m prize

By Imisioluwa Afunmiso

Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, on Tuesday held its 29th and 30th combined convocation ceremonies, graduating a total of 20,604 students from the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions.

The event, which formed part of a week-long convocation programme, brought together graduands from diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate programmes.

Of the total graduating class, 494 students earned First Class honours across the two academic sessions, with 262 recorded in the 2024/2025 session and 232 in the 2025/2026 session.

For the 2025/2026 academic session alone, 8,653 students graduated with first degrees. Among them, 232 obtained First Class honours, 3,545 earned Second Class Upper Division, 4,157 finished with Second Class Lower Division, 678 received Third Class, and 31 graduated with Pass degrees.

The overall best graduating student for the 2025/2026 session, Samuel Oluolamide of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, finished with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.97 on a 5.00 scale.

Oluolamide was presented with a N10 million cash prize under the Sunbeth Excellence Partnership Programme in recognition of his academic achievement.

The combined convocation was necessitated by adjustments to the university’s academic calendar and aimed at clearing the backlog of graduands from both academic years.

The university also used the occasion to honour notable individuals for their contributions to national development, scholarship, public service, and humanity, with industrialist Aliko Dangote among those slated to receive honorary doctorate degrees.

The 2026 convocation is particularly historic for the university’s Epe Campus, where part of the ceremony took place for the first time since the satellite campus was established nearly three decades ago.