A Nigerian student, Muhammad Baba, has emerged overall winner out of the 600 conference submissions at the United Nations International Students Conference on Environment and Sustainability, at Shanghai, China.
The Vice Chancellor, Federal University Dutse (FUD), Prof. Fatima Batul Mukhtar, disclosed this, on Monday, at the 4th Convocation ceremony of the university held, in Dutse.
Prof. Fatima Batul, in her address to the gathering, stated that the student who emerged winner to beat other 95 participating countries was a First Class graduate from the department of environmental management and toxicology from FUD.
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The Vice Chancellor, who congratulated the country and the university for being celebrated globally, assured that the FUD will give employment to the deserving student as a mark of appreciation to the effort.
She noted that, “Saddling our students with worthless cardboard papers in the name of certificates has never been the objective of Federal University Dutse,” she stated.
She, however, pointed that the university has signed MoU’s with a number of Universities and scholarly centres such as the university of north Dakota, USA, Morgan University, International Islamic University of Kelantan and many others.
She declared that the university has graduated no fewer than 839 students who have completed their Degree and Post graduate programmes for the 2017/2018 session.
The Vice Chancellor further disclosed that out of the number mentioned 558 students will graduate with degrees in different disciplines and 14 have made First Class divisions, 222 obtained second class upper also 222 made second Class Lower while 70 got Third Class.
Fatima Batul explained that for the first time since the creation of the university in 2011 it is graduating 281 Post Graduate students, describing the development as a thing of pride and first from among its nine peers.