No fewer than 26 students of Sir Kashim Ibrahim University, Maiduguri, Borno State, have graduated with first class honours out of a total of 2,294 graduands from the institution.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Babagana Gutti, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists ahead of the institution’s maiden combined convocation ceremony scheduled for Saturday, January 3, 2026.
Professor Gutti said the convocation would cover three sets of graduands from the 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 academic sessions.
According to him, the first set for the 2022/2023 academic session produced 523 graduates, five of whom earned first class degrees. In the 2023/2024 academic session, the university graduated 489 students, with 10 emerging with first class honours across four faculties.
“For the third set, 2024/2025 academic session, the university is graduating 1,282 students, out of which 13 students graduated with first class across the four faculties,” the Vice-Chancellor said.
Gutti noted that the convocation ceremony would mark nine years of academic activities and celebrate the institution’s contributions to the development of future leaders, the host community and the nation at large.
He also announced that a pre-convocation lecture would be delivered on Friday, January 2, 2026, by Professor Michael O. Faborode, former Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The lecture is titled “Insecurity and Environmental Fragility in the Lake Chad Basin Areas: Education, Health and Sustainable Agriculture Tripartite to the Rescue.”
The Vice-Chancellor added that the convocation would feature the conferment of degrees and presentation of prizes, and would be preceded by the investiture of a new Chancellor.
“I wish to announce that the Visitor to the university, His Excellency, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, the Executive Governor of Borno State, has approved the appointment of a new Chancellor for the institution,” Gutti said.
He disclosed that the new Chancellor is His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II), CFR, the Ooni of Ife, noting that his investiture would take place in line with academic tradition before the conferment of degrees.
