Forty-three students in the Faculty of Technology, University of Ibadan, have graduated with first-class honours in various technology fields, with 112 making second class honours, upper-division.

The Dean Faculty of Technology, Olaosebikan Fakolujo, disclosed this at an induction ceremony for 299 students of the 2018/2019 session as graduate members of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).

According to him, the induction ought to have taken place in 2020 but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ASUU strike and other national and global crises

‘I am highly excited to inform this gathering that 43 of them, which constitute 14.7 per cent, graduated with First-Class Honours,’ the dean said.

‘Two are from the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, one is from the Department of Civil Engineering, 18 are from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 are from the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, nine are from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and three are from the Department of Petroleum Engineering.