The University of Ilorin recently matriculated 12,650 students for its 2014/2015 academic session.
It was learnt that 80 of the matriculates are foreign students.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof AbdulGaniyu Ambali while speaking at the ceremony told the matriculating students to be grateful to God.
In his words, “…..the first important thing is that you should be grateful, grateful to God who makes everything possible; grateful to your parents and guardians who have seen you to this stage.

“I know some of you would wonder why you should be grateful to the university since you are qualified and your effort brought you here. The truth is that the university is creating more space for those who are qualified.

“For example, only 8,591 students could be admitted last academic session but we have increased the space so that additional thousands were added above the number we admitted last session. As the saying goes, many are called but few are chosen.”