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41st Convocation: ABU to honour Aliko Dangote, Hassan Sunmonu

The authorities of  the Ahmadu  Bello University (ABU), Zaria,  will confer a Honorary Doctorate Degree on Alhaji Aliko Dangote during its 41st convocation  slated for Saturday, April 27.

TBI Africa.com said this was contained in a press statement signed by the Registrar of the institution, Abdullahi Ahmed-Kundila, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna State,  on Monday.

He  said: ”The university will confer a Doctor of Letters on billionaire business mogul and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, GCON.

“Also,  the university will confer a Doctor of Science on a former  President of the  Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Hassan  Sunmonu, OON.

”The two honorary degree recipients will be honoured for their immense contributions to the economic development of Nigeria and humanity in general,” the registrar said.

He added that  all was set for the 41st convocation  of ABU for the  conferment of first degrees, postgraduate diplomas, higher degrees and honorary degrees.

He said, ”There are 15,289 graduands for the convocation. The number is made up of 10,803 first degrees and 4,486 postgraduate degrees.

”The postgraduates comprise 204 PhDs, 12 M.Phil, 3,092 Masters Programmes, 38 Masters in Business Administration (MBA) by Distance Learning and 1,020 Postgraduate Diplomas,” he said.

The registrar gave the breakdown  of  potential first degreee recipients as follows: first class (81) , second class upper ( 2,043) , second class lower (6,885), third class (1,502), pass degrees (114 )and unclassified degrees (178).

He also  said that 15 best graduating students from  the 2017/2018 academic session from  across all the  faculties of the university  would receive different prizes at the event.

He said that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the visitor to the university,  would  be the Special Guest of Honour at the event.

He added that Gov. Nasiru el-Rufai of Kaduna State would be the Chief Host

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