Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, and the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, are among seven distinguished Nigerians that will be honoured with honorary doctoral degrees at the 8th and 9th Convocation of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, on Saturday.
KWASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Muhammed Akanbi, SAN, said the personalities would be conferred with the doctorate degree for their contributions to the development of the country.
While the first lady will be conferred with Doctor of Entrepreneurship, Gambari who was the first Chancellor of KWASU will bag Doctor of Letters.
Others include Mohammadu Indimi, Doctor of Technology, Abdulsamad Rabiu, Doctor of Business, Kamoru Yusuf, Doctor of Technology, Jolayemi Omotowa, Doctor of Science, and Engr. Bamidele Adewumi, the Chancellor of the institution will be also be conferred with Doctor of Technology.
The Vice-Chancellor said a total number of 6,620 first degree students would graduate at the convocation ceremonies that cover two sessions of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.
He said 6,620, 3,864 belong to the 2019/2020 session and that the remaining 2,756 are of the 2020/2021 session.
Akanbi also said that there were 321 graduating higher degree students in 20219/2020 and 96 in 2020/2021.
He said a total of 98 students from the two sessions graduated with First Class Honours.
