The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL) has matriculated 7, 860 students for the 2022/ 2023 academic session while 65 best performing students in the institution were offered scholarship award.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Abu Kasim Adamu, stated this on Wednesday at the matriculation ceremony held at Lapai.
He explained that the matriculation was for two sets of students including those admitted for 2021/2022 academic session and those for 2022/2023 academic session.
According to him, over 20,000 applicants chose IBBUL as their first choice out of which 7,192 were admitted for regular degree programmes, 612 for part time degree and 156 for long vocation training programmes.
He said, “We have decided to recognize our best performing students with scholarship awards as an encouragement towards academic excellence in the university. It is our hope that as new students, you will strive hard to attain excellence in your academic studies.”
According to the list rolled out by the institution’s management, 65 students benefited from the scholarship award and they are entitled to undisclosed amount of cash.
The vice-chancellor advised the matriculating students to shun cultism, drug abuse, sexual harassment and examination malpractices, adding that “we have zero tolerance for all these vices and anyone caught will be shown out of the institution.”