The Lagos State University (LASU) will confer honorary doctorate degrees on three prominent Nigerians as the institution holds its combined 29th and 30th convocation ceremonies for graduates of the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing journalists on activities lined up for the convocation ceremonies at the university’s Ojo campus.
Among those to be honoured is business magnate and founder of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who will receive a Doctor of Business Honoris Causa in Entrepreneurship, Industrial and Human Capital Development.
Also on the list are Akin Kekere-Ekun, who will receive a Doctor of Business Honoris Causa in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Management, and Harriet-Ann Omobola (Bola) Adesola, who will be awarded a Doctor of Business Honoris Causa in Corporate Finance and Governance.
The university will also use the convocation to recognise academic excellence within its ranks, with Senate approving the conferment of the rank of Distinguished Professor on Prof. Rafiu Olaoluwa Okuneye and Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello.
The combined ceremonies will also bring together more than 20,000 graduands across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, according to figures announced by the university.
At the undergraduate level, 262 students graduated with First Class honours in the 2024/2025 academic session, while 232 achieved the distinction in 2025/2026, bringing the number of First Class graduates across the two sessions to 494.
The university also announced Ayilara Lawal Olawale of the Department of Project Management as the overall best graduating student for 2024/2025, with a CGPA of 4.96.
Adebanjo Samuel Oluolamide of the Department of Aerospace Engineering emerged as the overall best graduating student for 2025/2026, recording a CGPA of 4.97.
Beyond the undergraduate programmes, LASU will confer 1,508 academic master’s degrees, 900 professional master’s degrees, 618 postgraduate diplomas, 238 academic PhDs and 119 professional doctorate degrees.
The convocation programme will also feature a lecture titled, “From LASU to the World: Harnessing the Nigerian Diaspora as the 7th Region for National Development.” The lecture will be delivered by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, while Hon. Tasir Wale Raji, member of the House of Representatives representing Epe Federal Constituency, will chair the event.
Olatunji-Bello also used the briefing to highlight some of the developments recorded by the university under her administration.
She said LASU had retained its position as Nigeria’s most subscribed university for the second consecutive year, attracting more than 84,000 first-choice applications in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
According to her, the university also retained its position as the best university in West Africa in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings for the fourth consecutive year and recorded an improvement in its global ranking.
The Vice Chancellor further noted that the university had sustained its academic activities through the delivery of 20 inaugural lectures across various disciplines during the period under review.
The combined convocation ceremonies are coming towards the end of Olatunji-Bello’s five-year tenure as Vice Chancellor and will provide an opportunity for the university to celebrate its graduands, recognise distinguished personalities and highlight some of its academic and institutional milestones.
