By Ovat Abeng
About eight thousand students have been matriculated at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University COOU Igbariam, Anambra State.
It was gathered the 2024/2025 matriculation ceremony for the fresh 8,000 undergraduate students marked the formal closure of admission of the students into the Institution.
The matriculation ceremony for all the faculties of the School was held Simultaneously at Igbariam and Uli campuses respective, on Saturday.
At the Igbariam campus, the permanent site of the University, the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kate Azuka Omenugha, during her opening speech announced that the university has performed exceedingly well in academics within one and half year of her administration.
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She admonished the fresh students to allowed the University run through them, to be good behaviour, shun cultism, shun bad company, drug intakes, examination misconduct, certificate forgery, as well as take their studies seriously for them to successfully end with the acquisition of a university degree.
She also urged parents to always pay their children school fees as and when due to enable the university maintain existing facilities and provide new ones, even as he advised them to always visit their children in school unannounced, as it will help to curtail their excesses.
Some of the newly admitted students, including Ms Lilian Ejiofor, of Pyschology Department, and Ms Okoro Chinsom Jennifer, of Mass Communication Department, expressed excitement at finally being admitted into Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, assuring that they will make their parents and the university proud.
On her part, a parent who witnessed the Varsity’s 26th Special Central Silver Jubilee Matriculation ceremony, Mrs Ifeoma Nkirukaba, commended the academic standard of the school, and disclosed that she would encouraged her child to study in the school because Ojukwu University churns out graduates who are excelling in the labour market.
The ceremony climaxed with the administration of oath of allegiance on the new students by the University’s Registrar, Prof Chris Obi.
