The management of Prince Abubakar Audu University, formerly Kogi State University, Ayingba, Kogi State, has said the institution never at any time presented N2000 and N5000 cash gifts to best graduating students and those who made first-class during the recently concluded 6th combined convocation ceremonies.
The university said it would soon announce its rewards to deserving graduates at the appropriate time.Mr Tenuche said the tradition of the university since inception was to offer automatic employment with an option of rejection to all first-class graduates in the institution, a policy he said has not been changed.
“The PAAU had at no time, and did not after the 6th convocation, offer such reward to her best graduating and overall students who made first-class after painstaking and rigorous efforts to distinguish themselves.”The university said the monies given to the students ”were personal donations by individual lecturers and departments to appreciate academic excellence”.
“It may interest those behind the misleading information to note that while the university is yet to make a pronouncement on the reward for the best graduating and first-class students, we are not unmindful of the fact that some individual lecturers in some faculties and departments of the students who excelled, with particular reference to the faculty of agriculture, made personal efforts to appreciate their best graduating students.