About ten thousand students have matriculated at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
The 2023/2024 matriculation ceremony for fresh undergraduate students of the university marked the formal closure of admission of fresh students into the school.
The matriculation ceremony for all faculties was held at respective faculty premises within the Awka campus of the university.
At the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Charles Esimone, announced that the university has performed exceedingly well in academics for the past five years as the recent ranking of Time Higher Education World, University Ranking 2024, placed the school as the fifth best university in Nigeria and thirty first in Sub-Saharan Africa ranking.
Professor Esimone whose address was delivered to the students by the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Frank-Collins Okafor, admonished the students to be of good behaviour, shun cultism, examination misconduct, certificate forgery, as well as take their studies seriously for them to successfully end with the acquisition of a university degree.
He 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 Sir Stephen Chukwudi, of Economics Department, and Precious Okoye, of Mass Communication Department, expressed excitement at finally being admitted into Nnamdi Azikiwe University, assuring that they will make their parents and the university proud.
On his part, a parent who witnessed the ceremony, Mr. Anthony Emmanuel, commended the academic standard of the school, and disclosed that he encouraged his child to study in the school because UNIZIK churns out graduates who are excelling in the labour market.
The matriculation ceremony climaxed with the administration of oath of allegiance on the new students by Professor Okafor.
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