14 New Gate varsity students bag first class

Vice Chancellor, New Gate University, Minna, Niger, Prof. Sadiq Yusuf has said that no fewer than 14 students of the University New Gate University, have bagged first class degrees.

Prof Sadiq Yusuf made the disclosure at the Per- Convocation ceremony Media briefing held within the campus of the Private University on Wednesday in Minna, while briefing the Newsmen on the forthcoming maiden Convocation ceremony of the institution.

The vice-chancellor stated that this no-mean-feat was recorded out of a total of 207 graduands from the Faculties of Management and Social Sciences, Computing and ICT as well as Health and Medical Sciences.

Yusuf added that 81 and 88 graduates bagged second class upper and lower degrees, respectively, while 24 graduands clinched third class degrees.

The Vice-chancellor also disclosed that 102 of the graduates were females while 105 were males.

He insisted that the university was gender-balanced, stressing,that “even 60 per cent of our students’ population are females”.

Yusuf further announced that the maiden convocation ceremony would hold on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, at the university’s convocation arena.

The Vice-chancellor, however, described the forthcoming event as a landmark moment in the history of the Institution as it prepares to graduate its first cohort of students.

Yusuf said the university, established in May 2022, had grown steadily within a short period and currently runs 13 academic programmes across four Faculties.

According to him, “10 of them had been been fully accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and other relevant professional bodies”.

He said that the remaining three programmes would be accredited in the 2025/2026 accreditation cycle.

Highlighting the progress recorded since inception, the Prof. Sadiq Yusuf stated that the institution had witnessed remarkable achievements, including the growth of the students’ enrolment from 350 at take-off to nearly 2,000.

According to him, the institution had also attained a 79 per cent success rate in the recent Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria examinations.

This, he said, “was in addition to developing modern classrooms, laboratories and ICT-driven learning systems to enhance effective teaching and research”.

Yusuf said the university had equally expanded its community engagement through outreach programmes and strengthened institutional partnerships.

He added that the university boasts of extant international collaborations with sister institutions in the USA and UK, among others.

Yusuf further outlined the activities lined up for the maiden convocation ceremony to include faculty dinners, special Juma’at prayers, a Sunday Church service, an alumni luncheon and a novelty football match.

According to the Vice-chancellor, the Convocation Lecture would be delivered on December 2, by Prof. Maxwell Gidado, SAN, OON, on the theme: ‘Academic Freedom and University Governance: A Legal Perspective’.

The Vice-chancellor also explained that the university was set to introduce new programmes such as B.Sc Artificial Intelligence, B.Sc Data Science and Community Health.

Yusuf stressed that the institution would also establish a School of Post-Graduate Studies and a Centre for Distance and Electronic Learning.

He expressed appreciation to the Board of Trustees, Governing Council, Senate, staff, students, parents, the NUC, Federal University of Technology, Minna and the media partners for their unwavering support towards the growth and development of the institution.