By Damilare Adeleye
The management of Lagos State University (LASU) has refuted report that some of its HND Conversion students have not graduated since 2020.
The school authorities, through a statement signed by Oluwayemisi Thomas-Onashile,
Coordinator, Centre for Information and Public Relations of the institution, described the report as lies and half-truths which appeared to smear the image of the university.
The institution clarified that its HND/B.Sc Conversion programme which is a programme designed for two academic sessions, officially commenced at the University in 2020.
It said it could not have been possible for the University to graduate the newly admitted students in the same year of entry – 2020, as reflected in the report’s headline.
The management clarified further that, “Students who have met the graduation requirements have all been presented and cleared by the University Senate for graduation, an assertion that can be confirmed in the 26th Convocation brochure of the university. A total of Forty-Eight (48) duly registered students graduated at the 26th Convocation of the University, Twelve (12) students’ results are awaiting the approval of the Senate while others have pending issues.
“The University, like other academic institutions, has a time frame for the opening and closing of its portal (be it for payment, registration, examination, or other academic purposes). Any student who does not utilise this time frame as expected would automatically be shut out. This might have accounted for some of them not being able to register. However, students who registered within the given time frame and sat for their examinations are able to access their results on the portal once it is released by the Directorate of Information and Communication Technology (DICT).”
It added, “Our findings further revealed that some of the students who were yet to be cleared, and probably sponsored the so-called report DID NOT go through the right channel for registration of courses, and might have engaged the services of surrogates to do the registration on their behalf which is always to their disadvantage.
“Some of the students who DID NOT comply with the rules and regulations guiding the process wanted the University to waive courses that they DID NOT pass, and those concerned were requested to take all their failed courses as carry-over, but, they were NOT willing.”
The university authority urged stakeholders and the general public to discountenance the malicious report, saying that they should seek valid information concerning all the academic programmes of the institution on the official platforms of the university.