Trinity University Yaba Graduates 323, 79 First Class

Trinity University, Yaba, Lagos, will graduate 323 students at its fifth convocation ceremony on Friday, October 16, with 79 of them, about 24.46 per cent, earning First Class honours and two achieving a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00.

The university's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Clement Kolawole, disclosed the figures on Monday at a pre-convocation press briefing held at the institution's Celebration Arena, which also flagged off a week of convocation activities.

The two students with perfect scores are Osayuware Toluwalase Osazuwa of the Department of International Relations and Osemen Joy Esezobor of the Department of Computer Science. "Two of our graduating students finished with perfect CGPA of 5.00, a remarkable achievement that reflects their commitment to academic excellence," Kolawole said.

According to the Vice-Chancellor, 147 graduands obtained Second Class Upper Division, 48 earned Second Class Lower Division, and 10 graduated with Third Class honours. By faculty, 161 graduands come from the Faculty of Basic Medical and Applied Sciences, 109 from the Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences, and 53 from the Faculty of Nursing Sciences.

The ceremony comes only months after the university's fourth convocation, held in March, when 200 students graduated and 51 earned First Class honours. Kolawole explained that the shorter gap is deliberate. He described it as a student-first reorganisation approved by the Governing Council, designed to bring convocation closer to the time students actually finish their programmes, instead of making them wait almost a year. The university now intends to hold two convocations within a single academic session so that graduates do not face a long gap between their final examinations and graduation.

The convocation is themed "Convoking a Galaxy of Trinity Stars – Shining the Trinity Light to the World." The week's programme includes a convocation lecture, a thanksgiving service, student activities, an alumni homecoming, and professional induction ceremonies for graduates in Nursing Science and Medical Laboratory Science. Degrees will be conferred and prizes presented on Friday.

Kolawole said the university has continued to expand its academic programmes and infrastructure, recruit qualified staff, and strengthen its focus on entrepreneurship and graduate employability. "We have deepened our commitment to entrepreneurship and employability by making skills acquisition compulsory for all students alongside their core programmes," he said.

He also disclosed that some students have secured international remote jobs through a partnership focused on digital literacy, in some cases before graduating. The detail points to a wider trend among Nigerian universities, which are increasingly pairing degree programmes with practical digital skills as graduate unemployment remains a concern.

The numbers also show how quickly Trinity has grown. The university was established in 2019 with nine pioneering students. Its maiden convocation graduated 72 students, 20 of them with First Class honours. By its third convocation in March 2025, the institution had graduated a cumulative 194 students, and the March 2026 ceremony pushed that figure to at least 394. Student enrolment has since passed 2,000, and this week's cohort of 323 is the largest in its history so far.

The proportion of First Class graduates has stayed fairly steady across recent ceremonies, at roughly a quarter of each graduating class: about 23 per cent in March 2025, 25.5 per cent in March 2026, and 24.46 per cent this month. Perfect 5.00 CGPAs have now been recorded at consecutive convocations, with two such graduates in March and two again this week.

The university has also broadened its offerings over time. The March 2025 ceremony included its first graduates in Nursing and Medical Laboratory Science, and the March 2026 edition produced its first set of diploma graduates. This month's induction ceremonies for Nursing Science and Medical Laboratory Science graduates reflect the growing weight of health-related programmes in its academic profile.

With convocation week now under way, attention turns to Friday's ceremony, when the 323 graduands will formally receive their degrees and the university will present prizes to outstanding students.