The management of the University of Ibadan on Friday announced Tuesday, March 16 for its 2020/2021 academic session virtual matriculation ceremony.
According to a statement, the virtual matriculation would come up at 10.00am in the Trenchard Hall of the institution.
The statement stressed that a total of 8197 newly admitted students are expected to participate in the ceremony in which the University Registrar, Mrs. Olubunmi Faluyi will administer the matriculation oath on them.
In the statement, the breakdown of the fresh students shows 4243 are from the conventional mode while 3954 are from the open and distance education (ODE) for parity of esteem.
It added that the matriculation speaker is Dr. Boluwatife Ikwunne, an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a 2020 Young Innovation Leaders Fellow and winner of the 2021 Rhodes scholarship for West Africa, set to undertake postgraduate studies in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, in October, this year.
The acting vice-chancellor, Prof. Adebola Babatunde Ekanola, would preside over the all-important ceremony.
