American University Graduates 260 Students in Adamawa

By Garba Mohammad
The American university of Nigeria (AUN) Yola at the weekend graduated a total of 260 students during its sixth commencement ceremony held in Yola, Adamawa State.
The ceremony saw the award of degrees and diplomas .The graduands obtained First Class, Second Class Upper division, Second Class Lower and Third Class in the various disciplines.
The 12 year old institution during the occasion at Lamido Aliyu Mustapha commencement hall graduated six postgraduate master degrees in information technology; seventeen others were also awarded post graduate master in management.
Similarly, six other students were awarded with master’s degree in information technology, seventeen others were also obtained master’s in management. While the 237 were awarded with first degree in various disciplines.
In her address at the occasion, the President of the university, Professor Margee Ensign charged the graduates to be good ambassadors of the school in whatever endeavors they find themselves.
“I congratulate you on your most recent accomplishment, and a bit humbled.All of you are uniquely talented in one way or another and you should be good Ambassadors of the university in bringing quality leadership and development to Africa.” Ensign said.
The occasion also witnessed the conferment of the Doctor of letters (Honoris Causa ) on Ambassador John Simon, a former United States ambassador to the African Union.
According to her, Ambassador Simon has served as the executive vice president of Overseas Private Investment Cooperation ( OPIC) where he championed the agency’s creation of social development funds for Africa which resulted in the creation of four private equity funds focused on achieving extra ordinary social result.
Simon who was the Guest Speaker at the commencement maintained that the collective decision of freedom and good leadership between America and Africa would go a long way towards determining the bright future of Africa.
“I made my first trip to the Continent a dozen years ago – flying into Khartoum as part of a USAID delegation, seeking to provide aid to the refugees from the war in the South.
” Two years before, the Economist had featured a famous cover calling Africa “The Hopeless Continent.” Simon said.
He expressed the belief that Africa’s economies have become among the fastest growing in the world, foreign direct investment has increased by more than an order of magnitude, and free and fair elections are now the rule, not the exception. Last year in March, the Economist’s Cover was “Africa Rising.”