Meet Ofure Mary Ebhomielen, UI Best Graduating Student with perfect CGPA (7/7)

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka on Tuesday 12th Nov, has unveiled Ofure Mary Ebhomielen, as the best graduating student of the University for 2019.

He revealed this on the first day of the 2019 Convocation ceremonies holding at the International Conference Centre.

Miss Ebhomielen Ofure Mary is a graduate from the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and graduated with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 7.0.

She was given the opportunity to have a special handshake with the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, who could not hide his admiration for the star of the moment.

In her brief speech, which was intermittently interrupted by applause, Ebhomielen, who congratulated her fellow graduands, noted that they were being celebrated because they had burnt the midnight candles.

She noted that success did not come easy, adding that apart from making a good grade in the university, one still needed to prove oneself in the outside world.

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Ebhomielen called on those who did not make upper division to go out there and prove their worth.

Commenting, Olayinka said, “Ofure Mary Ebhomielen is the fourth person ever to have obtained perfect Cummulative Grade Point Average (7.0 out of 7.0) in the 71-year history of the University of Ibadan and the first female. This is worth celebrating and we are indeed very proud of her. The world is now under your feet, Mary, aim for the skies while we keep celebrating you.”

For her peerless feat, she had a special handshake with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, who could not hide his admiration for the academic star.

Olayinka said: “Ofure Mary Ebhomielen is the fourth person ever to have obtained perfect Cummulative Grade Point Average (7.0 out of 7.0) in the 71-year history of the University of Ibadan. And the first female. This is worth celebrating and we are indeed very proud of her. The world is now under your feet, Mary. Aim for the skies while we keep celebrating you”

In her brief speech, intermittently interrupted by applause, Mary, who congratulated her fellow graduands, noted that they were being celebrated for burning the night candles.

She said success did not come easy, adding that apart from making a good grade in the university, one still needed to prove himself or herself in the outside world.

Ebhomielen called on those who did not make upper division to go out there and prove their worth.

Ebhomielen may be the one of the last first class graduate of the premier university to have a CPGA of 7.0.

This is because, the university several years ago, changed its grading system to align with the system in other Nigerian universities and in line with international best practices.

The university from the 2016/17 session changed to 4.0 CGPA scale. This will affect students admitted to the university during the session and it means that students in 300 Level now will not be graded on CPGA 7.0.