AFIT to graduate 3,000 students as 305 obtain First Class
The Commandant of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), AVM Adeniran Ademuwagun, says the institute will graduate no fewer than 3,000 students at its combined convocation ceremony slated to hold from March 26 to March 28, 2026.
Ademuwagun said on Thursday in Kaduna at a press conference that the combined convocation would involves the 2nd, 3rd and 4th set of graduates of the institute.
He said the event would feature induction ceremony into the engineering profession by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), exhibitions, project commissioning and convocation lecture.
According to him, 513 of the graduating students are from Aerospace Engineering and Aircraft Engineering Technology, underscoring the strategic importance of AFIT to the Nigerian Air Force and the nation’s aviation industry.
The commandant explained that AFIT remains Nigeria’s only tripartite institution integrating military, polytechnic and university programmes.
He gave a breakdown of the graduates as 2,112 from programmes accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), 729 from the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and 159 from the School of Postgraduate Studies.
On academic performance, Ademuwagun said 305 students graduated with first-class honours across various disciplines, while 146 obtained distinctions in NBTE programmes and 51 recorded distinctions at the postgraduate level.
He identified the overall best graduating students as Oluwole Winner Oluwatimilehin (Aerospace Engineering), Ahmed Amrah Abdulkadir (Cyber Security), and Babalola-Jacobs David Oluwasegun (Physics), each with a near-perfect CGPA of 4.99.
The commandant announced the expansion of the institute’s postgraduate programme, with Master’s degree offerings increased from two to 12, while postgraduate diploma programmes also went up from four to 12 disciplines with effect from the next academic session.
He said the expansion aligns with his vision to position AFIT as Nigeria’s leading centre for advance technology education and research, aimed at strengthening the Nigerian Air Force’s operational and strategic capabilities.
Ademuwagun further stated that all graduating students would receive their original certificates immediately after the convocation, describing the initiative as a rare practice among public universities in the country.