UNILORIN Graduate Lateef Muftau Achieves First Class Honours

Lateef Muftau, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Ilorin, celebrated earning First Class Honours with a CGPA of 4.55 out of 5.0, ranking among the top five students in a department of 96 and in the top three per cent of over 11,000 graduates. Reflecting on his five-year journey, Muftau described it as a balancing act between academic performance, career development, and mental health.

He received several awards, including an Academic Advancement Excellence Award and an Academic Students' Representative Award, and participated in the Community-Based Engineering Service programme. Muftau also built a career as a UI/UX, graphic, and motion designer, winning a UI design challenge organized by MALhub and volunteering with Google Developer Groups On Campus.

He acknowledged key mentors, including Professor Kayode Adegun, Dr Hassan Kobe Ibrahim, and Professor Habeeb Ajimotokan, and expressed his ambition to become a world-class engineer who solves real problems.