Officials from First Bank PLC visited Covenant University to explore a strategic partnership aimed at establishing an Experience Centre and Research Hub on the University campus. This initiative is expected to bring significant benefits to the Covenant University community.

In commemoration of the 2025 World Malaria Day, the Covenant Applied Informatics and Communication Africa Centre of Excellence (CApIC-ACE), Covenant University,  in partnership with the Covenant University Community Development Impact Initiative Committee (CU-CDIIC) and the Ado/Odo-Ota Local Government recently organized a one-day health outreach at the Iju Primary Health Centre in Ota, Ogun State.

Covenant University recently took a significant step towards revolutionizing agricultural research and innovation in Africa, by hosting a delegation from the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS), China. The visit focused on building strategic partnerships to tackle food insecurity and enhance agri-tech development across the two continents.

Professor Anthony Adoghe, a distinguished scholar in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at Covenant University, Ota, has strongly criticized the inefficiencies plaguing Nigeria’s power sector.

Delivering the University’s 33rd Inaugural Lecture on April 25, 2025, at the Covenant University Chapel, Professor Adoghe highlighted the country’s chronic electricity outages, attributing them largely to significant losses in power generation and distribution even before reaching end users.

Three talented students from Covenant University have emerged victorious in the inaugural University Duels Competition, which recently took place in Lagos. The students - Gift Chukwuma, Tioluwani Kayode,  and Alero Afinotan, excelled throughout the competition, overcoming prestigious institutions such as the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and the University of Lagos, who provided fierce competition in the semi-finals.

A notable academic research paper has been recently published by a Covenant University Cancer Research Don, of the Department of Biochemistry, Professor Solomon Rotimi, titled, ‘Screening of Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variants in Nigerian Breast Cancer Patients,’ in the Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment journal.

On April 4th, 2025, Kora Pay, a company founded by a Covenant University alumnus and employing several of the University’s graduates, paid a courtesy visit to the University’s management. The delegation was led by Dr. Steven Oluwatobi, the Chief Operating Officer of Kora Pay, who is also an alumnus of Covenant University. Dr. Oluwatobi took the opportunity to extend the CEO’s, Mr. Dickson Nsofor’s, apologies for being unable to show up due to another commitment but assured that he would visit in the future.

A two-man team from the University of Warwick arrived Covenant University on April 3, 2025, with the goal of exploring opportunities for deeper collaboration between the two institutions and to participate in the National Budget Roundtable Conference, taking place at Covenant University on the same day.

Covenant University officially commenced the 2024/2025 Omega Semester academic session with a Welcome Assembly which served multiple purposes; it was a time to thank God for journey mercies, seek His guidance for the new semester, and reaffirm the institution’s commitment to academic excellence.