By Benjamin Adamafio Commey
Accra, May 24, GNA – Pentecost University (PU) on Saturday graduated 190 students at the second session of its 17th congregation for the 2024/2025 academic year.
The graduates were drawn from the Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Health and Allied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science and Computing, College of Foundation and Professional Studies, and the Pentecost School of Theology and Mission.
The graduation ceremony marked the final batch of graduands on the trimester track for the 2024/2025 academic year, bringing the total number of graduates for the academic year to 1,602.
The first batch of the 17th congregation, held in December 2025, saw 1,412 students graduating across certificate, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Speaking at the congregation, Apostle Professor Kwabena Agyapong-Kodua, Vice-Chancellor of Pentecost University, said the institution continued to make significant progress under the second phase of its University A+ Agenda, which was aligned with the Vision 2023/2028 agenda of The Church of Pentecost.
He explained that the University A+ Agenda was anchored on four pillars: strengthening spiritual vitality and institutional culture, ensuring financial sustainability, promoting academic excellence and innovation, and expanding infrastructural development.
Apostle Prof. Agyapong-Kodua said under the first pillar, the university had strengthened its spiritual environment through fasting and prayers, joint university community services, mentorship programmes and staff devotions.
“These activities have fostered unity, spiritual reflection, revival, and deeper commitment among staff and students,” he said.
On financial sustainability, the Vice-Chancellor said management had exercised prudent financial discipline through strict procurement practices, effective budgetary controls and strategic deferment of selected activities to maintain institutional stability.
He noted that under the academic excellence pillar, the university had expanded local and international collaborations to enhance its relevance and societal impact.
Among the achievements highlighted were the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ghana Prisons Service for training and capacity-building initiatives and an academic partnership with the Directorate General of Maritime Affairs of Côte d’Ivoire.
Again, he said, this was evident in the number of international students that the university had attracted, from 35 before it received its charter in 2020 to now 350.
Apostle Prof. Agyapong-Kodua also disclosed that significant progress had been made on the Pentecost Engineering Village project, road and drainage works, and plans for the construction of three student hostels.
He, however, acknowledged challenges relating to financial resource mobilisation and infrastructural completion timelines, saying management was instituting measures to ensure the successful completion of ongoing projects.
The Vice-Chancellor congratulated the graduands and urged them to uphold the values of integrity, excellence and service as ambassadors of Pentecost University.
“You are leaving this institution with knowledge in your minds, values in your hearts, and purpose in your spirits,” he said.
“Never underestimate your ability to make a difference. The world needs PU-type graduates. Refuse to conform to negative societal standards. Instead, be spiritually deep and academically rigorous.”
Apostle Dr Eric Nyamekye, Chancellor of Pentecost University, in a speech read on his behalf, said the university remained committed to producing graduates who were intellectually competent, spiritually grounded and ethically disciplined.
He said the congregation theme, “Graduates Unleashed to Transform Cultures, Generations and Systems,” reflected the university’s vision of raising transformative leaders for society.
“In today’s rapidly changing world, universities must produce not only skilled professionals, but also principled leaders, responsible citizens, innovative thinkers, and compassionate servants of humanity,” he emphasised.
Apostle Nyamekye urged the graduands to reject mediocrity and become ambassadors of integrity, innovation, humility and faith wherever they found themselves.
He reminded them that “knowledge without character can become dangerous, and success without purpose can become empty.”
He also commended the university’s Governing Council, management, faculty, staff, parents, guardians and stakeholders for their sacrifices and contributions towards the growth of the institution.
Delivering the valedictory speech, Ms Christiana Nyarkoah, the valedictorian, said the university had not only equipped students academically, but had also nurtured them morally and spiritually through mentorship programmes, church services and student-centred initiatives that promoted integrity, discipline and purpose.
She, therefore, urged her fellow graduates to become agents of transformation by impacting cultures with integrity, generations through inspiration and systems through ethical leadership and innovation.
GNA
Edited by Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: Benjamin Adamafio Commey