The two overall Best Graduating students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye have been awarded with 1M each by the state governor Dapo Abiodun and secured automatic employment.
The students identified as Awolumate Adebisi and Iloka Peter were pointed out for the honor by the Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, who awarded them N1m each in cash prize.
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The governor while making the declaration during the school’s 30th convocation ceremony held on the 31st of January, 2022, also revealed that the two students were also offered automatic employment.
He wrote on his Facebook page:
“I made an offer of employment to the overall best graduating students: Miss Awolumate Adebisi and Mr Iloka Peter, at the 30th and 31st Convocation Ceremony of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye held this morning.
“The graduands were further encouraged with a cash prize of 1 million Naira each, and we will be taking it further by constructing a 1600-bed hostel in a bid to provide more infrastructure for better conditions.”
Reactions trail the governor’s kind gesture:
When the story of the cash award and job offer was shared by the governor, it attracted a number of reactions from his followers. Here are a few:
Olaniyi Ayoola wrote: “While we appreciate this gesture I want to advise the governor to look into the various charges being levied students in this institution. I think it’s time they are streamlined and reduced to encourage more brilliant wards of average Ogun indigenes.”
Oladunmoye Toheeb Adeola said: “Bravo! This is a good reward for academic excellence. What you have done is reasons enough to encourage others.”
Enitan Oyekanmi commented: “The building of the hostels should be given to private sector initiatives, they will be more efficient and serious. No subsequent government can stop the project.”
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