A UNILORIN Medicine Graduate has made history after
she won 19 prizes at the University's 32nd Convocation
ceremony.
Yusuf Ololade Faidat
Yusuf Ololade Faidat is not just brilliant, she is also an
outstanding pacesetter. The super brilliant woman who
is one of the graduands at the University of Ilorin 32nd
convocation ceremony took home 19 prizes yesterday.
Dailytrust reports that Faidat, who is in her early 20s
beat the men in her department to win the prize for the
best graduating student from the Department of
Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences.
She received the prize of N20,000 awarded each session
by the Senate to the student adjudged to be the best in
each faculty.
She also got another prize of N10,000, awarded by the
Senate to the best student in each department. Faidat
also took home prizes for best student in the
departments of Behavioural Sciences, Pathology,
Community medicine, Paediatrics and child health,
Medicine, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and gynaecology
and Surgery.
Also, out of the 12 endowed prizes and scholarships,
Faidat got 10 of them which are; the Henry Adewoye
prize for best graduating student in Chemical pathology,
Late Dr. Hamza Olayinka Brimoh prize for best
graduating student in Medicine, Prof. Mathew Akinyemi
Araoye prize for best graduating student in Medicine,
Abdullahi Mohammed/Ilorin community prize for best
graduating student in Child health.
Others are the late Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki prize for
best graduating student in Medicine, Prof Stephen K.
Odaibo’s prize for best graduating students in Surgery,
Justice Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi’s prize for best
graduating female student in College of medicine,
1992-1995 prize for best overall pre-clinical medical
graduand at 1st professional MBBS and best overall
clinical medical graduand in Part III final MBBS as well
as Albert Anjorin prize donated by the Ilorin Medical
Student Association (ILUMSA) Alumni for best
graduating student in Pathology.
An overjoyed Faidat said her success to was a reward
from the Almighty for her perseverance.
“As a woman you can become whatever you want to be
once you are persistent, irrespective of number of men
around you. I read for about four hours every day,” she
said.
The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National
University Commission (NUC), Prof. Chinedu Mafiana,
who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the
occasion, urged the University of Ilorin to retain her.
He warned university managers in the country against
wasteful spending, saying any fund made available to
them should be spent on productive activities.
“The government is aware of the hardship the citizens
are going through at the moment but I want to assure all
Nigerians that we shall overcome the present economic
doldrums. Our country is blessed with great
potentialities and resources that have yet to be
harnessed. The task to restore our country to economic
prosperity does not depend on government alone. All of
us, men and women of our great country must be
involved in the struggle to build a viable and virile
country for the general well-being”, he said.
she won 19 prizes at the University's 32nd Convocation
ceremony.
Yusuf Ololade Faidat
Yusuf Ololade Faidat is not just brilliant, she is also an
outstanding pacesetter. The super brilliant woman who
is one of the graduands at the University of Ilorin 32nd
convocation ceremony took home 19 prizes yesterday.
Dailytrust reports that Faidat, who is in her early 20s
beat the men in her department to win the prize for the
best graduating student from the Department of
Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences.
She received the prize of N20,000 awarded each session
by the Senate to the student adjudged to be the best in
each faculty.
She also got another prize of N10,000, awarded by the
Senate to the best student in each department. Faidat
also took home prizes for best student in the
departments of Behavioural Sciences, Pathology,
Community medicine, Paediatrics and child health,
Medicine, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and gynaecology
and Surgery.
Also, out of the 12 endowed prizes and scholarships,
Faidat got 10 of them which are; the Henry Adewoye
prize for best graduating student in Chemical pathology,
Late Dr. Hamza Olayinka Brimoh prize for best
graduating student in Medicine, Prof. Mathew Akinyemi
Araoye prize for best graduating student in Medicine,
Abdullahi Mohammed/Ilorin community prize for best
graduating student in Child health.
Others are the late Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki prize for
best graduating student in Medicine, Prof Stephen K.
Odaibo’s prize for best graduating students in Surgery,
Justice Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi’s prize for best
graduating female student in College of medicine,
1992-1995 prize for best overall pre-clinical medical
graduand at 1st professional MBBS and best overall
clinical medical graduand in Part III final MBBS as well
as Albert Anjorin prize donated by the Ilorin Medical
Student Association (ILUMSA) Alumni for best
graduating student in Pathology.
An overjoyed Faidat said her success to was a reward
from the Almighty for her perseverance.
“As a woman you can become whatever you want to be
once you are persistent, irrespective of number of men
around you. I read for about four hours every day,” she
said.
The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National
University Commission (NUC), Prof. Chinedu Mafiana,
who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the
occasion, urged the University of Ilorin to retain her.
He warned university managers in the country against
wasteful spending, saying any fund made available to
them should be spent on productive activities.
“The government is aware of the hardship the citizens
are going through at the moment but I want to assure all
Nigerians that we shall overcome the present economic
doldrums. Our country is blessed with great
potentialities and resources that have yet to be
harnessed. The task to restore our country to economic
prosperity does not depend on government alone. All of
us, men and women of our great country must be
involved in the struggle to build a viable and virile
country for the general well-being”, he said.
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