The Lagos State governing administration has given college scholarships to two pupils in the state who have the best outcomes in the past year’s university-centered West African Senior University Certification Evaluation (WASSCE) conducted by the West African Exams Council (WAEC).
The duo, who are both males, and from the same school, Vetland Senior Grammar University, Agege, are Abiodun Anuoluwapo Favour and Sholana Taiwo Mohammed.
While the previous had distinctions in 8 topics in the test, the latter had distinctions in 7 subjects and they are equally now 100- amount pupils at the University of Lagos (Akoka) learning Medication and Surgical procedures as well as Chemical Engineering, respectively.
Also although Favour scored 329 out of doable 400 marks in the final year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculations Evaluation (UTME) executed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Sholana scored 340.
They are to be supplied N200, 000 each and every 12 months until they graduate from UNILAG five or six decades time all things being equal.
Similarly, the point out federal government has equally rewarded 9 other students who gained a single prize or the other in the various nationwide and worldwide educational competitions held in the previous one year, and one of them from a private school.
The college students involved Mustapha Garuba from Abibat Mogaji Millenium Senior Secondary College and Ajasa Kehinde Timilehin from Jakande Estate Extensive Senior Faculty, who each received the star prize in the 2020 and 2021 Stockholm Junior Drinking water Levels of competition, respectively, and Divine Ebere from Vetland Senior Grammar University, Agege and Olajide Akorede and Samuel Seidu from Brainfield College (a non-public college) who won the 1st placement in the National Physics Competition for 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Other folks are Oladipupo Marvelous from Govt Technical School Agidingbi and Samuel Seidu yet again from Branifield College who received 2021 Very best Significant Thinker in the African Leadership Academy level of competition and next posture in the 2021 Oluwole Awokoya Chemistry Competitors, respectively
They have all obtained their prizes which include things like certificates of recognition, trophy, notebook, and cash reward as applicable, on Friday, at the Meeting corridor of the state’s ministry of education and learning in Ikeja.
In her remarks at the occasion after presenting them with their prizes and asserting the N200,000 scholarship for the two Unilag learners, the state Commissioner for Instruction, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, counseled each and every of them and their instructors for their excellent performances.
She urged them to keep on being concentrated on, and be dedicated to, their academic pursuits and other reputable activities expected of them as they journey alongside.
She mentioned the point out federal government and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and herself, in particular, are proud of them, inquiring them not to allow for anything to derail them from the route of excellence they have chosen.
Speaking previously, the Lasting Secretary of the ministry, Mr Abayomi Abolaji, mentioned the condition authorities would carry on to help and reward learners at all levels who stand out from others.
He said the achievement of each of the pupils was an sign of their determination to their tutorial pursuits and they should not relent on that.
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