The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced a personal donation of N5m and another N5m from the State Government to Aminat Yusuf, for graduating with a CGPA of 5.0 in Law at the Lagos State University, LASU.
The governor made the donation while attending the 26th convocation ceremony of the school today June 22.
[media-credit name=”Picasa” align=”center” width=”1080″][/media-credit] Aminat Yusuf
Apple’s Bite reports that ahead of its 26th convocation ceremony, the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, had announced Ms. Yusuf as the best-graduating student with a cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in its 40 years history.
The university said Ms Yusuf from the Faculty of Law will be rewarded with N500,000 cash prize.
The Vice Chancellor of LASU, Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, who disclosed this in her address at a pre-convocation press briefing on Wednesday, said the ceremony would feature those who graduated during the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic sessions.
Mrs Olatunji-Bello noted that the university would graduate 10,183, of which 282 students obtained First Class in different fields.
She explained that while Ms Yusuf tops the first-class graduates for the 2021/2022 academic session, Feyisayo Lopez from the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine emerged as the best for the 2020/2021 session with a 4.91 CGPA.
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