Before now, there had been disquiet over how government officials and other privileged stakeholders relate to phenomenally excelling students or graduates.
While winners in the entertainment circle are, for instance, often bountifully rewarded, their counterparts in book matters get paltry attention.
No wonder, there was complaint when Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, gifted Laycon, a BBNaija winner, money and a house after he had got the N60m prize for the reality show.
Laycon is an Ogun indigene.
But the governor, on Wednesday, showed that he does not discriminate against academic excellence when he uniquely rewarded Joy Adesina, who is the best graduating medical student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Joy is also from the state that has produced icons in many fields – including the late Obafemi Awolowo, Hubert Ogunde, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, MKO Abiola, and living legends like Professor Wole Soyinka as well as former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
At a brief ceremony at the Governor’s Office Abeokuta, Abiodun announced the following for Dr Adesina who recorded several distinctions in the course of her medical training at OAU :
1. a Bungalow at Ogun State Housing Estate
2. N5 Million
3. Award for Residency studies at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH.
Of course, many believe that Joy deserves all the good things for her brilliance, commitment and success.
Below are her feats at Great Ife:
1. NIGERIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PRIZE: To the student with the best overall result in the M.B.Ch.B degree examination
2. FACULTY PRIZE: For the candidate with the best overall Performance in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences.
3. OLANINGBE MAKANJUOLA MEMORIAL PRIZE: To the best student in Medicine and Medical Specialities in Part 111 MBChB degree examination.
4. DR. OLUYEMI O. BADERO FOUNDATION PRIZE: For the best overall student in the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) Final Examination in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences
5. MAJOR GENERAL OLUFEMI OLUTOYE PRIZE: To the student with the best overall performance in the first professional examination
6. ADELINE OLU AJAYI: To the best graduating student in Physiology in the second MBChB Examination
7. GLAXO ALLENBURY PRIZE: To the student with the best result in the final M.B.Ch. B degree examination in Paediatrics
8. PAEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA PRIZE: To the student with the best result in the final M.B.Ch. B degree examination in Paediatrics
9. PROFESSOR O TAIWO MEMORIAL PRIZE: To the student with the highest mark in clinical examination in the final MB.Ch.B examination in Paediatrics
DISTINCTIONS:
1. Distinction in Surgery
2. Distinction in Community Health
3. Distinction in Obstetrics and Gynecology
4. Distinction in Pediatrics and Child Health
5. Distinction in Dermatology
6. Distinction in Mental Health
7. Distinction in Pharmacology
8. Distinction in Anatomy
9. Distinction in Biochemistry
10 Distinction in Physiology
