Friends, family and participants present at the University of Ilorin Convocation ceremony were wowed yesterday as Yusuf Ololade Faidat carted 19 prize awards in total during the event.
The Female Medical student in her 20s beat her peers to the prize of the Best graduating student.
In honour of the academic feat, she was gifted the a cash prize of N20,000.
She also collected the N10,000 cash prize allocated by the Senate of the University to the best student in each department.
Faidat took home with her from the event the award for the best student in the departments of Behavioural Sciences, Pathology, Community Medicine, Paediatrics and Child Health, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Surgery.
Along with the prizes, she also swept up 10 of the 12 endowed prizes and scholarships which include; the Henry Adewoye prize for best graduating student in Chemical Pathology, Late Dr. Hamza Olayinka Brimoh prize for the 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.
Other awards include; the late Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki prize for best graduating student in Medicine, Prof Stephen K. Odaibo’s prize for best graduating student in Surgery, Justice Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi’s prize for best graduating female student in the 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 the Albert Anjorin prize donated by the Ilorin Medical Student Association (ILUMSA) Alumni for best graduating student in Pathology.
Speaking on the incredible feat, Faidat said: “As a woman you can become whatever you want to be once you are persistent, irrespective of the number of men around you. I read for about four hours every day.”
