First Class graduates received N2,000 from Kogi State University. Last year, their colleagues in UNN, were gifted N1,000
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
For 71 days, White Money, winner of the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye Edition, got N90 million, plus other largesse, including all-expense trip to Dubai.
Federal lawmakers earn at least N13 million monthly for sitting thrice a week to deliberate laws and policies in the National Assembly.
But the overall best student of the Kogi State University received N5,000 for coming top among the thousands of graduates in the recent convocation of the school. Those who bagged First Class were gifted N2,000.
A news website, Sahara Reporters, said one of the First Class graduates shared his cheque with the medium, a United Bank for Africa cheque showing the paltry sum of N2000 as a reward for his academic excellence. The cheque was dated 26th January 2022.
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“This was at a recent convocation. N2000 was given to all first-class graduating students and N5000 to the overall best graduands,” the news website quoted the First-Class graduate who pleaded anonymity.
In June 2021, the same news medium said it reported how the University Of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, Enugu State also awarded N1,000 to best graduating students as prizes during its 49th convocation.
It said parents and visitors were disappointed and angry that the first-generation university could award such ridiculous prizes to its best brains at a public ceremony.
It had been gathered from page 28 of the programme booklet that, “Faculty of the Social Sciences; Prof Onigu Otite Prize for the best graduating student in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Value (N1000), Onwuneme Victory A.
“Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation Prize to the best graduating student in Economics, Value (N1000), Okafor John Chimezie; Chief Enoch Ifediora Oil Prize to the best graduating student in the Department of Geography, Value (N1000) Ukata Nkemakonam. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu memorial prize to the best final year student in the Faculty of Business Administration, Value (N1500) Nwankwo Esther.”