TASUED best graduating students receive promised N6m from Ogun govt

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has fulfilled the N2m cash awards promise he made to 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 Best Graduating Students of Tai Solarin University of Education during the combined convocation of three sessions.

Presenting the cheques on behalf of the governor, the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, said the gesture was to encourage outstanding learners to further improve themselves.

He added that the present administration in the state had made it a tradition to always reward Overall Best Graduating Students in both public and private tertiary institutions across the state with N2M Cash Award and automatic employment.

Arigbabu, according to a statement from the spokesman for the education ministry, Ayoola Obadimu, explained that the generosity took a new dimension during the TASUED convocation ceremony in November, 2023, Abiodun extended the benefits to the Best Graduating Students of each of the Colleges in the institution with N500,000 cash gift.

In their separate remarks, the Best Graduating Student 2021, Sunday Gbodogbe; the Best Graduating Student 2022, Patricia Ogadinma and the Best Graduating Student 2023, Mercy Sanyaolu, appreciated the governor.