TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Ayodele Daniel Dada, who emerged the overall best graduating student of University of Lagos (UNILAG) with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00, yesterday said that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) seized his Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) result on several occasions.
This, he said, forced him to gain admission through an alternative route, UNILAG Foundation programme.
Dada, a graduate of Psychology, who was the cynosure of all eyes at the 2014/2015 convocation ceremony of the institution, was showered with encomiums and glowing tribute by the entire university community at the ceremony.
Dada, a graduate of Psychology, who was the cynosure of all eyes at the 2014/2015 convocation ceremony of the institution, was showered with encomiums and glowing tribute by the entire university community at the ceremony.
According to him: “My JAMB result was seized repeatedly by JAMB, apparently due to my impossible sterling performance in them after which I had to sought admission into UNILAG through its foundation programme in 2011.
“When I decided I was going to study Psychology, I devoted three months to preparing for the JAMB/UTME, and I really studied hard for it with confidence that when the result is out, I was going to be given admission. After few weeks, I discovered my result had been seized by JAMB; that was in 2011. I felt sad but I took it as fate. I initially wanted to go through the complaining procedures but it was taking too long. I really wanted to resume quickly, so I took the Diploma option, the foundation programme. That was how I came into UNILAG.”
He said while in school, his learning strategy was all encompassing, as having good relationship with everybody around him matters most.
Disclosing that if he hadn’t studied Psychology, he wouldn’t have studied any other course, Dada said he wants to get to the highest echelon of his career.
He further stated that he had to support himself in school at some point even though his father, an accountant and his mother, a teacher, were capable of catering for him, saying that it was his resolve that he wasn’t going to depend on anybody.
Among the prizes he got for his outstanding performance are the N100,000 VC’s prize for the best all round performance in the university at the degree level (including the College of Medicine); N250,000 Elumelu Legacy Prize for the same category; N50,000 UNILAG Parent Forum Prize for the overall First Class student and N50,000 late Prof. Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe’s prize for the best graduating student, among others.
National President, UNILAG Alumni Association, Olorogun Sonny Kuku, announced a N500,000 award for the alumni’s prize to the overall best graduating first degree student.
The prize, originally N100,000, was increased to half a million, a shift Kuku said, was because of Dada’s great achievement, adding: “The association is giving him N100,000 for every CGPA that he made.”
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