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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Mimiko awards scholarship to WAEC’s best student

The Olusegun Mimiko-led government of Ondo State has awarded Miss Tolulope Falokun with a scholarship to study Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife for doing the state proud as the overall best student in the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) conducted in 2011.
Mr Remi Olatubora, the state Commissioner for Education, announced the award at a colourful ceremony held in honour of the St Louis Akure student, described by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, as a celebration of excellence.
Olatubora mentioned at the ceremony that, apart from the full scholarship, the awardee would also benefit from the state government’s annual bursaries and scholarships and other packages provided for Law students both at the university and the Law School by the state government.
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The commissioner described the event as a very important occasion designed to recognise the outstanding performance of the student who recorded A1 in all the nine subjects she offered in the examinations.
He added that Tolulope also scored 290 in the Year 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and emerged the second overall best student in the Post-UTME Examination conducted by the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile –Ife with 336 marks.
Olatubora noted that in the last three years, the present administration in Ondo State had invested massively in the state’s education sector, stressing that, “we have begun to harvest what we have put in the education sector in the last three years.”
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