Wale Jagun
For her academic excellence and doggedness, a Transportation and Safety expert based in the United States of America (USA), Mr Ayodeji Arojo, has rewarded Miss Aminat Yusuf with the sum of Five Hundred Thousand (N500,000), as reward for her feat as the overall outstanding graduating student of Lagos State University (LASU).
In a statement by his Principal Partner, Steven Anu’ Adesemoye, the Nigerian-born philanthropist stated that his humble background encouraged him to support the brilliant student.
LASU had on it’s official Twitter handle @LASUofficial, announced that, Aminat Yusuf, a graduating student in the Faculty of Law, is the overall best student for the 2021/2022 academic year with a CGPA of 5.00, a feat said to be the first in the 40 years existence of the state university.
Ayodeji’s original gesture to Miss Aminat Yusuf was a full scholarship to the Nigerian Law School, but unknown to him, another well meaning Nigerian was said to have taken up the law school needs of the student, as an endowment, hence, the need to monetize the reward.
“My humble background fires my passion to lift indigent and outstanding youths in their different endeavours. This is my unique way of telling God that I am grateful and didn’t forget where I started. I am giving back to individuals and others who can turn around things”, he said.
The philanthropist promised more rewarding gestures to support the dreams and aspirations of the LASU 26th convocation awardee.
“I am not a politician or holding any political office. I am only passionate about my country and its youths. I also want to give back the little I have to encourage others in the diaspora to emulate the same effort. With sincerity of purpose and dedication, little support like this will encourage other students to be focused and help nurture good talents,” he said.
The Ekiti born American based professional said his humble intervention for the indigent and outstanding youths, would not be a flash in the pan, as he is set to consolidate his efforts with the launch of “Project 50” in primary schools across the 774 local governments of Nigeria.
“Project 50″ is a unique intervention targeted at public primary schools and pupils across Nigerian local governments. The pet project would provide school bags, notebooks, and other needed educational materials for the selected pupils”.
