Six FUOYE graduates win PhD scholarships in U.S, Brazil
…as varsity produces historic first female SUG President-elect
Six first-degree graduates of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE, Ekiti State, have won doctoral degree scholarships with research assistantship positions to top-rated universities in the United States of America, USA, and Brazil.
This was just as the university made history by producing the first female Student Union Government, SUG, President-elect in Southwest Nigeria, Miss. Abiodun Olorunshola Mary.
The graduates are from the Faculties of Science and Engineering.
They include Afolabi Mojibola Esther, who clinched FUOYE’s best-graduating student in Geology in 2022. Mariam Okunade, Adeleye Blessing and Toyin Sunday who also graduated with first class honours in industrial Chemistry in the Faculty of Science.
The three others are from the institution’s Faculty of Engineering; they are Alabi Johnson Sunday, Ex-FUOYE SUG President, who graduated in 2021 and won doctorate degree scholarships with a research assistantship at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, Adejumo Olarenwaju Oluwaseyi of the 2020/2021 academic session and Adele Emmanuel Oluwademilo, who graduated with second class upper divisions and won MSc/PhD scholarship of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Commenting on the laudable development, Prof. Olayide Lawal, former Dean of the Faculty of Science and current Director, the Directorate of Research Innovation and Linkage Programme (DRILP), FUOYE, said: “The students showed serious commitment to their studies from the onset.
“They were actively involved in tutorial classes and did not allow social media distractions. My colleagues and I in the Department of Chemistry provided good mentoring for them, having realised that they are responsible, hardworking and well-focused students,” he said.
Congratulating the students for making the university proud, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, said: “We are indeed really proud of this very intelligent graduates of this great university who have made us proud. They have shown to the world that FUOYE offers the best in the quality and standard of university education in all disciplines in this country.
“This is as a result of the provision of conducive learning and teaching environment as well as the presence of sound lecturers who compete brilliantly with their colleagues in the academia anywhere in the world. We congratulate these graduates and wish them the best in all their future endeavours.
We are equally glad that FUOYE has proved to be gender sensitive in all areas through the historic emergence of the first female SUG President-elect, Miss Abiodun Olorunshola Mary. We wish the new student leader a fulfilling and progressive tenure. Congratulations!”
Others who also commended the scholars included Dr. Charles A. Oyelami, Ag. Head of Department, Geology, and Dr K. A Bello, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Source: Vanguard
