The best-graduating student for the 2021\/2022 set in Lagos State University (LASU) , Ojo, Aminat Yusuf, says the right mentoring by lecturers, hard work, and God\u2019s guidance were major factors for her success.<\/p>\n
Yusuf, whose father is a journalist and mother a businesswoman, also thanked her\u00a0parents for motivating and inspiring her to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n
She spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, in Lagos, in which she shared her experience during her undergraduate days.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yusuf, an Edo indigene, finished with a Cumulative Grade Point Average \u00a0(CGPA) of 5.00 (First Class Honours)<\/p>\n
She said that the listed factors helped her to be the best-graduating student of her set and in LASU\u2019s years of existence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe events of the past few days have motivated me to share in brief my story, in a bid to inspire many others who are in a similar situation as I was and are striving towards excellence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Yusuf said this was considering\u00a0the financial situation of her parents, coupled with the fact that was the first child.<\/p>\n
\u201dI called for financial support only under compelling circumstances, after\u00a0I have exhausted all options.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs\u00a0a result, I experienced some serious financial constraints during my two plus four years stay at LASU.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 200 Level, \u00a0second semester, just because I needed to get a browsing phone and get trained in computer skills, I saved up about 90 percent of my feeding allowance,\u201d Yusuf said.<\/p>\n
She said that she settled for garri and groundnuts for a larger part of the semester, which one of her friends considered absurd and told every available listener.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the most part of my days as an undergraduate, I lived in the university premises, because I had no hostel, and going home every day would have been absolutely inconvenient.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe school had a stand-by security and standard lighting system, so, it was safe for me; my major challenge was having to attend lectures every day in a neatly ironed white and black dress, acting like everything was perfect,\u201d Yusuf said.<\/p>\n
She also spoke on her first day in LASU for the physical screening, towards admission into diploma in the law programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember fantasizing about achieving a remarkable feat in this prestigious university.<\/p>\n
\u201cI first did Diploma in Law programme, which runs for two years, in which students are taught compulsory law courses, with a view to offering direct entry admission to top class students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI studied really hard and prayed so fervently towards achieving excellence; I graduated from the programme with a CGPA of 4.98 and this was the best in my set.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe possibility of graduating with such a grade motivated the yearning to graduate with a perfect CGPA at the undergraduate level,\u201d Yusuf said.<\/p>\n
She called on well-meaning Nigerians to invest in the education sector and lauded the passing into law of the Student Loan Act in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe this will no doubt be of immeasurable value to our education system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I struggled financially through my education, I don\u2019t desire such hardship for students coming behind us, especially the female students,\u201d Yusuf said.<\/p>\n
She appreciated the LASU management for sustaining the congenial and conducive environment that contributed to her excellent performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply grateful to my parents for their sacrifice and unwavering support towards my education.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents really motivated me from their different careers; my father is a journalist while my mother is a businesswoman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to my faculty lecturers for their reflex of excellence, commitment, and dedication in teaching us to be the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will like to use this opportunity to launch a YouTube channel tagged \u201cLearning Law with Aminat* with the goal of giving back to society through my immediate community,\u201d Yusuf said upon her acclaim as LASU\u2019s best-graduating student.<\/p>\n
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