Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed that the Edo State Government will place Aminat Yusuf who graduated as the best law student from Lagos State University (LASU) with 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on salary and sponsor her Law School programme.
The governor, who was represented at the ceremony by the Head of Service (HOS) Anthony Okungbowa Esq., said other benefits have been approved for the outstanding student.
According to him, “This is an update on our daughter, Aminat Yusuf after the Government of Edo State honoured her in respect of her academic performance in LASU for graduating with a perfect CGPA of 5.00.
“Following this achievement, the government offered her automatic employment and the governor has now approved other things for her beyond the employment.
“The governor has directed that Aminat Yusuf will be sponsored on scholarship for one year in the Nigerian Law School and that the government will be responsible for the provision of all her needs till she completes the programme.”
He added: “The governor also approved that for every month that she will be in law school, she will receive an up-keep allowance equivalent to the salary of a State Counsel, which is almost N200,000 naira.
“This is in recognition of the feat she achieved in LASU. We are proud of her achievement and hope she would join us after her law school programme as we will write to NYSC to ensure that she embarks on her one-year compulsory youth service in the State.”
Since her phenomenal academic record-breaking news broke encomiums and offers have continued to pour her way from various sources.
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, offered the record-setting First Class Law graduate an automatic employment.
Obaseki last week congratulated and praised Yusuf who hails from Edo State for emerging as the best ever graduate at LASU with a 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in the institution’s Law Degree Programme.
On Monday, the Edo Governor offered her an automatic employment into the state’s public service.
“I am honoured to offer our record-setting Miss Yusuf Aminat automatic employment in the state’s public service,” Obaseki tweeted.
“To complement our efforts to create the best work environment, we intend to attract and retain the best talent. Miss Aminat, we remain proud of you. The world is your oyster!.”
Obaseki thereafter spoke to newsmen at the Government House through the Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa Esq, saying “beyond merely congratulating her, we have offered automatic employment to her.
“Indeed, we have reached out to her parents and spoken with them, they have accepted our offer of employment. She has not done her law school program and her youth service.
“We are proposing to write to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) so that she will serve with us here in Edo State after her law school program so that we don’t run the risk of losing her.”
On efforts to engender a competitive workforce in the state, the governor said his administration is committed to improving the quality of human resource in the public service.
“We have set this as a priority and will get the best to work in the state. We have done everything within our power as a government to ensure that we create an enabling environment for work and as a result, we also want the best hands.
“We are creating the best work environment here so that the public service in Edo State can become attractive enough for the best talent from within and outside the state.
“We thank our dear young men and women who have excelled in their studies and we expect that more of them will achieve this feat.”
Obaseki had noted that apart from the offer of employment, Miss Yusuf will receive other forms of support as just reward for her sterling feat, stressing that she has indeed given a good account of herself and is a worthy ambassador of Edo state.
Miss Yusuf and her parents stopped over at the Government House to visit the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, who re-affirmed the governor’s position and offer of employment to the record-setting Yusuf.
Also, the Premium Times reported that Last week, the Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, rewarded her with a sum of N10 million at the 26th convocation ceremony of LASU at the Ojo-Iyana Iba area of the State.
Sanwo-Olu announced a personal donation of N5 million and another N5 million from the Lagos State government for Yusuf who set a 40-year-old record at LASU.
Her feat has not gone unnoticed as a Lagos monarch, the Oniba of Iba Kingdom, Oba Sulaimon Adeshina Raji gave her N2 million and promised her full sponsorship through Law School.
The Vice Chancellor of LASU, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, had also said last week that Yusuf will be rewarded with N500,000 cash prize.
