Covenant University Alumni Association (CUALA) has given cash awards worth N2.6 million to exceptional graduating students of Covenant University in 20 categories.
The award categories featured academic and non-academic awards, including best graduating students across several courses and leadership, entrepreneurship, community service, social action, and more.
Some of the award recipients include Teniola Morinsola Faith and Ododo Moses Elijah who won N1,150,000 and N300,000 respectively. Faith won three academic awards as the best graduating student (overall) in Accounting, best graduating student in Accounting (female) and best graduating student in the College of Management and Social Sciences.
Elijah, who won an academic award as the best graduating student (male) in Accounting and two non-academic awards for leadership and social action/development, expressed how thrilled he was to join the alumni association and said he was grateful to the award sponsors and for the motivation to do more.
Speaking about the awards, Kemi Onabanjo-Joseph, CUALA President, said: “The annual CUALA Alumni Awards are an opportunity to give back to our alma mater and reward academic and non-academic excellence in the graduating class. It is also a platform to inspire current students to strive to be better. We are so delighted to have had the highest volume and value of awards so far and look forward to doubling those numbers next year.
The Student Council Chairman, Victor Egbadon, thanked the alumni association on behalf of the 18th graduating set of the university for the awards.
Onabanjo-Joseph also expressed gratitude to members of the alumni association for their support and for sponsoring the awards.
She called on organisations to offer non-cash rewards such as job/internship opportunities, business grants, and more to the graduating students.