Baze University, a private institution in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, has announced a $20,000 prize for Farid Hammayo, its best graduating student.
Mr Hammayo, 21, graduated with a 3.96 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on a 4.0 scale to bag a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Economics.
The Chancellor of the university, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, announced the prize at the university’s 11th convocation during the weekend.
Mr Baba-Ahmed also announced prizes for the two best-graduating students at the postgraduate school –Susan Obasi (MSc Management) and Adeola Ayoola (M.Eng Civil Engineering). Both students completed their master’s degrees with a perfect 5.0 CGPA.
“For postgraduates, I think the best I can do is to offer them either a full tuition-free PhD opportunity in Baze or a job opportunity in Baze (university),” he said.
The university graduated 749 students, including 30 who graduated with First Class. It also awarded a posthumous honourary degree to the late Wazirin Dutse, Mukhtar Muhammad, an Air Vice Marshal. The late Mr Muhammad was a former Military Governor of old Kaduna State and a member of the Supreme Military Council from 1984-85. He died in October 2017 at the age of 73.
