The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Benin, Edo State, Prof. Lilian Salami, has disclosed that she is supporting the higher institution’s Faculty of Law’s academic excellence and special recognition awards to outstanding students and world-class heroes and friends of the faculty, so as to serve as incentives to the recipients, and motivate others.
She also assured in her remarks that her administration remained committed to worthy objectives, such as that of UNIBEN’s faculty of law.
Salami, who chaired the event yesterday, and was represented by UNIBEN’s Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Omoruyi Osunde, at the colourful event that was also attended by the Chairman of the Alumni Association of the Federal Government-owned university, Osahon Eghosa, spoke at UNIBEN’s Faculty of Law’s second edition of Academic Excellence/Recognition Awards for many outstanding students, alumni, and a friend of the iconic faculty, while describing the event as a step in the right direction.
The awardees included the best three students in the faculty of law of UNIBEN, from 100 level to 500 level, who received certificates of recognition, various cash awards, and wigs and gowns that were donated by Olayiwola Afolabi, SAN; as well as the faculty’s law heroes, who were recognised for their immense contributions to the advancement and development of their faculty.
The law heroes consisted of five exceptional alumni of UNIBEN’s Faculty of Law: Prince Richard Ahonaruogho, SAN, a past President of the university’s Alumni Association Worldwide, who is also a former member of the higher institution’s (UNIBEN’s) Governing Council; a former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN; and these legal practitioners: Dr. Kemi Pinheiro, SAN; Chief Charles Edosomwan, SAN; and Dr. Adefunmilayo Ayo-Odugbesan; as well as UNIBEN’s law class of 1991.
Award of special recognition was also presented to a friend of UNIBEN’s Faculty of Law, Olayiwola Afolabi, SAN, a Benin-based eminent lawyer and philanthropist, who studied law at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, and hails from Ekiti State, who presented many wigs and gowns to numerous most-brilliant students of the faculty, and he twice spiced up the well-attended occasion with special renditions by his Christian choral group.
