The overall best graduating trainee of Lagos State University (LASU) for the 2025/2026 academic session, Adebanjo Samuel Oluolamide, has actually been rewarded with a N10 million prize money for his exceptional academic performance.
Oluolamide, a graduate of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, became the university’s overall finest finishing trainee after tape-recording an excellent Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97 and graduating with First Class Honours.
The prize money existed to him by the Sunbeth Excellence Collaboration Programme (SEPP) throughout LASU’s 29th and 30th combined convocation ceremony hung on Monday at the Olatunji Bello Auditorium, Epe School.
The award acknowledges Oluolamide’s extraordinary scholastic efficiency and types part of SEPP’s efforts to promote academic excellence and motivate innovation amongst students of the university.
His accomplishment came as LASU commemorated countless graduands throughout the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions.
For the 2025/2026 session alone, Oluolamide emerged ahead of other high-performing trainees to claim the overall best finishing student position with his 4.97 CGPA.
The university had actually earlier disclosed that 8,653 trainees finished from its first-degree programs throughout the 2025/2026 scholastic session, with 232 students accomplishing Very first Class Honours.
Oluolamide’s recognition and the N10 million prize have actually further highlighted the importance of scholastic quality and the function of institutional and business collaborations in satisfying outstanding trainees.
The advancement is likewise anticipated to act as a motivation to other trainees to pursue scholastic excellence, innovation and personal development.
LASU’s combined convocation ceremonies, which commenced on August 17, will include the conferment of first degrees, postgraduate diplomas, master’s degrees and postgraduate degrees on deserving graduands from the 2 scholastic sessions.
The university is likewise acknowledging distinguished personalities with honorary doctorate degrees as part of activities marking the combined convocation.
Background
Lagos State University is one of Nigeria’s leading public universities and has actually continued to expand its scholastic programmes and research study efforts. For the 2025/2026 scholastic session, the organization tape-recorded more than 8,600 first-degree graduands, while 232 trainees finished with First Class Honours.
The university has actually likewise continued to attract substantial interest from potential students, receiving more than 84,000 first-choice applications in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Admission Assessment, according to the institution.