Edo Assembly Honours 15-year-old for Scoring 335 in Last UTME, Obtaining 8 A1 in WASSCE

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin-city

In order to encourage academic excellence, the Edo State House of Assembly yesterday honoured a 15-year-old Master Ovoita Gold Ajagun from Ososo in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area, who scored 335 in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and obtained eight A1s in the recently released West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Receiving Ajagun, who attended GloryLand Secondary School, Igarra, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, expressed delight in the results, stressing that the future of the state and the country is guaranteed with the academic excellence of the boy, and promised to give him a one-year scholarship.

In further appreciation, he was made a one-day Speaker and presided over a mock sitting of the state House of Assembly, where he called on the state government to increase budgetary allocation for the education sector to enable all children of school age to acquire basic and good education.

On his part, the member representing Akoko-Edo II, where Ajagun hails from, Donald Okogbe, awarded N1 million as a scholarship to him and also said the award would become an annual scheme for his constituents in the next four years when his first term would end.

Besides, he said Ajagun would undergo a three months of computer training before school resumption to prepare him for the next academic journey and called on good-spirited individuals to support Ajagun in the actualisation of his lifelong ambition of becoming a medical doctor.

The lawmaker, who chairs the Assembly Committee on Information, observed that with the magnanimity of the Speaker, the first two years of Ajagun in the university had been taken care of.

 Also, a popular fashion designer, Gini Couture promised to support the prodigy by replenishing Ajagun’s wardrobe.