Saidat Alausa

Three students of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State made waves in Johannesburg, South Africa during the final of African Unilever Idea Competition. They are Ayobami Kalesanwo and Oluwaferanmi Muraina, both in 500-level Electrical Engineering and Mr. Oluwapelumi Kolade, 500-level Civil Engineering.

As part of efforts to improve standard of education in Ogun State, especially in the communities where it operates, Lafarge Africa has awarded a total of N20.4 million bursaries to 204 undergraduates and distributed thousands of educational materials such as text and note books, pens, mathematical sets and desktops computers to schools in the state.

Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Education, Aminu Sulaiman, has commended the management of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos for its foresight and “sensitivity on the need to protect lives and property at all times.” Sulaiman, who was on a fact-finding mission to the college on the recent fire accident on a wing of the Bakassi Girls Hostel said, “It is good we sacrificed time to come. The impression given by petition writers was a far cry from what we met on ground.