Fourteen MBBS best graduating students of Ahmadu Bello University have received various prizes at this year’s Sponsio Academica where a total of 132 medical students were inducted as qualified medical doctors.
The recipients of the various prizes are the best graduating students in different medical fields of study.
Amirah Sulaiman is the overall best graduating student, clinching five different prizes.
She received the prize of the ABU College of Medical Sciences as the overall best graduating student.
Amirah also won the NMA Kaduna State Prize for Overall Best Graduating Student and Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Overall Best Graduating Student.
The young female medical graduate also received prizes as the best in paediatrics as well as in surgery and anatomy under the clinical sciences.
Lucky Apeh Junior received a total of three prizes. He clinched all three prizes under the basic medical sciences.
Apeh is the best in human anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry.
Under basic clinical sciences three students received prizes in four medical fields.
Kaltum Musa Machina received as the best in pathology; and Aminu Alhassan Abdulkarim got two prizes as the best in chemical pathology and in microbiology.
Muhammad Shuaibu Aminu clinched the prize as the best graduating student in hematology.
Hajara Usman received a prize as the female student in pharmacology, just as Favour Demilade Adenuga was awarded the prize as the best in community medicine (CA).
Other best graduating students who got the prizes are Khalid Yusuf Bashir in pharmacology; Hafsat Sulaiman, community medicine (project); and Goodnews Johnson Ukpong, community medicine.
They also include Aishat Adebusayo Adedeji as the best in medicine and Mercy Damilola Igbadun as best graduating student in O&G.
A Distinguished Leadership Award was given to the Class Rep, Sadiq-Abubakar Sani and the Assistant Class Rep, Aisha Asila Ahmed.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Adamu Ahmed, and the Registrar, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Prof Fatima Kyari presented the prizes and other awards.
Prof Kyari was ably represented by Tijjani Ali Mandaka at the occasion.
The Provost, ABU College of Medical Sciences, Prof Dahiru Ismaila Lawal, assisted in presenting the prizes.
The well attended occasion was graced by parents and guardians of the graduating medical students, including the former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Prof Ango Abdullahi, whose granddaughter was among the new medical doctors.
