L-R: Managing Director of Rite Foods, Saleem Adegunwa; top matriculant, Okeke Christian studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lagos; Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, at the maiden Rite Foods National Academic Excellence Awards held on Tuesday, at Civic Centre, Lagos. Credit: Wale Akinselure
Undergraduate students of Medicine and Surgery and Software Engineering dominated the maiden Rite Foods National Academic Excellence Awards on Tuesday, claiming six of the seven top honours and sharing N35m in prizes.
The award ceremony, held at the Civic Centre, Lagos, was organised by Rite Foods in partnership with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to recognise the best-performing matriculating students from the 2025 admission exercise across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones.
The seven awardees, comprising one student from each geopolitical zone and one student in the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group for Persons with Disabilities, emerged after an aggregate assessment of their performance in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Senior School Certificate Examination, and post-UTME or other institutional screening exercises.
The beneficiaries are Orzekor Godwin (Software Engineering), Federal University of Technology, Minna; Vincent Daniel (Medicine and Surgery), University of Maiduguri; Luka Miendwas (Software Engineering), Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia; Joshua Chidiebere (Software Engineering), Federal University of Technology, Owerri; James Victor (Medicine and Surgery), University of Uyo; Okeke Christian (Mechanical Engineering), University of Lagos; and Ogunsua-Dixon Tijesuni (Mass Communication), University of Lagos.
