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State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Senate Majority
leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) and former Lagos State Deputy
Governor, Mrs Sarah Sosan and 46 other distinguished alumni of the
University of Lagos, Akoka were on Friday honoured by the University
with the “ Distinguished Alumni Award.”
Fiery Lagos Pastor and Vice Presidential candidate of the Congress
for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 presidential election, Pastor
Tunde Bakare; Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs Olufunso Amosun,
Minister of the Interior, Abba Moro; Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha; Inspector-General of Police, Mr. M.D
Mohammed; Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK, Alhaji Dalhatu Tafida;
Minister of Sport, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi and Minority leader in the
House of Reps, Femi Bajabiamila were also honoured at the event which
commemorated the 50th anniversary of the institution.
Others included Senator Gbenga Kaka, a Supreme Court Judge, Justice
Bode Rhodes-Vivour; former Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Enitan
Akande; National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr.
Ogbonnaya Onu; Group Managing Director of UBA, Phillips Oduoza; Chairman
of Lagos State Local Government Service Commission, Mr. Moshood Ojikutu
and Sola Ladipo-Ajayi.
Speaking at the award dinner which held at the University’s
multipurpose Hall, Governor Fayemi described the honour as one of the
“proudest moments of” his life; saying that he had a great time in the
University especially as a student activist.
Fayemi, said whereas the award was not the first he would receive, but that the UNILAG award remains the best for him.
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