Education

UNILORIN student bags Mwape Peer Awards in U.S.

A 500-level student of the Department of Combined Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Dauda Gidado, has won a Mwape Peer Diplomatic Excellence Award in New Jersey, United States.

This was made known via a bulletin issued by the university on Monday.

The university noted that a letter conveying the award was signed by the Executive Director, Mwape Peer Awards, James Mwape, adding that the Diplomatic Excellence Award was in recognition of Gidado’s work in ending global education crisis.

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It stated that the new honour made it 14 in total that Gidado had won in his career.

Others are the ECOWAS Youth Ambassador, 2022; Nelson Mandela Leadership Award of Excellence and Integrity by ECOWAS Youth Council, 2022.

Gidado also won the Social Personality of the Year 2022 by LAWSAN North Central and the Senior Activist of Human Rights Chambers (SAHRC) 2022, among other awards.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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