Former Ekiti Dep.-Gov’s daughter emerges overall best student

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It was a joyous moment for family of former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Alhaji Sikirullai Lawal as his daughter, Ms Amina joined the league’s Barrister at Law

Ms Lawal was called to the Bar at the Nigeria Law School, on Thursday, in Abuja. She emerged as the overall Best graduating student among all the campuses of the Nigeria Law School.

TheNewsZenith reports that Ms Lawal graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2021 with First Class Honours. She then went on to the Nigerian Law School to replicate the same, emerging as the best-graduating student.

This feat is the third occurrence when the Premier university’s law graduate would emerge as best-graduating student in four years.

Recalls that before Amina, Mr Yusuf Asamu Olalere and Ms Bukola Fatimat Alada had emerged as the best-graduating students of the Nigerian Law School in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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“The Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, has shone again and proven its identity phrase “First and Best” is a deserving title”.

According to the Faculty of Law University of Ibadan’s publication “The Law Press Organisation”, the institution produced 27 First Class graduates, the highest in the 2021 academic year.

In the ongoing Call to Bar ceremonies held between March 5 and March 7 in Abuja, Lawal emerged as best-graduating student for the 2023 November Bar Finals Examination.

The elated father of Amina, Alhaji Lawal gave all glory and adoration to Almighty Allah for making it possible for his daughter, the last child of the family, to make the family proud by graduating as the best overall graduating student.

Many family friends and political associates of the former deputy government attended the ceremony to felicitate an astute Ekiti politician, whose daughter was called to bar.

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