Education minister’s daughter shines at AUN graduation

Miss Hafsat Jalila Adamu, daughter of Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu, graduated Magna Cum Laude with a First Class degree in English Language at yesterday’s 10th commencement ceremony of the American University of Nigeria [AUN] in Yola. Miss Adamu entered the university in August 2014, a year before her father took charge of the education sector.

A total of 158 students graduated at the ceremony. While 136 of the graduates had first degrees, 22 bagged post graduate degrees. Miss Benedict Egwuchukwu, a student of Accounting, emerged as the Best Graduating Student with a cumulative grade point average of 3.98 on a scale 4 points. Among the graduating students was a South African, Hadebe Lereto who studied Economics.

AUN’s President Dr Dawn Dekle said at the ceremony that her desire is to lay the foundation for a sustainable university. She urged staff and students to share in the sustainability vision which required collective efforts and sacrifices, adding that achieving such feat was the best way to complement the efforts made by AUN’s founder, former vice president Atiku Abubakar.

“I believe our best way to show gratitude for this gift is to make AUN sustainable for generations of students to come. Our gift back to our Founder will be a sustainable AUN,” she said.

“Therefore, from this day forward, the day of my inauguration, I wish to be known as the Sustainability President. I understand the challenges involved, as sustainability will require approaches and ideas that are not in place today. It will require all of us to have an entrepreneurial and growth mindset.” Dr Dekle, who was inaugurated as AUN’s fourth substantive president since its inception, congratulated the graduating students for joining the university’s alumni. She called on them to be good ambassadors of the university.