Lady shares letter notifying Ekiti State University best student of N100 cash gift, Nigerians react

Academic excellence has little or no cash prize attached to it in Nigeria. It does not also mean automatic employment.

Many Nigerians have been crying out over the trend of reality stars being given millions of naira gift by organisers of the shows in conjunction with corporate organisation while students with academic excellence gets ridiculous amount of money for their brilliancy.

A similar scenario been played out again when the best graduating student of department of civil engineering from Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, is awarded a cash gift of N100 only. For emphasis and clarification, the cash gift amount was also spelt out in words, one hundred naira only.

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The absurd amount was awarded to Bamisaye Tosin Tope and the letter informing the awardee of the 'precious' cash prize is from the office of the registrar of EKSU.

See the letter below:

Many Nigerians could not hide their anger at such a paltry sum of cash gift for brilliancy. See their tweets below:

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Legit.ng reported that the 2019 edition of the Big Brother Naija has started and the reality show will run for 99 uninterrupted days after which a winner who will go home with N60 million worth of prize will eventually emerge.

There 21 housemates all together at the beginning of the show.

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Source: Legit.ng