14 ABU Best Graduating MBBS Students Receive Prizes at 2026 Sponsio Academica

Fourteen best graduating MBBS students of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, have received various prizes at this year's Sponsio Academica, where a total of 132 medical students were inducted as qualified medical doctors.

The recipients are the best graduating students in different fields of medical study.

Amirah Sulaiman emerged as the overall best graduating student, clinching five different prizes.  

She received the ABU College of Medical Sciences Prize as the overall best graduating student.  

Amirah also won the NMA Kaduna State Prize for Overall Best Graduating Student and the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Overall Best Graduating Student.  

She further received prizes as the best in Paediatrics, and in Surgery and Anatomy under the clinical sciences.

Lucky Apeh Junior received a total of three prizes. He clinched all three prizes under the basic medical sciences as the best in Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry.

Under the basic clinical sciences, three students received prizes in four medical fields.  

Kaltum Musa Machina received the prize as the best in Pathology.  

Aminu Alhassan Abdulkarim got two prizes as the best in Chemical Pathology and in Microbiology.  

Muhammad Shuaibu Aminu clinched the prize as the best graduating student in Hematology.

A Distinguished Leadership Award was also presented to the Class Representative, Sadiq-Abubakar Sani, and the Assistant Class Representative, Aisha Asila Ahmed.

The prizes and other awards were presented by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adamu Ahmed, and the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Prof. Fatima Kyari, who was represented by Tijjani Ali Mandaka.  

The Provost, ABU College of Medical Sciences, Prof. Dahiru Ismaila Lawal, assisted in presenting the prizes.

The well-attended occasion was graced by parents and guardians of the graduating medical students, including former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, whose granddaughter was among the new medical doctors.