Recently updated on June 23rd, 2020 at 09:29 am
Sergeant Jamilu Hassan of the Nigerian Army, has emerged the best student of Bachelor of Information Technology at the International University of East Africa (IUEA), Kampala, Uganda with a First Class degree after scoring 4.97/5.00 CGPA.
Sergeant Jamilu Hassan was born in 1985 and attended Kamara Primary School Gombe from 1990 to 1996 before proceeding to Army Day Secondary School, Bukavo Barracks, Kano from 1998 to 2004.
He enlisted into the Nigerian Army on February 28, 2005 as a member of 56 Regular Recruit Intake and was posted to the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police where he was trained as a criminal investigator.
The Chairman of the association (Informatics Students), Malam Goni Isah commended the excellent performance of Hassan, stating:
“We know what Hassan can do as an IT student. He is a good programmer, especially in Web Development.
We have been participating in different projects together. Hassan is one of the best students at informatics in his time. The sky is your limit my brother. Keep it up.”
According to him, Hassan’s academic excellence is worthy of emulation by his colleagues in the Nigerian army and the youth across the country.
Malam Isah also commended the Nigerian Army for allowing Jamilu Hassan to pursue his academic career abroad, adding that such opportunities should continue to be extended to other soldiers, particularly the junior officers.
According to him, this will enable them achieve academic excellence in various fields of human endeavours.
He pledged that the association would continue to honuor its members, who excel so as to encourage others to pursue academic excellence within and outside the country.
Mr. Okopa Micheal, the Director Quality Assurance and Acting Academic Registrar of IUEA, described Hassan as “a focused and hard working student and with this performance, the sky is his limit’”.
A colleague of Hassan, Oguntuase Ojo said, “I am not surprised because I know you are an Information Technology Guru. Keep it up.”
