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Nigerian tops Russian medical varsity exams with 5.0 CGPA

By Kanayo Umeh, Abuja
30 July 2015   |   6:12 am
Following his outstanding performance at the Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, a Nigerian student, Dr. Olalusi Oladotun Victor, has been recommended to the Presidency for National Merit award as Ambassador of Academia. According to the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwabioala, the 27-year old indigene of Ondo State, Olalusi, graduated from…
Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala

Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala

Following his outstanding performance at the Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, a Nigerian student, Dr. Olalusi Oladotun Victor, has been recommended to the Presidency for National Merit award as Ambassador of Academia.

According to the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwabioala, the 27-year old indigene of Ondo State, Olalusi, graduated from the Russian University in 2013 as the best student with a CGPA of 5.0 out of a possible 5.0, bagging a Doctor of Medicine with Honours.

He disclosed that the Olalusi who got a Federal Government scholarship award to study in Russia under the aegis of the Russian-Nigerian Bilaterial Education Agreement (BEA) in 2006 has made the nation proud and deserves to be given a national merit award.

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