The exceptionally brilliant Ernest Chukwuma was the centre of attraction during the sixth induction ceremony of the 161 newly qualified medical doctors of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), held on February 9, where he emerged as the Best Graduating Medical Student.

Apart from emerging the overall best graduating medical student, Chukwuma recorded five distinctions in medical specialties: anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, integrated medical courses and pathology.

His road to stardom started in 2019, midway into his MBBS programme, when he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, D. Sc. and bagged a fellowship of the International Agency for Standards and Ratings for winning the 2019 Global Championship Award in Science through his research article titled “Theory of Photon Quanta” which was rated the best among 5,547 nominations and 87 screened for the 2019 World Championship in Science.

It was published in the Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: A Physics and Space Science Journal.

The Annual World Championship in Science Award is organised by the International Agency for Standards and Ratings for the Best Thesis and Dissertation Award, Doctoral Research Award and Milestone International Research Articles among brilliant Scientists and Academics around the world.

Chuckwuma’s award was announced thus: “…Your research article is the winner among 5,547 nominations from 87 screened for the World Championship 2019 in Science…The World Championship 2019 has international validity…The purpose of the award is to identify brilliant scientists and academicians around the world.”

Some of the previous winners of the championship include Dr. Xiaohui Song from the United States of America who was conferred with the World Championship in Material Science (Engineering Science) (2017) and Dr. Hiroshi Bando from Japan who was conferred in Endocrinology and Metabolism (2017), Dr. Ingo Schmidt from Germany, in Rheumatology (Metacarpophalangeal joints) 2018, Dr. Yasin Idweini from Jordan, in Urology (Electocoagulation) (2018) and Dr. Kenichi Meguro from Japan, in Geriatric Behavioral Neurology (2018).

According to the academic wizkid, his milestone achievement at a tender age in 2019 was fired by his great admiration for Albert Einstein, the great German physicist of all times who developed the theory of relativity, who he has been trying to emulate.


Said Chukwuma: “I had watched a movie about Albert Einstein, the great German Physicist, who invented the Einstein refrigerator. How he wanted his voice to be heard in his chosen field and how his voice was eventually heard. I too, want my voice to be heard. With these awards, my voice is being heard, but this is just the beginning. I believe that by the grace of God and of course more hard work, many awards are still on the way.”

Chukwuma who confessed after winning the award in 2019 that his best subject was Physics even though he was a medical student, recalled that the journey to stardom started from a question he asked in a Physics class but to which nobody could provide an answer. This got him thinking about how to get an answer and eventually, he got an answer to the riddle.

In his remarks, ABUAD founder and Chancellor, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, congratulated the Inductees for coming out in flying colours, stressing that their induction should not be seen as the end, but as the take-off points for them to attain greatness in their career, particularly as the world is expecting quality service from them.


His words: “I personally expect you to go higher academically and professionally. Never give up, dream high. Remember that it is not a crime to dream big, but it is a sin not to dream high. Your induction today should not be seen as the end, but the take-off points for you to attain greatness in your career”.

He added: “I am not unaware that the country is going through a difficult time having regard to insecurity, corruption, scarcity of money, fuel scarcity, unemployment, poor infrastructure, high rate of inflation, very poor foreign exchange rate, huge debt burden and the “japa” syndrome. I advise you not to be discouraged. Problems are bound to come. The world is a world of problems. It is only those who have the courage to confront these problems frontally and overcome them that are successful in life. You already have imbibed the culture of this university, therefore, you are already sufficiently armed to confront and overcome these problems”.

To the parents and guardians, he thanked them for choosing ABUAD for the education of their children/wards, a university with predictable academic calendar, a university devoid of strike actions and a university with its own Independent Power Plan (IPP), the only University with residential education among other distinguishing factors that stand ABUAD out.

He appealed to the parents not to lose control of their children/wards even though they are now Medical Doctors, adding that they should continue to monitor and mentor them so that they will continually appreciate the virtues of kindness, love, maturity and selflessness which the university has inculcated in them over the years.

He enjoined the parents and Nigerian leaders to emulate the virtues of appreciation, selflessness, and kindness in the developed countries where altruistic parents and Government institutions award scholarships, donate buildings, hostels and cash, institute professorial chairs in such universities in such world-class universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford among others.

He recalled, for example, that what the Alumni Association of Stanford University in the United States donate to the university annually is more than Nigeria’s annual budget for education and wondered why neither the 11,334 graduates including 619 Medical Doctors the university has produced since its maiden convocation on Sunday, October 21, 2013, nor their parents had thought it fit to contribute in any way to the university.

He told the inductees that the university will soon put up a museum that will contain, among other things, a hall of fame where the names of students and their sets will be emblazoned. In addition, the hall will contain the names of those who distinguished themselves in their callings and those who contribute to their alma mater.

Wishing them well in their career, Babalola said he is looking forward to seeing the names of many of them in that Hall of Fame in the nearest future, in addition to picking the baton of the Nobel Prize from where Prof. Wole Soyinka left it in 1986.

Commenting on his latest feat of emerging the best graduating student out of the newly inducted 161 brand-new medical doctors, Chukwuma had this to say: “I am very happy. Words are not enough to express my delight following my emergence as the best graduating student. I thank God Almighty for making this possible. I’m grateful to the university for finding me worthy to receive this award.”

He added: “I’m also grateful to the university for shaping me to be the man I am today. I am especially grateful to the founder, Aare Afe Babalola. He has been a great source of inspiration and drive for me. I thank my wonderful friends and family for their incredible support along the way.”

Chukwuma thanked the founder for establishing a world-class university, populated with tested and experienced teachers and for providing an enabling environment, including the setting up the Club of Geniuses to which he (Chukwuma) belonged, a Club where young men and women can are given the latitude to express themselves towards the manifestation of their talents in every area of human endeavour.

Olofintila, ABUAD’s Director of Corporate Affairs, writes in from Ado-Ekiti


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This is a great news indeed!

May he continue to wax stronger academically and win more laurels for self and country.

On why alumni don't contribute to their alma mater, I can deduce that the cost of passing through your institution is so prohibitive that the parents and students spend the better part of their post graduation waiting for the ROI.

Front page abeg.

The guy has to be exceptional to be versed in both physical sciences and medicine

Receiving an honorary D.Sc without a P.hd is a feat of gargantuan proportion. I wonder whether the Nigerian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Government are talking to him. The developed world might be on cue to have him.

Attach his picture, proud of you boy

Congratulations to him...





Na people wey get brain like this we supposed dey celebrate and even make leaders but unfortunately, the Tinubu in an average Nigerian will not let them think straight