Mr. Nurudeen Oyelami, a graduate of the University from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development (COLAMRUD), has been conferred with the Akwa-Ibom State honours award as the Most Outstanding Corps Member of the Year. 

Oyelami was called up for the Batch ‘B’ National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in August, 2014 in Akwa-Ibom State. Replicating the discipline instilled on him from FUNAAB, he said he was the first person to be registered in the Orientation Camp with the NYSC State Code, AK/14B/0001. Oyelami was later posted to the Community Comprehensive Secondary School, Ikot Eyo, a remote part of the state, where he participated actively in the Community Development Service (CDS) programme, by teaching people on better ways of farming, computer education and creation of awareness on HIV/AIDS across the community.

Other activities that brought Oyelami into the limelight of the State NYSC Management include the building of a concrete signpost for the school of his primary assignment, construction of volleyball court for nearby school and donation of textbooks to the school library through mobilisation of funds solicited from village heads and philanthropists in the community.