Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik Emerges As Overall Best Student During 2025 KNUST White Coat Ceremony
- Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik was adjudged the overall best student during the 2025 KNUST Pharmacy White Coat Ceremony
- He also received an award for the best student in Pharmaceutics during the same ceremony to the admiration of many
- Social media users who saw the post congratulated him and wished him well in his future endeavours
A young man at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has achieved great success in his academic journey.
Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik is a fifth-year Pharmacy student at the KNUST and an alumnus of Kadjebi Asato SHS.
Source: Twitter
In a post on X, @Thevoklive stated that Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik received two out of the six awards that were given during the 2025 KNUST White Coat Ceremony.
Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik received the best in Pharmaceutics and the overall best student.
In his bio on X, Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik described himself as a MasterCard foundation scholar, student pharmacist, student leader, an ambitious village boy and a Barcelona FC supporter.
Meanwhile, the other two awards were received by George Oduro who swept three of the prizes and Delali Akusika Dotse, got one of them.
George Oduro an old student of St Peter’s SHS was adjudged the best student in Pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Pharmacology.
Meanwhile, Delali Akusika Dotse was awarded the best in Pharmacy Practice at the ninth White Coat Ceremony.
According to the Ghana Pharmaceutical Students' Association, KNUST, this is the first time deserving students in each department were awarded during a White Coat ceremony. This ceremony was the ninth since its inception in the university.
In a post on X, it stated:
“Introducing a new tradition: special recognition awards for outstanding students in each department and the overall top performer in Rx26.”
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The white coat ceremony is a ritual in some schools of medicine and other health-related fields that marks the student's transition from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences.
Netizens congratulate the overall best student
Social media users who saw the post congratulated Mbeinba Yahaya Mubarik on his academic achievement.
YEN.com.gh collated some reactions to the post shared @Thevoklive on X. Read them below:
@bhadext said:
“Yahaya🔥🔥🔥🔥.”
@og_ernesto wrote:
“That’s nice. Charles Dziwornu Kwaku Galley.”
@kwaku_galley said:
“Congratulations.”
@AnkamahKojo wrote:
“Proud moment my brother 💫🙏.”
@nambu_michael said:
“Congratulations brother 🥳🎈We’re proud of you.”
@KejetiaMole wrote:
“Congratulations 🎊🍾.”
@AgamakuRockson said:
“Yahaya, so proud of you.”
@bhadext wrote:
"You all meet my gee Yahaya Mubarik Mbeinba (@mbeinba), a very brilliant young man and a product of Kadjebi - Asato Secondary School(Kasec 2019) who won 2 prestigious awards at the Doctor of Pharmacy white coat event at the KNUST, Great Hall. Best student in Pharmaceutics✅ OVERALL BEST STUDENT 🏆✅Big congratulations to you Yahaya!!🥳🥳Solid guy!"
UCC Congregation: Prempeh College alumnus receives award
In another publication, YEN.com.gh reported that an old student of Prempeh College in the Ashanti Region received an award from the University of Cape Coast's (UCC) School of Medical Sciences.
Dr Theophilus Tetteh, who first attended KNUST before studying at UCC was adjudged the best student in family medicine.
His achievement was shared on the official page of the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences Student Association.
Several netizens thronged to the comment section to congratulate him for his academic feat and wished him well.
Proofread by Samuel Gitonga, Copy Editor at YEN.com.gh
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