6 UNILAG Estate Management Students Secure Automatic Job Offers, ₦1m Scholarship Package

In a major boost for industry-academia collaboration, six final-year students from the Department of Estate Management at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have secured automatic employment offers from top-tier real estate firm, Jide Taiwo & Co. The company also unveiled a ₦1,000,000 scholarship and rewards fund targeted at celebrating academic excellence and supporting emerging professionals in the built environment.

The career-launching announcements were made by ESV Bashir Tajudeen, the company's Regional Manager for Lagos Island, during the 2026 UNILAG Estate Management Career Day and Job Fair held over the weekend at the Akoka campus. Tajudeen explained that the direct intervention forms a core part of the firm's corporate commitment to bridging the persistent gap between university training and real-world real estate practice. The newly announced ₦1 million financial package is structurally mapped to reward the overall best graduating student as well as the top-performing female graduating student within the department.

Transitioning from Classroom to Boardroom

The career fair focused heavily on practical expectations within the modern real estate sector, laying out explicit guidelines for student career development:

• Beyond Certification: Delivering the opening remarks, the Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prof. Olumide Adenuga, emphasized that modern education must transcend mere paper certificates. He noted that the true metric of success is a graduate's deliberate preparation and ability to apply specialized knowledge hours to solve real-world industry problems.
• The Industry Standard: In a presentation titled "Classroom to Boardroom: Mapping Your Career Path in the Built Sector," the General Manager of Facilities Management at Jide Taiwo & Co., ESV Adebiyi Ayeni, reminded the students that the corporate market moves significantly faster than textbook theories. He stressed that sustainable professional growth rewards baseline attributes that the classroom alone cannot fully simulate, specifically pointing to long-term professional adaptability, absolute integrity, and technical focus.
• Academic Commendation: The Head of the Department of Estate Management, Prof. Hikmot Koleosho, lauded the corporate delegation for actively investing in the university's human capital. She urged the remaining undergraduates to maximize the networking touchpoint to align their ongoing research with active estate surveying and valuation trends.