Abibat Olayinka Owolabi, the
child of a plank seller at the Bodija Market in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital,
Mr. Aliu Owolabi, has emerged as overall best graduating Master’s Degree
student at the University of Ibadan.
Miss Owolabi graduated from the
Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences in the institution.
Abibat, a
25-year-old indigene of Ibadan recently had her traditional marriage ceremony.
Vice-Chancellor of the
university, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka announced yesterday in Ibadan, the
Oyo state capital during the convocation ceremonies of the university that
Owolabi graduated with a CGPA 7.0 to emerged as the overall graduating student
in the institution.
Olayinka stated that with Owolabi
making a perfect Cumulative Grade Point of 7.0, she is declared as the overall
best among the graduating candidates of Master’s degrees at this year’s
Convocation.
Owolabi is the third of five
children and the first to earn a Master’s Degree among the children of her
parents.
She equally lauded her parents,
Mr and Mrs Aliu Adisa Owolabi for their supports, pointing out that without
them, she could not have gone this far in life.
She attributed her success to her
creator, saying that if not God, she would not have made the grade.
According to her, though, life
was tough because her background was humble, all along, she put in her best in
whatever she did, stressing that hard work and faith in God were the secrets
behind her success in life.
“Growing up was difficult
considering my background. I am not from a rich home. My father and mother are
traders. My father, Mr Aliu Adisa Owolabi, sells planks at Bodija Market and my
mother, Mrs Kadijat Owolabi, sells foodstuff too. So, you can see that I am not
from a rich background.
“But I must tell you my parents
really supported me. At a point when they were getting tired, and there was no
money, my mentor, Professor Egunyomi Adeyemi, a retired professor came in. He
took up paying my school fees and helping me in other ways. Alhamdulillah, here
I am today, I give all praises to God.
“As for my career, I want to be a
researcher in my field. I prefer to be a researcher than to be a lecturer. But
that does not say that I cannot be a lecturer. The issue is that researcher
first and lecturing second”.
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