Does this remind of the movie called
the ‘The First Grader’ a true story of Kimani Maruge a Kenyan man who enrolled in elementary
education at the age of 84 when the Kenyan government announced universal and free
elementary education in 2003?
Oh well,we have to celebrate our very own Pa Alimi Olarenwaju Amodu who Graduated from the university, he received his Second Class Honours degree in
Sociology from the Lagos State University, yesterday.
We learnt never failed any course during
his undergraduate days and was popularly known as “Youngest Student” and “Baba
Bookwarm” amongst other students. And here is his story:
It was by God’s grace that I graduated from
LASU without having to re-sit for any carry-over course.
Although during my undergraduate days, I faced a lot of challenging moments like having to wake up very early to catch a bus to school. What really helped me to succeed throughout was that I had from the foundation learned from my mother to wake up as early as 3.00 a.m.
I usually read from 3.00 a.m. to 6.00 a.m to constantly update my scope of knowledge, and I thank God who saw me through to this point.”
On how he felt sitting together to receive lectures with students who are young enough to be his grand children, he said:
“That’s very good. It was a stiff competition between me and them. When you are competing with young students, there’s no age consideration.
I have to always struggle to sit at the front in class. Another point is that the lecturers address everyone as equal in the university.”
Sharing his most memorable moment on campus, he recalled the incident that occurred in class sometime ago, when he dozed off during a lecture.
“That day, my lecturer caught me dozing in class. He said to me: ‘Baba you are sleeping’ and I said, ‘No sir, I wasn’t sleeping.”
So he said: ‘If you weren’t sleeping, what did I say last?” I couldn’t answer. He asked me what I ate before coming to school, and I told him I ate rice.
Then he advised me not to take heavy meals before coming to school , but just a cup of tea and some slices of bread. “The funniest thing is that I was disciplined by standing up till the end of the lecture.”
Source: Vanguard.
Amazing news!It shows the power of determination.
7 comments:
His children must be very proud
Its never too late to learn! Lol!
Ki ni big deal,he is 80yrs many yrs has he got left on earth, besides what is he going to use d qualifications4 anyways
Bcot I can see u are a fool and u are myopic,brainless,ambitionless&no focus,whether u are a boy or a man I dont care even if u r old enough to be my father, what kind of statement is that for man who is an inspiration to all, he had a dream and filled it & u are here talking like u are in a beer parlour with usless self&friends making fun of a role model 2 d youths
I understand where Bcot is coming from, just maybe he is one of those unemployed youth who has not gotten job after graduation so he he is venting his frustration on d old man
Then he shld vent it on himself not somebody else, these are d kind of people that will pour san san4 ur garri bc its not working4 them,congratulations Sir, jare!
Congratulations sir,im inspired, i'll try to enroll 4my MBA i've been postponeding 4yrs
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