In spite of her father’s death a few weeks to her West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and having to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination twice, 24 year-old Oyewole Olubunmi, emerged the best graduating student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, SEGUN OLUGBILE reports
The story of the best graduating student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Miss Oyewole Olubunmi, is a study in resilience and perseverance. Though her university education ended on a high note at a well-attended convocation organised for the 1, 355 graduates of FUNAAB on Saturday, her journey to academic stardom was strewn with thorns. With a banker father, Oyewole was enrolled in a highbrow private primary school in Lagos.
But she only spent three years in the school when her father, Prince Adeyinka Oyewole-Kusamotu, lost his job at the defunct Savannah Bank. The family finance was in disarray. Things became so bad that her parents decided to withdraw her from the school and enrolled her in a public school. But because she was a brilliant pupil, the school proprietor intervened and gave her a 50 per cent reduction in tuition. Her family struggled to keep her in school until she completed her primary school education at St. Jude’s School, Lagos.
However, when her classmates were seeking admission to good private secondary schools, the parents just took her to Festac Girl’s Secondary School, a public school in Lagos. This did not deter the Ikirun, Osun State born lady. She gave it her all, determined to make her parents proud. But tragedy struck again as his father died a few weeks to her West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. She was devastated. However, in spite of the setback, the grieving girl sat for her examination.
When the result was released, she cleared all her papers. She had B3 in English Language; A1 in Mathematic; A3 in Biology; C4 in Chemistry; B2 in Physics; A1 in Geography; A1 in Commerce; B3 in Economics; and B2 in Government B2 . That was in 2004.
She got admission to FUNAAB in 2006 to study Pasture and Range Management after scoring 274 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination of the same year. With a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.82 out of a possible 5.0, she was crowned the best graduating student for the 2010/2011 at the graduation ceremony.
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