From Seminary to UNIOSUN best grad- the story Dotun Oladipo

By Obinna Odenigbo

Dotun Oladipo

Cruise Nigeria has learnt that 26-year-old Dotun Oladipo emerged the best graduating student after obtaining a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.90 out of a possible 5.0 to bag a first class degree in Economics. He also won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for the Most Outstanding Student of the Year, the Chancellor’s Award, the Best Graduating Student in the College of Management and Social Sciences and the Most Outstanding Student in the Department of Economics.

For his efforts, he was offered automatic employment at the institution. Also, the remaining 18 graduating students who also bagged first class degrees were awarded scholarships for their postgraduate studies in universities of their choices provided they desire to pick up careers in academics.

But his path to academic success was not without challenges. Though he completed his secondary school in 2003 and obtained seven distinctions and one credit pass, he could not secure admission to university until 2008. Frustrated by this, Oladipo went to a seminary in Ilesa after he convinced himself that he was probably not cut out for a career in academics. But luck smiled on him in 2008 when he was offered admission to UNIOSUN for a degree programme in Economics.

Source: www.punchng.com