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How Life Unfolds Is Often a Mystery: My Journey Is One Such Example

Posted by: Benjamin Onuorah

Written by: Dr. Usman-oladipo Akanbi

One day I met Dele Ogunbode, my classmate at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin at the Unilorin MBA School located along Offa Road, within the Ilorin GRA. We got talking on various issues and he particularly lamented the meagre salary he received as a lecturer at the University of Ilorin, comparing it to what I might be earning as a banker.

I replied that my salary was no better. He then asked why I did not take up lecturing as well, but I claimed I was not sound enough, having graduated with a Second Class Lower degree. He observed that, given my level of activism on campus — Faculty President, Students' Union President and so forth — I was far from being a dull student; it was simply that I hardly sat down to take academics seriously. That I had graduated in the same year as them without any hitch, he argued, was indicative of my genius.

I responded that if I had possessed the patience he had, perhaps I could have settled better in academia and emerged with a better grade. He insisted it was not too late, that I could make up for it with a postgraduate degree, for inherent in me was a strong capacity.

Was I convinced? No. I even considered myself fortunate to have led the pack in securing employment with First Bank of Nigeria Plc in 1995, having scored 8 out of 10 (being the only applicant under the northern regional administration of the bank who scored in the multiple-choice test and coming top with 84 per cent in the interview that was conducted.

The interviewers could not hide their admiration for me and wondered aloud how I could have graduated from the University of Ilorin with ...[Continue Reading]



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