From an average pupil to the best graduating student of the Osun
State University, Osogbo, Rasheed Oladipupo steals the show at the
institution’s third convocation.
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Poor little Rasheed. As a primary school pupil, no matter how well he thought he performed, his mum would still scold or at times beat him.
The fact is that Alhaja Kuburat Oladipupo
believed that even if Rasheed, her only male child, got 70 per cent in a
subject, he could have got up to 90 if he had worked harder. Such was
the extent of the iron hand with which the woman handled the child, who, at the time, seemed destined to be an average pupil.
But that disposition has borne fruits.
Rasheed, that weeping boy of some 15 years ago, has turned out to be an
academic star. This became evident on Saturday when he emerged the
overall best graduating student of the University of Osun, Osogbo.
By scoring the Cumulative Grade Point Average
of 4.73, he did not only come top in the Economics Department and
Faculty of Social Sciences, he also bagged the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize
for the Most Outstanding Student of the Year in Humanities; and the
Chancellor’s Prize for the Most Outstanding Student of the Year.
As a result, the 22-year-old native of
Omuaran, Kwara State, was widely celebrated at the event that drew
guests from different parts of the country to the Osun State capital.
In an interview with newsmen,
Oladipupo, understandably, says he is very happy to emerge a big winner.
According to him, when he first found out that his CGPA was 4.73, he
exercised a little restraint in his excitement because he felt there
could be higher flyers from other faculties. Noting that he has always
aimed to be the best, he practically gives the victory to his mother
who, he says, pushed him to the apex of his intellectual endowment.
“My mother has two children,’ he
enthuses. “I am the second child, but she trained me as if I was the
first born. She trained me as if I was not her child. Because I am her
only son, she did not want to spoil me. Each time I brought home my
result, she would still beat me and insist I could do more.”
Oladipupo became more puzzled when his mum took him to a boarding house for his secondary education
at Methodist Boys High School, Victoria Island, Lagos. He wondered how a
woman would throw her only son into such a ‘lonely’ place. But the
essence of the mother’s ‘wickedness’ began to dawn on him eventually.
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