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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Incredible! 24-Year-Old Unilag Student Bags Ph.D Degree

A new academic record was set in Africa on Wednesday when a 24-year-old student of the University of Lagos, Hallowed Olaoluwa, bagged a doctorate degree in Mathematics for the 2012/2013 session.
With a cumulative grade Point average of 5.0, Olaoluwa had the best Ph.D thesis, as well emerged the young­est African scholar, displacing Olabisi Adeyemi who had graduated from the same institution with 4.98 in 2012 at the age of 26, as well as Opeyemi Shodipe of Babcock university who graduated the same year at 25.

The award was conferred on him and other 104 students who had successfully completed their Doctor of Philosophy at the concluding convocation ceremony of the university, held at the Multi-purpose Hall.

Olaoluwa, an indigene of Ekiti State, was honoured in the presence of the former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Ju­lius Okojie, who represented the Visitor to the university, President Goodluck Jonathan, the Pro Chancellor of the university, Prof Jerry Gana, the former Vice Chancellor of UNILAG and Vice Chancellor of Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OS­USTECH), Prof Tolu Odug­bemi, among other dignitaries.

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