ACHIEVEMENT: Oludayo Breaks Rank, Becomes Registrar At 32
In an environment where the educational system does not permit pupils
to graduate as at when due, mostly as a result of incessant strikes,
some people such as Olumuyiwa Oludayo has not only graduated as at
when due but has quickly moved up the ladder of success as the
youngest registrar in Africa, at age 32. He would have been the
youngest in the world but the record was first made by a man from
Australia who was registrar at 35 years old, and another American lady
who first became registrar at age 24 in the 18century.
His journey to achieving such height at this young age didn't just
happen and contrary to what many would imagine, he wrote JAMB five
times before entering the Covenant University as a pioneer student in
2002. He narrates his journey to one of the highest offices in the
academic sector in this interview with Florence Utor.
Can you tell me how your journey to becoming the registrar of the
Covenant University began?
I got admission as a pioneer student in 2002 at the Covenant
University and like any other university that would want a student
body, I was appointed the first student council chairman of the
Covenant University, here we call it student's council as at against
SUG in other Universities. That gave me the opportunity to learn
leadership practically. I had the opportunity to work with the
Chancellor Dr. David Oyedepo and other professors and to see how you
could plan strategically because we were the first set and I was seen
as the voice of the students and also the link between the students
and the university.
to graduate as at when due, mostly as a result of incessant strikes,
some people such as Olumuyiwa Oludayo has not only graduated as at
when due but has quickly moved up the ladder of success as the
youngest registrar in Africa, at age 32. He would have been the
youngest in the world but the record was first made by a man from
Australia who was registrar at 35 years old, and another American lady
who first became registrar at age 24 in the 18century.
His journey to achieving such height at this young age didn't just
happen and contrary to what many would imagine, he wrote JAMB five
times before entering the Covenant University as a pioneer student in
2002. He narrates his journey to one of the highest offices in the
academic sector in this interview with Florence Utor.
Can you tell me how your journey to becoming the registrar of the
Covenant University began?
I got admission as a pioneer student in 2002 at the Covenant
University and like any other university that would want a student
body, I was appointed the first student council chairman of the
Covenant University, here we call it student's council as at against
SUG in other Universities. That gave me the opportunity to learn
leadership practically. I had the opportunity to work with the
Chancellor Dr. David Oyedepo and other professors and to see how you
could plan strategically because we were the first set and I was seen
as the voice of the students and also the link between the students
and the university.
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