The
Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, has
congratulated two indigenes of Ekiti State, Dr. Aarinola Olaiya and Dr.
Babatunde Falaye, for making it possible for the State to again hug global
spotlight for the right reasons. Both recently claimed international academic
honours in Nigeria and Mexico respectively.
With
a total of 12 distinctions, Aarinola Olaiya re-wrote the 28-year academic
records in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile Ife especially with distinctions made in precision-based Surgery as well as
Medicine in the final MBChB examinations.
On
his part, Babatunde Falaye, a Physics lecturer at the Federal University Lafia
in Nasarawa State, took home the award of best PhD thesis – Entanglement and
its Applications in Quantum Information – in a programme he completed in two
years instead of four at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. He
also published the highest number of articles on quantum and mathematical
physics within this time and graduated with an average score of hundred
percent.
Himself
a proud son of Ekiti State and an alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University
(OAU), Ojudu expressed delight at the achievements of his young compatriots,
saying…..
“News
of your excellent academic performance at local and foreign universities was
heart-warming, demonstrating that Ekiti State has great potentials to achieve
local and international recognition, if available human and material resources
in the State are properly harnessed.”
These
achievements were even more gratifying to me, Ojudu says, as they came against
the backdrop of notoriety for which Ekiti State has become noted in its recent
history. “For many years, Ekiti State was the widely-acknowledged Fountain of
Knowledge in Nigeria and land of honour, having produced renowned scholars as
the late Prof. Samuel Aluko, a globally respected professor of Economics; the
late Prof. J.F Ade Ajayi, a historian of repute; neurosurgeon Prof Osuntokun,
Prof Banji Akintoye and several others.
“Although
the pride in our glorious past may have been diminished by the gradual decline
in the performance of our youth, I am confident that with brilliant minds like
Olaiya and Falaye, we have a growing rank of achievers who could be held out as
role models to the youth of Ekiti.” The future is bright for Ekiti and that
change would come sooner than later to effectively rid young people of the
mindset of under-achievers who, at best, are only fit to be street cheer
leaders of politicians in search of popularity.
“I
heartily congratulate Olaiya and Falaye for making Ekiti State and Nigeria
proud with your enviable academic achievements; I urge you not to rest on your
oars for your best is yet to come,” Ojudu said, stressing, “Winning the Nobel
Prizes in Medicine and Physics would be crowning glory for the hard work you
have put into building your careers.”
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