Future Begins Now

The best graduating student of University of Ilorin, 2019 gave us some time to share the values that produced the excellent 4.98 CGPA result. Toluwani, first child of a family of 5 is 19 years old and the grand daughter of a professor of Mathematics. Please, introduce yourself briefly I'm Okunola Toluwani Deborah. A First Class graduate of the Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin. Why Mathematics/Statistics? I chose to study Mathematics because I enjoyed learning mathematics and solving mathematical problems and I believed that I could start my career along that path. You have been announced to be the best graduating student of the year, what factors will you say helped you achieve this? First of all, God's help. Then, good relationships (families and friends), focus, sacrifices, discipline, diligence, good time management and consistency. You are a beautiful young lady who is also intelligent, how did you handle distractions from the op...

While praying for children, an essential aspect adults do not like to miss is that of career and ambitions. They most of the time pray for them to be medical doctors, professors, lawyers, engineers, presidents and so on. You would rarely hear them pray for a child to become a teacher but that’s not what this article is about. You are likely to have heard an adult pray for a girl to become a first lady. That prayer is in itself not a bad one but when the ambition of a girl is to become a first lady, there’s a fundamental error somewhere. I recently overheard a girl saying she would become a first lady and I was prompted to write this. If it was someone I did not know at all, maybe I could have passed it off as a joke but with the girl in question, I saw it as a serious matter. Being a first lady in this context is a position occupied by the wife of a head of state or chief executive. That sounds more like a marriage/relationship goal than a future ambition. To have such a dream ...