For recording outstanding academic success, two female students of Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nafisat Olabisi and Izojie Imafidion have again lent credence to the maxim, “What a man can do, a woman can do better.”
The duo emerged the best graduating students, beating 1,819 others at the university’s combined fifth and sixth convocation held on Friday.
While 22-year-old Olabisi of the Department of Economics garnered a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.72 to emerge the best student for the 2012/2013 set, Imafidion (24) of the Department of Mass Communication and Media Technology clinched the overall best award in the 2012/2013 set, scoring a CGPA of 4.78.
Following this accomplishment, the two received the prestigious Chancellor’s Prize amid a rousing ovation from members of the university community and other guests on the occasion. Besides, they took home departmental and faculty prizes for academic excellence.
But apart from having the common gift of academic excellence, the two see life, particularly social life, from the same prism. In separate chats with our correspondent, they explained that they shunned “campus love” during their undergraduate days.
That singular decision, they acknowledge, helped them greatly in the pursuit and accomplishment of their success.
Sharing her survival strategy, Olabisi notes that the
