The University of Lagos (UNILAG) that is well known has the Nigeria University of first choice and the Nation's pride yesterday the 12th of June, 2014 awarded a PhD to Mr.
Olaoluwa Oluwadamilola (age 24), making him Africa’s youngest PhD holder.
Olwadamilola
had the best PhD thesis, titled: “Studies on Fixed Points of Contractive
and Expanding Maps in Multi-Dimensional Spaces”. He scored 5.0
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
Bakre Oluwafemi Abubakar, a graduate of Electrical/Electronics, was the
2012/2013 Convocation Valedictorian, with a superlative CGPA of 4.86.
Olaoluwa
obtained a B.SC in Mathematics and M.SC and Physics in African Central
Republic before returning to Nigeria in October, 2009. He began his PhD
in 2010, courtesy of a scholarship from the General Overseer of the
Deeper Christian Life Mission, Pastor Williams Kumuyi. Speaking with
reporters at UNILAG Auditorium One, Oluwadamilola said:
“I
used to come first in my secondary school days, but not always. My
performances became better when I entered the university. As a
Christian, my schedule is very tight. I am focused. There were times
when I faced distractions from friends who wanted to take me out. There
is nothing bad in it, but it can make you concentrate less. There were
times when I had job offers and was tempted to take them.
I
was discouraged at the beginning. One gets a feeling at the beginning
of one’s doctorate programme that all the research topics had been
considered by previous scholars and so there is nothing else to do,
except for the most complicated ones that are most times beyond one’s
ability. Sometimes when you send your papers to international journals,
they return it for one reason or the other. That does not mean your work
is not good enough, but it can be very discouraging. I want to take
another doctoral programme, which will be in either Mathematics or
Physics. I will think of what topic to choose before I eventually go
ahead,” he said.
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