…wins eight awards as best graduating student
By Jimmy Jackson
A 60-year-old student of the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Farouk Sanni, has emerged as the best-graduating student in the department as the University celebrates its 75th Convocation.
Farouk Sanni, a retired staff of UBA who said he felt accomplished with studying Sociology in his quest to understand why people behave the way they behave, said he had read Accounting at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, as an imposed course by an Uncle.
A 60-year-old student of the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Farouk Sanni, has emerged as the best-graduating student in the department as the University celebrates its 75th Convocation.
Farouk Sanni, a retired staff of UBA who said he felt accomplished with studying Sociology in his quest to understand why people behave the way they behave, said he had read Accounting at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, as an imposed course by an Uncle.
“This 60-year-old man, Mallam F. K. Sanni graduated with FIRST CLASS in Sociology, University of Ibadan as the best student in his set, and with that won 8 awards. He has two undergraduate children in UI at the moment.
“Until he graduated, he picked and dropped his two children at lecture halls, and most of the time, I met him reading under the tree on Saturday and Sunday.
“On Ileya day, I saw him at the usual reading space under a faculty tree, where he had brought a chair tied to the tree to use whenever he came around to read. I asked him jokingly: “Alhaji ni Ojo Ileya”, and he said “Oga, I have bought everything they needed for them oooo. Staying with them will distract me, Sir”.
