60-year-old Farouk Sanni has emerged as the best graduating student in the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan.

Farouk Sanni, a retired banker, 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.

Alhaji, as fondly called, the best graduating student, narrated his experience at the 75th convocation ceremony at the University of Ibadan.

According to him, he took up the challenge to stay healthy and pursue his quest to understand human behaviour after retiring from UBA and had to write JAMB to be admitted to study sociology.

Sanni, who bagged eight awards as a result of the feat, said he wrote JAMB with his child, who is now studying law at the University of Ibadan.

He said: “Studying in a class where you have those who are of the same age as your children can be very challenging, but I was magnanimous to accommodate what happened. Some called me Daddy, some called me Mr Sanni while some will even say “he may be a daddy but he is not my father”. I experienced a lot of things, but as an old person, I was able to remain focussed.”

Speaking on the feat of Mr Sanni, Dr Oludayo Tade a lecturer in the department, said the best-graduating student had a chair which he tied to a tree where he read under a tree in the faculty of the social sciences.

He said: “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, he said Oga, I have bought everything they needed for them oooo. Staying with them will distract me, Sir.”

Bobloco:

Is Tinubu an Ọmọlúàbí. Just asking for a friend

seguno2:
Empty chest beating of failures. If we don’t joke with knowledge, then why are we not continuing with Awolowo and UPN governors free education

ijustdey:


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PlayMaker14:
Congratulations Sir, so happy you did not “Chicago” this certificate from Oluwole printing press.

Proud of you Alhaji Farouk.

PlayMaker14:
Congratulations Sir, so happy you did not “Chicago” this certificate from Oluwole printing press.

Proud of you Alhaji Farouk.

tyinfinity:
Thank God Agulu dullard will emulate you to go back to university

tyinfinity:
Thank God Agulu dullard will emulate you to go back to university

PlayMaker14:
Congratulations Sir, so happy you did not “Chicago” this certificate from Oluwole printing press.

Proud of you Alhaji Farouk.

haybhi1:
Most likely an Omoluabi. We don't joke with knowledge in this side of the country. We can take many things but the stigma of being tagged illiterate? We deride that. A pepper seller ensures her child schools. Agbero sends his child to school.

Although

saintbillion:

Yes oo