Smarty-pants.. show us proof. And don't hate pls. What d u graduate with sef, sef, where are u now? Give facts or shut the F.uck up bi.tch!!

eltigreu06:
@OP sorry to burst your bubbles...a convocation ceremony was held in January this in zaria , ABU precisely. A Chemistry graduate had the same feat and no hell was raised..the Chemistry graduate had 5.0 CPGA..whatever ur grievances are, a chemistry graduate deserves. More noise and recognition than the sociology graduate you all are drooling over..Peace

slimmy2005:
How the hell are you sure he is not spontaneously intelligent? Stop the unnecessary hate. Such feat should be celebrated.

Pragmatic thinking is always called hating in Nigeria. Let him wait for the government to celebrate him....

Jung:

Bornfool!!!! I got a job, and ain't jobless like you ... that guy is my classmate and close paddy. He is about to be received by the house of reps.. something ur fada has never and will never achieve!!! Goan check graduating list f.ool!! His GP was the only one higher than mine at faculty level! Come let me employ you!! Nitwit oshi!

Reported to the mods. If this Joker is indeed a close friend of Dada, there is a problem. Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. If his close friends are rude Ill bred uncouth sycophants, then Dada will have a hard time assimilating into the ordered society of the Workplace.

Someone just said that most first class students are crammers, garbage in garbage out. that they are not and have not the ability of independent thinking and analysis. Come to think of it in social sciences, especially sociology if there is independent thinking on issues, don't you think there will be conflict on solutions? do you think after that, marks to be giving will be full? and after that the CGPA will be 5.00?

Mr. Oyb.. I will make it my business to always look for u and report u as well.. since it is ur type we use to beat up for "snitching" to the class teacher! Dada is fifty times ur better! Don't even say trash pls. Oyb shey? U don enter soup meant for someone else


Even if they ban me I have more than enough monikers to come after u. F.ool

oyb:


Reported to the mods. If this Joker is indeed a close friend of Dada, there is a problem. Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are. If his close friends are rude Ill bred uncouth sycophants, then Dada will have a hard time assimilating into the ordered society of the Workplace.

Jung:

Mr. Oyb.. I will make it my business to always look for u and report u as well.. since it is ur type we use to beat up for "snitching" to the class teacher! Dada is fifty times ur better! Don't even say trash pls. Oyb shey? U don enter soup meant for someone else


Even if they ban me I have more than enough monikers to come after u. F.ool

bro be courteous. I think oyb made his opinion without using any abusive word.If you don't agree with his give reason and let go. please stop insulting someone you don't really know much please.

what is the big deal in a psychology student making a 5.0 grade when in today's advanced technological world what is being celebrated in today's world is what you can bring in technologically to improve human life. How many of his types has won Nobel prices for his type of courses rather it has always been for science, technology, engineering and medicine. So we should not be sentimental about trivial issues like this. So the wailing wailers should stop their unwarranted wailing and concentrate on issues at hand.

Jung:

Mr. Oyb.. I will make it my business to always look for u and report u as well.. since it is ur type we use to beat up for "snitching" to the class teacher! Dada is fifty times ur better! Don't even say trash pls. Oyb shey? U don enter soup meant for someone else


Even if they ban me I have more than enough monikers to come after u. F.ool

unilag standards must have fallen really low if these are the sort of thugs they are churning out as first class grads these days

clearly things are not what they used to be

little boy - understand - a degree is the beginning

if you do not cease this silly attitude, it will be the END

dumodust:
But truth be told, I dont understand this first class guy... cant he go and get a job or something ASAP with his degree. Why is he strutting around like he's supposed to be given money, our commonwealth or honours? Comparing yourself to other hustlers without first class is lame
life is a constant hustle dude, e never end... stop being lazy and hustle more, life is never fair but you are currently technically begging for alms... just like the other day you started telling us that you can't pay your rent... seriously?

candid opinion

That's the ignorance in this country. To even imagine that someone has to blame Buhari is unthinkable. And I always ask, what exactly did the boy do for Nigeria for the government to honour him specially?

we all knw 5.0 is not easy,but he has already been conferred honour by the sch and other agency or should we give him the whole nigerian fortune because he has 5.0,this guy is becoming an opportunist.

Pls shut up if u don't anything to say!! Are you the one that made him a opportunist? Hater oshi

laidima88:
we all knw 5.0 is not easy,but he has already been conferred honour by the sch and other agency or should we give him the whole nigerian fortune because he has 5.0,this guy is becoming an opportunist.

@va.gina...
He ha done us proud... Pls lie down and die

Reyginus:
That's the ignorance in this country. To even imagine that someone has to blame Buhari is unthinkable. And I always ask, what exactly did the boy do for Nigeria for the government to honour him specially?

Oscarvictor:
@va.gina... He ha done us proud... Pls lie down and die

Who is us? And how?

What do you expect from a president who did not pass out from secondary school "successfully". A yoruba adage says "it is someone who knows the value of Gold that appreciates it". B.U.H.A.R.I.(BRING US HARDSHIP AND REMOVE INTEGRITY) does not know the value of education, so you shouldn't expect him to appreciate Daniel.

they were all still astonished by Olajumoke story...so a student making 5.0 wasn't news......awon wereh

We don't celebrate greatness but entergreatness.

dumodust:
But truth be told, I dont understand this first class guy... cant he go and get a job or something ASAP with his degree. Why is he strutting around like he's supposed to be given money, our commonwealth or honours? Comparing yourself to other hustlers without first class is lame
life is a constant hustle dude, e never end... stop being lazy and hustle more, life is never fair but you are currently technically begging for alms... just like the other day you started telling us that you can't pay your rent... seriously?

candid opinion

He is not lazy. He started working in a top Multinational immediately after school. He is not strutting around looking for attention, he shies away from it. He has been in the news for this long because he deserves it. He has received every offer you can think of, both locally and internationally with remunerations that would make your Jaw drop. I am sure he is taking his time to ensure that he makes the right choice. I don't think you made your comment from an envious point of view, but you should learn to do research before making comments or you risk sounding like a majority of deranged and hating NL'ers.

It pains my heart a lot of nigerians don't see the way things are being handled.. You can't see beyond where you are and who you are.. Its hard to comprehend all the hatred and insults towards the president, its still irrelevant if we just sit to judge the person we don't know what he's busy doing, NIGERIANS oh my people, blame others not for our misfortune, we are all to blame. MR PRESIDENT I belive as been facing a lot of stress leading a country that the road to success is so dim and faint. Let's encourage and support with our good mouth and pray for our country to recover from aLl the calamity we had gone through.. Don't let our heroes past be in vain... #it hurts, am tired of loosing my people..it truly hurt fellows.

all this noise from the press is a distraction even to the guy himself, the school would definitely retain him, he has opportunity to get federal govt scholarship, the house of rep would honor the guy for his academic achievement "waiting them one make them give the guy again" the guy first class has no direct impact on the live of an average Nigerian , it is not as if the guy invented something new. they should allow the boy focus on his future studies.

shamecurls:
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The problem of Africa is the East (North Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Zimbabwe e.t.c)

The problem of Nigeria is the ****[/size]

IDIOT boko haram your brothers and sisters

Only educated men value education. Our former President would not have hesitated to congratulate Dada for his stellar academic performance.

Jung:

Bornfool!!!! I got a job, and ain't jobless like you ... that guy is my classmate and close paddy. He is about to be received by the house of reps.. something ur fada has never and will never achieve!!! Goan check graduating list f.ool!! His GP was the only one higher than mine at faculty level! Come let me employ you!! Nitwit oshi!

Oh, now I understand ur plight. Lunch period is cool to feast on ur sad miserablee life. I am on ur trail now, when u begin to beg to be a houseboy I will gallantly come in to mock you. My father didn't achieve such feat and yea he is successful. I would not waste my time to celebrate an idiot who is yet to witness what horror life has in store for him in a few years. with ur supposed cool grade, you will weep. is it not Nigeria? haha, and why has he beat u if you are as good as u claim? This guy is way better off and I smell envy all over u though u appear to felicitate with him?

Go back to ur cleaning post while u keep checking on NYSC portal. Failure

redcliff:


Pragmatic thinking is always called hating in Nigeria. Let him wait for the government to celebrate him....

How the hell do you think he is waiting for the government to celebrate? You are obviously hating. He already got offers from different firms including MTN but he is undecided.

slimmy2005:
How the hell do you think he is waiting for the government to celebrate? You are obviously hating. He already got offers from different firms including MTN but he is undecided.

Lol. Then please tell others and everyone inclusive that he already has job offers so that they can stop writing pathetic letters seeking something of some form from some quarters because obviously, they dont know he has job offers!

redcliff:


Lol. Then please tell others and everyone inclusive that he already has job offers so that they can stop writing pathetic letters seeking something of some form from some quarters because obviously, they don;t know he has job offers!

Get busy bro and stop the hate. He deserves to be celebrated. The dude did brilliantly well and scaled through all the pressure and ills of schooling in Nigeria. A's for four years? in 40 courses? Infact, go to hell

NgeneUkwenu:
By Azuka Onwuka and not Punch Newspapers!

Illiterates everywhere..

you have become a laughing stock.

JennyNwa22:
By Azuka Onwuka

A big opportunity came to President Muhammadu Buhari to shine some weeks ago but he let it waste. A graduate of the University of Lagos, Mr Ayodele Daniel Dada, made history by being the first graduate of the university to make the maximum cumulative grade point average (CPGA) of 5.00 point out of 5.00. Even though it was not said that he was the first graduate from any Nigerian university to make such a result, I have never heard that a graduate made such a result in any other Nigerian university.

What it meant was that Dada made an A in all the courses he took. That includes courses from other departments and faculties, which were not related to his course of study. For example, imagine an arts student who hates computations and scientific theories being made to take a subject in the natural sciences as well as computer. Many of such people would just pray to get the minimum score in those non-related but compulsory courses. Their dream will be to just pass those courses so as to be free to focus on the directly related courses that made them come to the university in the first place.

In the case of Dada, he made an A in all these courses right from his first year to his final. If he had made anything less than an A in any of his university courses, it would have dented his CGPA and he would not have made a 5.00. Reports from UNILAG indicate that when the university authorities heard of the unbelievable result, they called for his papers. After a thorough scrutiny, they found out that Dada deservedly got an A in all his courses. The CGPA was subsequently awarded to him.

However, he did not get the same opportunity in 2011 when he sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board seized his result that year “for cheating”. JAMB must have been too shocked with his result that it believed that there was no way Dada could have made such a score except by cheating. Sadly, JAMB has not come up with any mechanism to identify exceptionally brilliant candidates. Dada eventually decided to take the option of doing a diploma programme at the University of Lagos. That disappointment of having his result seized for being too brilliant could have dampened the spirit of some people and made them derail. But happily, Dada persevered in spite of his unenviable family financial status.

The announcement of Dada’s university result on February 25 was therefore a heaven-sent opportunity for Buhari to shore up his rating among the people. It was the type of opportunity many presidents would pray for but never get. The reason is simple. This is not something that happens regularly. It can never even be predicted. Having a first class is a regular occurrence in universities. Each university graduates many first class students every year. But having a graduate with 5.00 CGPA out of 5.00 is a rarity. It is said that perfection is not possible among humans, but this is something akin to perfection. So, anybody who has achieved this feat is nothing but a genius.

Why did President Buhari not celebrate this exceptional student? Was it because he did not know about it? Was it because it did not carry much weight with him? Did his media aides like Mr Femi Adesina and Mr Garba Shehu not know about it? Did the ministers of education not hear about it? What about the minister of youths and sports? Did they hear about it and briefed the President on the need to tap into and celebrate the achiever but were ignored by the President?

At a time entertainment (like music, acting, comedy, dancing, etc) is taking the attention of many youths away from education and academic excellence, celebrating the academic feat of Dada would have done a lot for education in Nigeria. Immediately the news broke, the President should have sent a letter of congratulation to Dada and then invited him to Aso Rock for a handshake. At such a meeting, the President should have used that opportunity to stress his administration’s commitment to excellence in all human endeavours, especially in academic pursuit. He should have used that opportunity to inform the nation of his belief that the youths are the hope of the nation and should be supported and encouraged to excel. Then, he should have given the young man a scholarship and whatever other incentives he could.

It was also surprising that neither the governor of his state of origin (Ekiti State) nor state of residence (Lagos) keyed into the excellent performance of Dada. It was as if it was nothing special.

Similarly, except for the few comments within the two days of the breaking of the story, most Nigerians did not see the news item as something of great importance to talk about. Compare that to last month’s story of the transformation of Mrs Jumoke Orisaguna from a bread hawker to a model. Almost every person made a comment about her in the social media and private discussions for weeks. Even columnists wrote about her. Companies and brands fell over themselves to make donations to her and her children as well as make her advertise their brands. Pastors used her to preach and pray in churches.

It says a lot about our focus and values as a nation. Even though most Nigerians want the nation to become a superpower and a super economy, the government and citizens don’t celebrate academic excellence. How can a country become one of the leading countries of the world if excellence – especially academic excellence – is not celebrated? It is for the same reason that teachers, lecturers and researchers are poorly remunerated, while creative minds and their creations are ignored. It is for the same reason that winners of entertainment contests get prizes that run into millions of naira, while winners of academic and scholarly contests get rewarded with plaques. But then one may not blame corporate organisations because they are not charities. They need to support programmes that will give them visibility and patronage. But that the government joins in not giving priority to academic excellence is not excusable.

Entertainment is good and needs to be promoted. But a country does not grow by giving all attention to entertainment to the detriment of educational excellence and scientific breakthroughs.

It may not be easy for a government to turn the economy around within a year. It may not be easy for the government to defeat the Boko Haram as promised. It may not be easy to solve the electricity supply problem within a year. But there are quick wins that a government can achieve. There are also opportunities that a government can exploit immediately they present themselves. These opportunities will always present themselves in the life of every administration. Whatever an administration makes of such opportunities depends on that administration. Sometimes even a bad situation can be quickly turned around by a government that thinks on its feet.

The tempo may have died down on the issue of Dada, but it is not too late for the government to celebrate him. It is said that it is better late than never. When excellence is rewarded and celebrated by the government, people are encouraged to seek excellence. As David W. Johnson said: “There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”

http://www.punchng.com/the-injustice-buhari-did-to-the-genius-of-unilag/

But reports say that Dogara-led House of Representatives is to honour the gentleman.

Opinedecandid:
Hmmm.

Maybe we should look away from Mr. President.
I will stop blaming President Buhari, only if I can.
Nigerians should take the blames.
I won't blame Mr. President, because it is not really his fault, as someone who didn't go to school, no one should expect something quite much from him.

Come to think of it, ain't Nigerians expecting just too much from Mr. President?

You guys hyped the man too much, and as if that wasn't enough, you voted for him, and now you want him to wave a magic wand to cause 'changes'.

Can he really give what he doesn't have?

they r too daft to understand my dear.

slimmy2005:
Get busy bro and stop the hate. He deserves to be celebrated. The dude did brilliantly well and scaled through all the pressure and ills of schooling in Nigeria. A's for four years? in 40 courses? Infact, go to hell

Tell you family that first....

ofwest:
what is the big deal in a psychology student making a 5.0 grade when in today's advanced technological world what is being celebrated in today's world is what you can bring in technologically to improve human life. How many of his types has won Nobel prices for his type of courses rather it has always been for science, technology, engineering and medicine. So we should not be sentimental about trivial issues like this. So the wailing wailers should stop their unwarranted wailing and concentrate on issues at hand.

5.0 CGP in a federal Nigerian institution is a big deal, it shows great discipline, dedication, brilliance, tenacity and adaptability.

All traits needed to succeed in life.