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uche87:
Since the revelation that a Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye graduated with Third Class honours from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, more Nigerians with the same class of degree have been speaking out.

A lady identified as Atinuke who is the CEO of Gizzelles Place has discussed how she bagged her Third Class degree at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State despite starting high school as a top student.

Atinuke who is currently running a successful make-up business in Lagos has narrated her story on Instagram with the moral lesson that Third Class honours graduates deserve respect.

Senator Dino Melaye's travails have given Third Degree holders the boldness to come out, as he has turned out a very successful politician.

Read Atinuke's story below:

Pree that Honors behind that class of degree. Yea, that's 3rd class Honours, therefore ladies and gentlemen, don't pronounce 3rd class without respect.

It's 3rd class Honours! That was what I presented my parents with after 4 years of hardwork.

While some parents Will say "is that what all your mates are bringing home?" my parents knelt me down and prayed for me. Lemme take you on a quick trip to my educational background. I remember one afternoon when I ran to my mom's shop in Iyana Ipaja garage with one of my books on my hand to show her that I can now write the number 8 correctly.

Lemme not confuse you, for a long time you see, I always wrote the number 8 by putting two zeroes on top of each other though I was the best in class. My mom and the other market women laughed at my childishness. You can never know how happy I was on that day. In JSS1, I was enrolled to a girls only government school in agege. I was in JSS1p and we were 150 in my class. Yes 150. After our first term exams, my class teacher, a woman whom I had never seen before came to the class to share our report cards. She started calling positions from the 10th downwards and asking us all to clap as they identified themselves.

When she got to the first position, she called out my name. I didn't stand up because I was somewhere at the back, seated on the floor among many others whose parent couldn't afford that pako locker. When everyone pointed to me, she urged me to follow her, took me to the staff room and showed everyone her best student with a percentage of 96.6.

Don't doubt it people, it was 96.6. She got me a locker afterwards and even customised it with my name so it won't be stolen. You would understand this if you went to a government school. Later on, my parents took me to a private school. lol, those kind of private schools that you would have to stay in the area where they are located to know they existed.

I was the headgirl for 3 years (sss1-3) because my head was big. OK you know why already. On end-of-session parties, which we barely paid for, I would participate in every program on the list of activities.

All parents knew me, I was hard to miss. On one of these occasion, my mom was called out to take a picture with me as the best student in English. As she turned to leave, they called the best in maths-me, and she had to turn back. Best in chemistry,physics and biology. I remember one woman shouting to my mom as she turns to leave everytime "kuku stay there till they finish".

Oya lemme not lie, I don't know maths, just that the other students in the class were even worse than I was in maths. Lol. I wrote WAEC twice simply because my maths was cancelled the first time. I wrote jamb twice too with an aggregate of 223 and 216 respectively. Am I ya mate? clap for me jor.

Don't mind me. Fast forward to my higher education. This was when I started making bad choices. I chose the wrong course. I wanted to study medicine so bad and when I couldn't get into lag, I chose the wrong school. TASUED was a bad choice and studying biology when I couldn't get medicine was an even worse choice. Before TASUED coman withdraw the certificate they gave me, let me say TASUED is a great school.

It is in fact the premier university of education in Nigeria. Oh so you don't know? Well I told you already. Medicine was a childhood dream. I didn't realize in time that science wasn't my passion. Even if I had studied medicine, I would have failed woefully. After these four years in school, I realize I wasn't built for science. I am a talented pencil artist, a makeup artist, I sing well and I would love to learn furniture making.

Where does all this fit into science? Medicine was a mere fantasy and I let societal pressure of going to the university affect my choice. I could have gone to a technical school, a home furnishing school, an art school and instead, I chose a science course I wasn't really interested in. At this point let me educate some of us on our failed education system.

Do you know that after JSS3, we were supposed to chose between spending 3 years in technical school or spending 3 years in senior secondary school? I bet some of us don't know this. Yea, because our society has found a way to surpress technical school. I wish I knew this earlier.

I left the things I loved and ran after what people expected me to do. Money was another factor. This was in fact the main factor. I remember in 200l when I wasn't allowed to do 5 exams out of 8 in first semester and 3 out of 9 in second semester. God, I almost packed my bag to leave cos I was done.

My mother, hmmm, God bless this woman insisted I stay. I told her my CGPA has been affected and I might never recover from that blow. That maybe I needed to start all over. Over just hissed and said "Atinuke, if they give you pass, just bring it home. If they give u 3rd class, accept it greatful" Mind you, she said this in yoruba ni o her English can break windscreen.

It was her voice in my head that made me continue. People who didn't even know anything were having 2.2 and 2.1. Lol. However, my non-challance played an important roll too. Since I got that blow in 200l, I lost faith. I became unserious. I would go for test,even if I went, I won't read. I lost focus. Now when I look at some of the dullest students in my class in secondary school, I understand what king Solomon said "time and tide happened to them all.. "

The race is not for the swift or mighty, but for God who showeth mercy. Success for me isn't going to happen within the four walls of a school or within the confines of education because I am not regular, I am VVIP.

This is me and this is my real life. Don't compare your real life to someone else's online controlled content.

Source: http://www.tori.ng/news/58645/just-like-dino-melaye-beautiful-girl-who-graduated.html

ToriBlue:
If you cannot study biology and come out with good grade, is it medicine you will study and come out with good grade? They will just withdraw you from the course.



I'm currently studying a course I didn't apply for and it is even more difficult than the course I applied for and guess what? I'm in second class upper, its all about determination. How can you encourage your children to read by telling them you graduated with third class? Anybody can be self employed, but there is a pride attached to good grade, a self fulfilment.

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

mosbiod:
Please I am still looking for where the story is touching.. I can only see a lady whose brain is probably been made up with Mary Kay.. You got a blow in 200level and you settled for it??.. You could at least finished with 2:2 if you tried... you didn't give it a try.
I wonder what you would have graduated with if you studied the same course in OAU or Biochemistry in my school..

The world will knock you down several times, get back up again and don't let those coming behind you trample on you while you are lying down flat, at least crawl if you cannot limp anymore...

mtchew

iwadobo:
Where did he say he works with a bank? I was the one that said i worked with a bank. Go, I pray thee, and treat your malaria before it seriously affect your brain. You are somehow beside yourself. Pele oooo

HAH:
Serious people that get low grade in school always excel, because they will always try to prove the people wrong, that the certificate they carry is not true colour to match their performance, this leads me to this story

in 2001 my bank organised an aptitude test, because no grade wa specified specified 3rd class holders too wrote the exams, there were first class too, out of about 300 that wrote the exam only 5 people passed and the highest is a person with a 3rd class, non of the 1st class passed when they were invited to interview he was asked how did you pass the test despite having 3rd class he said my class of degree propels me to excel always and prove to my family and friend that am good, our MD was so impressed with him and was offered employment at the bank training school he wa also one of the best he made (MT) and got double promotion, the guy promotion was steady until he became a manager in less than 10 years, there after he left now has a successful company in addition to MBA an PGD he did while working.

Always try to turn disadvantage to advantage a sky is your limit, and as an employer I honestly don't look at grades but what you can offer and how intelligent you are not how brilliant because an intelligent person extrapolate while a brilliant person is garbage in garbage out, if you are seeking employment display intelligence n brilliance or certificate

tonychristopher:
English isn't his father's language and he isn't an English teacher but an Enterprise person


Intelligences isn't measured by the grammar spoken

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

chiraqDemon:
She that has made it because she has talent and it has successfully helped her
How far mfrs wey nor get any talent or wey get but finance nor de to show am
Abeg all these ppl are making it seem like u should just go to school and hustle for 3rd class
Make una shuttup so we go dey serious with our studies, if after ur seriousness time and tide do u and u end up with 3rd class them ok, but dont make it seem like u should go and just do light hustle and go with 3rd class, nobody will consider a 3rdy over a 1sty

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

fof1:
PLS KEEP QUIET. WHAT DO U HAVE? MUST U POST SUCH NEGATIVITY? ITS UR DEGREE CLASS BUT WHAT U MAKE OUT OF IT. TRASH ALL D WAY.

dastudent:
Nobody? Are you sure? Gani Fawehinmi actually graduated with a third class you know.

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

skarz:
what would those with first class now say...if her story is touching...imagine going to class as early as 4am reading every minute,making presentation ahhh

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

jbbalarabe:
She is an employer so no need. Life is wonderful school grades and the real life grades are totally different.I am also a proudly Third class graduate I know the effort I put into graduating with that grade, God bless us all.

Despite all your effort, you still couldn't do better than 3rd Class ...

Well, the problem is not really with you people or your lack of effort, the problem is that most of your Brain cells are Dead, from an early age.

I wish you the best in Life.

No wonder Nairaland is full of rubbish comments, na so-so 3rd Class and outright failures full here!

MaziOmenuko:
Lol...whats with the 3rd-classites coming up with various touching stories? maybe they should kuku form an association and elect a grand patron.

Anyway, making 3rd class in a college of education? If I talk whats on my mind people go attack me here.

But you know try shaa...

pweeryambre:
For real I had this kind of feeling in school years ago. stuck in the wrong department, having carry overs up and down... The lecturers don't even know ANYTHING!. but I had to act fast in my second year, wrote another jamb and changed course... my dad, my family was mad and rained fire and brim stones.
They never understood my decision but I knew I had foresight. Now I have since graduated and served like 4 years ago and even with a good paying federal job, and contributing my own quota to the family with all the respect they accord me now.

megareal:
Disagree over what? Encouraging others not to take mediocrity as achievement?

My interest in school wasn't my preferred course but I graduated extra well. My passion is writing, music and entertainment generally. I used that to make extra money while in school.

My view is, when you endeavour to get admission into school, use that time to learn. Not everyone pursuing their passion will blow. Sometimes a course you hated studying can take you places. We don't really know what life holds for us future wise. Just get a good degree and other things will fall into place.

iyamchee:
Nobody will still consider employing you before a First class holder.....
No matter how touching your story is....
Fact is, you ended up with a Third class.....

dastudent:
Nobody? Are you sure? Gani Fawehinmi actually graduated with a third class you know.