The family of Mr. Nurudeen Adegoke, were highly elated on Saturday as their 26-year-old son of a plumber graduated with a first class degree in Mathematics and as the overall best graduating student at the 24th convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Saturday.
Adegoke said being a son of a plumber did not deter him from achieving success.
He emphasized that the road that leads to success is challenging but thanked God for seeing him through while assisting him to achieve his heart desires as he had to put in personal efforts to get himself through his degree programme.
He said, "I really worked very hard. No unserious student can survive the rigour at the Mathematical Science department from where I graduated. I was very prayerful too.
"Right from my first day in FUTA, I was determined, focused and diligent. I was humble too because humility is very essential in anything one is doing.
"I was at the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, for my Ordinary National Diploma in Statistics. I got direct admission to FUTA, doing everything on my own.
"My dad is a plumber while my mother is a petty trader. I am really from a humble background. Being the first child of my family, I made up my mind to be serious and hardworking so that I could help my
parents in taking care of the academic needs of my younger ones.
"I always had it at the back of my mind that I must pass very well if I really wanted my certificate to be useful to me and I was always prayerful and focused.
"I used to get involved in tutorials. I didn't play with my academics. I am not sure I had any social life because I didn't want any form of distraction," Adegoke added.
He urged students not to play with their studies and always have it at the back of their minds that they have to pass very well.
DailyPost gathered that 15 out of the 1,960 students that graduated had a first class degree, 561 were in the second class upper division, 998 graduates were in the second class lower division; 331 in the third class; while 55 of them graduated with a pass.
