Category : Interviews

For 21-year-old Korede Akinpelumi, mounting the podium to receive academic prizes is like treading on familiar terrain. Perhaps, winning laurels and prizes seems to be another fitting middle name for the Ondo State-born chemical engineer. No wonder, last Wednesday during the University of Lagos convocation, Akinpelumi repeated what he knows how to do best. He…

Had Mr. And Mrs. Sehinde Omope rated material things above their children’s education, the success recorded by their son, Oluwatosin, could have been impossible. Not only did Oluwatosin obtain a first class degree, the 21-year-old also emerged the 2014 overall best-graduating student of the Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State. He obtained a 4.79 Cumulative Grade…

The best graduating student from the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, in the 2013/2014 academic session, Obidiegwu Chibuike, 22, graduated with a 6.5/7.0 CGPA to emerge as the best. He shared his experience in an interview with a Punch correspondent. How easy was it to graduate with a first class, especially in Computer Science?…

In the quest to provide valuable career information to secondary school leavers and undergraduates, Knowbase consult conducted an interview with an ICAN certified, practicing accountant with over 5 years working experience in the banking sector. What advice do you have for Secondary School Leavers? Secondary School Leavers who have sat and passed the Senior Secondary…

Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Olusegun Ajiboye, University of Ibadan branch, tells OLUFEMI ATOYEBI that the strike will continue unless the Federal Government honours the 2009 agreement it entered with the union Apart from union activism, what other work do you do? I am a lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education…

Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, the Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, in this interview with ADEOLA BALOGUN, shares his experiences Why did a young man choose to study History when everyone would like to study Medicine, Law and Engineering? When I was a young man, my parents thought I was going to be an…