AGAIN, OBASANJO GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is set to go back to school for a higher degree in Christian Theology. Obasanjo will on today, formally enrol as a graduate student at the headquarters of the National Open University of Nigeria in Lagos.
Having obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in 2009, Obasanjo will now be working towards a doctorate degree, beginning first with a Masters degree, an associate of the former president disclosed.
When contacted Monday night, Obasanjo confirmed he was returning to school.
He said it was important for him to make some commitments towards achieving his aspirations in life.
“I’m going back to school because I have to have something to aspire to in every endeavour of life,” Obasanjo said. “I always aspire to something new in my farm. I do that in my international activities. I do it in my writing. I do it in the improvement of my academic work which helps to sharpen my brain and strengthen my 

faith.”
When asked how he was going to cope combining his studies with his tight international engagements, Obasanjo said he would take advantage of the flexibility of the National Open University’s system.
“Fortunately, the Open University is flexible enough and I will definitely be able to cope. I was able to cope when I did the Post Graduate. I was also busy during the period,” he said.
The National Open University was initially established in 1983 but was suspended by the then military government in 1984. Obasanjo resuscitated it in 2001.
In November 2006, a few months to the end of his eight-year tenure, the then president enrolled for a post graduate diploma in Christian Theology at the university.
He graduated in January 2009.
At the graduation ceremony, the then Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Olagbemiro Jegede, described Obasanjo as a hardworking student.
”As a student, Obasanjo vigorously pursued his studies on full time basis…He is a shinning example of how seriously a student should take his learning. Like everybody, he sat for all the examinations using anonymous matriculation numbers, and by our internal quality control and security-proof control measures, his papers were marked by different tutors located in some of our study centres including Damaturu, Minna and Yenagoa,” Mr. Jegede said.



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