Nigerian student shines in Poland, graduates with 5.0 CGPA

Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona, one of Nigeria’s scholars has written his name in gold, and made the country proud in Poland, as he recently graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in Computer Technology from the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Lodz.

Originally an undergraduate of Babcock University, where he completed his 100 Level studies with a top First Class grading, the unassuming Mobolaji, who is 20 years old, was among the seventeen brilliant students of the university that left Nigeria at the beginning of their 200-level in 2014 to continue their studies in Poland, under a special degree exchange programme arranged by Babcock University with the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Lodz, Poland.

They were then to enjoy the status of ‘international students’ until the end of their four-year course, as, even when they had to return to Babcock University in 2016 for their last and final year, they continued to be monitored, supervised and mentored by their lecturers and supervisors in Poland.

Mobolaji and his colleagues were the pioneers in the exchange programme between Babcock and the Polish University, which is now in its fourth year.

At the 15th Convocation Ceremonies of Babcock University on Sunday, June 4, 2017, Mobolaji drew a thunderous round of applause when he, (alongside twelve of his colleagues who successfully completed the programme), was presented to the mammoth crowd, and was announced to have made a clean grade of 5.0 and emerged with the best result in the programme.

The Chancellor of the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Aniela Bednarek, was on hand to witness the presentation to Mobolaji, of a Special Achievement Award for his superlative academic performance.

“By the time I was writing my final examination and defending my final year project, my CGPA was already at a clean 4.79.  It was my final overall examination, which is a rigorous assessment of the totality of what a student could have learnt in all their four years of study, as well as the grading of my final year project, which was acclaimed to be the best in the whole of the programme, and in the whole school, that shot me beyond the regular first class, that I had always been in” Mobolaji said.

The graduand’s parents, especially the mother, a teacher and school proprietor, were overwhelmed with joy. They thanked God for the life of their son, who is the first of their three children. Olukemi Oluwasona the mother described Mobolaji as a disciplined young man, who had always shown signs of excellence from childhood.

She said Mobolaji had won prizes for being the best behaved student severally before finishing in 2007 as the Best Graduating Student from Mind Builders School, Omole Estate, Lagos, where he had his primary education.

Mobolaji’s father, Olukayode Oluwasona Snr., a top advertising practitioner, thanked God for ordering his son’s path.  He recalled how the young man sojourned through high school education at the Redeemers International Secondary School, Maryland, Lagos.  ‘There, he was basically a standard student, doing well, but not really leading in class. When he gained admission to study Computer Science (Technology) in Babcock University in August, 2013, he told me ‘Dad, I am going to be the best in my class by the time, I graduate’.  I was very happy not just to hear him, but to see very clearly, the determination in his face.  I then prayed for him, wished him the very best and promised to reward him, if he did it’, explained the proud dad.

Oluwasona Snr. concluded that he is particularly happy that, from a regular Babcock University student, Mobolaji eventually graduated as an ‘international student’ from the Polish University, not only as the Best-in-Class, but also as the Best-in-School, with an astounding academic performance of 5.0 grade.  He admonished the Nigerian Government to invest adequately in the education sector as a way of ensuring a progressive future for the nation.