Final Year OAU student expelled, starts again and graduates with 1st Class from FUTA

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. This is the case for a final year student of OAU that was expelled in 2014. He never gave up when there seemed to be no hope, he carried on insisting on completing his first-degree education in FUTA.

Timilehin Abayomi took to his social media page to share his story, see what he wrote below.

My Mother and I held ourselves in late 2014, weeping uncontrollably after learning that I had failed in OAU after being accepted to the citadel in 2008. My studentship was withdrawn in my final semester, 5 years later, for reasons I completely accept responsibility for.

My family and I went through a tough moment of one suicide attempt, exile from home, and a family meeting to decide what to do next. I remember insisting on returning to university, and it was FUTA in 2015.

Fast forward to yesterday, I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Quantity Surveying with First Class Honours from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and placed in the top 5% of the university’s graduating class.

Between these years, I’ve gone through extensive refinement, learned various lessons, and grown as a person. Excellence, diligence, and tenacity, in particular, have become my watchwords.

With these guidelines in mind;

« I co-founded Inside FUTA, a news organization that helped the institution reintroduce campus media.

« I won the prize for a most distinguished first-time member of the House while representing my department at the Students’ Representative Council (SRC).

« Represented the University and competed against peers in the national debate, entrepreneurship, and construction competitions.

As I move forward in life, I’m determined to uphold the three values of excellence, diligence, and tenacity, in the hopes that they would help me achieve my ultimate objective of realizing the possibilities of media and communications in the construction industry.

Construction Cost Data Management, Construction Economics, and Project Management are three areas in which I am very interested in gaining professional/academic expertise.

As I’ve always maintained, this isn’t the best way to get a degree; nevertheless, tell anyone who has failed that “failure is not final, no matter how fatal, for he who falls shall rise again.”

I owe this eventual success to God, who gave me a second chance; to my dear Mother, who never gave up; family, who believed in me again; and friends, who were always there. My deepest appreciation to three of my friends who encouraged and supported me through this phase – Adesida Thompson, Anjolaolorun Alabi, ACIM & Opeyemi Fawole

This story is that of a failure who never gave up; a story of strength and courage. If you come across this, pray that God grants me speed for the years I have lost.

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