A 77-year-old retiree on Tuesday graduated from the University of Lagos, UNILAG.
She was one of the 3,795 students who graduated from five faculties during the Day 1 of the three-day convocation.
The Registrar, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, acknowledged the septuagenarian when the graduates filed out to shake the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and other principal officers.
The woman, however, refused to give her name.
She said: “I studied Guidance and Counselling and I am most grateful to God Almighty, who enabled me to see this day. I will not like my name to be mentioned because I know where I am coming from and what I am protecting.
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“I am a retired officer. I have worked in a lot of countries around the world and also in Nigeria, where I finally retired.’’
The woman said she enrolled for the degree programme to keep herself busy.
“You know when you retire like that, you will not want to stay at home and be dying slowly. Education has no limit. It is from cradle to death in order to add value to the society,’’ she said.
SOURCE: The Nation
