It was in Bolaji Sanusi’s ‘The Liberation News’ that I first got the hint that Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, the ninth vice-chancellor, would be 60 last week Tuesday, through a piece by Louis Odion titled ”Bouquet for the Amazon of multi-tasking at 60”. It came out in the April 18 edition of the online newspaper.
Indeed, I marvel at how the two of them have managed to stay together for this long despite belonging to two different religions. I marvel because in our country, too many of us are religious but we do not let the tenets of these two religions reflect in our lives. Imagine how the Muslim-Muslim ticket of Tinubu and Kashim Shettima almost tore the country apart. Imagine how on every street churches and mosques are mushrooming and competing for attention.
I know so many marriages that were contracted long after theirs that have since collapsed despite the fact that both husbands and wives belong to the same religion. So, what is the problem? The problem definitely is not in the religions but in the people professing to be practicing them. It is not only on the children that you feel the impact of a good mother, it rubs off on the husband too. When I read Odion’s piece on her, I could see the invaluable contributions she had made in the life of TB. I said that much last week when I wrote about the First Lady and her contributions to her husband’s political and other successes. If TB has been able to come this far, it is because a great woman is also by his side.
She then proceeded to Lagos State College of Science and Technology, Lagos, and thereafter to the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Physiology in 1985. She later went to the University of Lagos, Lagos, where she got her Master’s in the same discipline. Thereafter, she proceeded to the University of Texas at San Antonio, Health Science Centre, San Antonio, United States of America, between 1994 and 1998.
Nothing I have said should be taken to mean that Ibiyemi-Bello is flawless. No mortal is. My advice to her is to keep doing those things that have been earning her accolades even as she makes room for improvement concerning constructive criticisms.
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