23rd November, 2015
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the Doctor of Science Education in Political Science awarded to him by the Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Ijagun, as an honour to all who have worked with him in his entire life.
The first University of Education in Nigeria,TASUED, will on Saturday, 28 November, 2015 hold her 10th anniversary and 2015 Convocation ceremonies.
Some Nigerians who have distinguished themselves in their various disciplines will be conferred with doctorate degrees on the day in which the former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will be honoured too.
Also to be honoured posthumously on that day is the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, the late Chief Mrs Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, wife of the late sage, who died in September and will be buried on Wednesday, 25 November, the day she would have celebrated her centenary birthday.
In a letter written to the university’s management, dated 9 November, 2015, and personally signed by the former President himself, he thanked the Senate and Governing Council of the university for the honour.
“I received your letter of November 3, 2015, by which you confirmed the decision of the Governing Council and the Senate of Tai Solarin University of Education to confer on me an Honourary Doctorate Degree award of Doctor of Science Education in Political Science at the 10th anniversary of the University on November 28, 2015.
“I feel highly honoured by the kind sentiments expressed in your letter and the kind gesture, which I accept with pleasure.
“I want to thank the Senate and the University’s Governing Council for the honour done me.
“This award is not only to honour me, but, it is also an award for all the great men and women who have worked tirelessly with me in all the undertakings I have had in my life,” the letter read in part.