Mother Of 2 Emerges Best Graduating Students With 4.97CGPA
A Business Education student and mother of two children, Edafe Bawa-Dogo, has emerged Babcock University overall best graduating student with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97 out of the 62 first class in the 2018 graduates
Bawa said that her achievement of the academic feat was made possible by God.
According to her, the encouragement from her mother while on campus brought out the best in her. ‘’My retired mother was always calling to remind me of the need to read me my books despite my busy scheduled,” she said.
On the choice of her course as Business Education graduate she said: ‘’My mother’s love for teaching influenced also my passion for education course.
She makes me love the teaching profession.” As a mother of two, Bawa-Dogo disclosed that another important factor to her academic success was hard work, noting that in spite of her busy schedule of taking care of her children, she used to go through her lectures several times at home to ensure every lesson taught was well understood. ‘
’As a working mother of two, I combined my studies with my work as school officer at the Department of Computer Science, Babcock University. After work, I had to come back home and assist my children in their home work and church activities every Saturday.
So, it was important that I worked very hard.”
Recapitulating her academic performance while in primary and secondary school , she said; “It was not as if I have always been at the top of my class ever since I started school. However, at a point, God turned everything around and I became a serious student.
