Oluyemisi Oluremi Obilade Quotes

We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.

We can make Education more attractive through our application of technology and Information Communication Technology in the learning curricula.

There were lots of challenges. There were days when I didn’t have money; days when my school fees were delayed. I didn’t have a lot of things that my mates had but I knew I was going to have them one day as I knew that with God on my side, I was going to work hard and ensure that those things I didn’t have then, I could have them when working so I got stuck to school.

I was the first born of the family and was dearly loved by my grandparents and my mum. It was like a punishment but I knew that was the way out for me.

The award of the honorary Doctorate Degree in Political Science to Chief Obasanjo was a unanimous decision of the TASUED’s Governing Council.

He encouraged me to fly, to spread my wings. I was determined to fly, I was not going to allow anything to kill my dreams and fortunately, he shared that.

I was born over 58 years ago to an average family, my father was a teacher and my mother worked in the hospital. I was born in Ile Ogbo, Osun State.

They never made me believe I was inferior to anybody. So, I grew up believing that I was equal to everybody. I don’t have any inferiority complex. They never made me believe I could not achieve my dreams. My parents taught me to reach for the sky, to break the glass ceilings. I was taught early that with the help of God.

There can’t be remarkable improvement in change in attitudinal behaviour of the people without education. Education is an effective instrument for positive change.

If you don’t train and retrain teachers, education will continue to be comatose; students will continue to fail woefully and development may not be possible.

Teachers should be trained and retrained. This should be done regularly. If teachers who are key factors in schools are left out, then we should not expect that pupils would perform very well.

You know when the hand shake is going beyond the elbow between a person in position of authority and a person at a lower position and it has sexual motive, that is sexual harassment.

I happened to come from grandmothers and a mother who were not apologetic about being women.

Women in leadership need to be prepared for challenges. Also, other women in leadership need to mentor younger women so as to prepare them for leadership. Leadership is not easy for a woman.

Sexual harassment is a no go area for both the students and lecturers of this noble institution. We will not tolerate such attitude. We will not in any way cooperate with the harassers and we are going to make sure that we invoke all regulations in the university against sexual harassment.