Oluyemisi Oluremi Obilade Quotes

When the world of people know what you stand for, your life becomes easier. When you stand for God there is a price to pay. You can work among corrupt people and not be corrupted.

When people know that you're living to please God, they will respect your stand. There are certain things your boss won't ask you to do because He knows who you are.

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.

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.

We must address the socialisation process that gives less worth to the girl-child. Our society from birth has conferred a subordinate role on the girl-child. We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.

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.

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.

We are going to take punitive measures against these teachers and give a voice to students.

In some rural areas, parents withdraw girls from schools when they reach a certain age because they are afraid they will have to have relations with teachers.

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

A nation with a large number of uneducated citizens cannot develop. Education is the foundation for development.

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.