As mentioned earlier, I was the only female student in my set but thank God, there were many female students in other cognate courses that we had lec… - Olubola Babalola

No! The road to success has never been an easy ride. There are always ups and downs. When I gained admission to study quantity surveying, I was the only female student in my set and you know the kind of feelings one would have being the only odd one, most especially when we had departmental courses offered by my set only. Thank God, I got used to the system with time and to the glory of God I had the best graduating results amidst male students. As I moved up the ladder for post-graduate programmes, the challenge of combining office work with academic career and matrimony arose. I could not see myself coping with the combined tasks but with the unalloyed support, understanding, words of advice and encouragement from the people God surrounded me with and by the special grace of God, I was able to rise above the challenges.

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The school would ensure that practising members who had not registered with the institute but were domiciled in the faculty would be registered to enhance the growth of the NIOB.