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Thursday 19 September 2013

Beautiful Twins Emerge With First Class At Redeemer’s University

Kehinde and Taiwo Babaagba

It’s no joke or myth that twins will always share a bond, and the very bond which is shared by identical twins, Taiwo and Kehinde Babaagba, is strengthened as they graduate from the Redeemer’s University, Mowe, Ogun State, with First Class degrees!
The two awesome twin sisters, Named Taiwo Babaagba and Kehinde Babaagba, been born before the coming of the Scottish missionary, Mary Slessor, in the 19th century, they were very likely to have been killed at infancy.
Reason: they would have been associated with ill omen and sacrificed to the gods.
Little wonder, the submissions of a visitor and an educationist, Dr. Ekanem Etuk, on the sidelines of the Redeemer’s University convocation, where the twins shone brilliantly like stars, aptly captured the place of Slessor in Nigerian history.

The Educationist, Etuk said this,
Thank God for science and civilization that came to Africa. Without this opportunity for advancement, the twin sisters of the Babaagba family of Mopa, Kogi State, would have been forgotten in history some 20 years ago. They would have been tagged mysterious children and killed immediately after birth. Which would have been a great loss to Nigeria as a country and their parent too.
“Perhaps their parents would have been ostracized or killed for allegedly desecrating their community.
Their own offence would have been that they gave birth to twins.”
But, thanks to social advancement, the two girls have today become a special gift to humanity.
At the RUN convocation ceremony last Thursday, the 20-year-old twins did not only bag First Class each, one of them, Kehinde, emerged the overall best graduating student with a 4.96 Cumulative Grade Point Average in Computer Science. Her sister, Taiwo, obtained a First Class in Economics, scoring 4.57 CGPA.
With just four points off the five CGPA, it was therefore not surprising that Kehinde, the second best graduating student in the history of the eight-year-old university, received nine of the 27 convocation prizes.
Not only stopping there, the Visitor, Vice Chancellor, College, Dean and the University Family Forum prizes were among the awards she won.
There were a total of 519 graduands in all.
As she walked to the podium on each occasion to receive her awards, electrifying shouts of victory rent the Youth Centre, the venue of the convocation.
There was giggling and words of astonishment.
In fact, many guests at the event wondered how she could have learned so much to be that outstanding at her age.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Debo Adeyewa, also affirmed Kehinde’s exceptional academic prowess, describing her as a potential Nobel Laureate.
Apart from the twins, 12 other female graduands were among the 20 who bagged First Class degrees that the university produced for the 2013 academic session.
According to the Vice Chancellor, the womenfolk are taking academic pursuits to loftier heights.
He adds, “The ladies have bounced back to claim what looks like their reserved territory. The best graduating student this year is a very strong representative of the girls. Miss Kehinde Babaagba in the Computer Science programme with a CGPA of 4.96 has brought back the trophy to the womenfolk. The university gladly offers full scholarship for her postgraduate programme as a worthy royal ambassador and a potential Nobel Laureate.”
However, for the twins, who also won the Redeemer’s University Women Association prize, an honour for the best-behaved female student, the success did not come without a price. Particularly for Kehinde, there were good and trying moments in the attainment of the accomplishment.
or, Tekena Tamuno, an emeritus professor, also urges them to be worthy instruments of change.
We are very sure that these two girls, (sorry, twins) will be of great help to Nigeria and Humanity as well.
Wishing them the very best, and also, the whole 5219 graduands.
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