FUTA is trending because in 2013, one classic Nigerian lecturer Dr. Oludele Thomas failed a student who was representing the school at a competition, despite an exemption letter from the Senate and Gold Medal for FUTA.
Oludele gave Daniel Falonipe an F. Saying he doesn’t care, as his class is more important than anything.
Daniel won gold at Nigerian University Games and yet it still wasn’t convincing.
The lecturer made him get an extra year and forced him to carry chairs from one building to another as “prerequisite” to passing the course ESM 315, a 1 Unit compulsory course also as punishment for “stressing him”.
This conversation spawned, as folks were lauding Super Falcons defender, Michelle Alozie who is a molecular biologist and a cancer research technician at a hospital in Texas. And she didn’t have to drop out of school to chase her dreams in sports.
So, Daniel capitalized to share his story, after 11 years. Although, he was reluctant to share the lecturer’s name, but he did eventually. — Oladele Thomas of Estate Management.
In all of this, Dr. Oludele was just a Lecturer at the time, he barely just got his MSc. Lightning almost struck twice, but Daniel learnt his lessons already.
Since Oludele already gave him an extra year. In 2015, Daniel got an opportunity to be among 3 Nigerian Reps, at Global Youth consultation for the World Humanitarian Summit.
It clashed with his final exam ESM512, this time it was the HOD that was threatening him to reject the opportunity or he’d spend more time in FUTA — He ignored and went anyways.
The HOD was a lady, Prof. Bello.
Apparently, Daniel is able to share this story because that single trip in 2015 changed his life and opened door his FUTA certificate can’t open.
Turns out lecturers in FUTA (Federal University of Technology, Akure) are notorious for these kind of situations.
Someone else shared how he failed a course, just because he submitted an exam 1hr early, the lecturer felt insulted. – Athletes, Scholars, Rebels, — still FUTA.
Futarians are saying, if he had dragged it with Oladele, he’d have not graduated even with his extra year.
