{"id":125460,"date":"2019-06-11T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125460"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:18:19","slug":"akinwumi-adesina-bags-honorary-doctorate-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125460","title":{"rendered":"Akinwumi Adesina Bags Honorary Doctorate In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Akinwumi-Adesina-Bags-Honorary-Doctorate-In-Canada.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Akinwumi Adesina, former Nigerian minister of agriculture and rural development and current president of the African Development Bank has bagged a honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>He received the honour of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, from the prestigious university on June 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, the University of Alberta in line with its tradition of presenting rare books to honorary degree recipients, handed over Chinua Achebe&#8217;s first edition copy of Things Fall Apart published in 1958. The book was thereafter donated to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library in line with the university&#8217;s tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while recieving the award, Adesina who grew up in a village recalled his inability to get into medical school despite his father&#8217;s insistence.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1560216588_50_Akinwumi-Adesina-Bags-Honorary-Doctorate-In-Canada.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said even though he performed well in exams, his grades were not sufficient to get him into medical school but secured him admission to study agriculture to which his father&#8217;s said, \u201cGod must want you in agriculture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to become reputed as Nigeria&#8217;s best serving minister when he served as the minister of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina, who is a first-class Agricultural Economics from the University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University) encouraged young people not to give up on their dreams regardless of where they started from while promising to continue to do his best to revolutionize the agricultural sector.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akinwumi Adesina, former Nigerian minister of agriculture and rural development and current president of the African Development Bank has bagged a honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta, Canada. He received the honour of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, from the prestigious university on June 4, 2019. 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