Students Should Work Hard, and Pray — OAU Nursing Best Graduating Student, Olatunde Nafisat
Abdulbasit Abdulkareem What are the challenges you faced as a student? In the beginning, there was a challenge of time management. Combining work, personal commitments, and family responsibility with schooling, this became a great burden to manage within 24 hours. In fact, my first examination in the program was written a day after the naming ceremony of my second child. Financial Management was also a challenge. Living expenses, children’s school fees together with my school fees, and other financial expenses. I had decided to quit several times due to financial constraints but with the help of God, friends, and families I was able to achieve my dream. To be sincere, the nursing program is not for low-income earners. During the program, the course workload became an issue. Unlike other schools, the course materials together with video presentations were so much that my brain could barely comprehend anything after having tiring sessions at work but I had to ge...
