General overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has said that Jollof Rice and Chicken being enjoyed by the students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, way back in 1962, made him to choose the UNN as a university where he did his first degree.
Speaking after being awarded Honourary Doctorate degree of Divinity by the university on Tuesday, Adeboye disclosed that he developed interest in the University when he went with his fellow secondary school students on an excursion to UNN in 1962 and saw students eating Jollof Rice with half of a full chicken.
Adeboye said that when he saw the way the students were enjoying at that time, he decided that if God permitted, he would come to UNN to study and luckily enough, the following year, 1963, he gained admission into the prestigious University.
Continuing, Adeboye said that, “I took a pebble from the ground asked God to make me come to the University. The following year, 1963, God answered my prayers”.
He regretted however that he could not graduate from the University as he left in 1966 without a degree.
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But he expressed joy, that 60 years later, he has now been awarded a doctorate degree from the same University and Pofessors in the same university call him, ‘daddy’.
“I left UNN in 1966 without a degree. Sixty years later, I have gotten a degree from UNN, now not as a first degree but a doctorate degree. That is why I feel elated. I am overwhelmed” he said.
Pro-chancellor of the University, Mr. Emmanuel Ukala while noting that Adeboye deserved the honourary degree because he was a man of achievement said, “it is necessary to point out, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, that the University of Nigeria places high premium on positives, and the road to the attainment of its honourary degree is quite tight indeed.
“As a result, anyone that successfully moves through the tight rope deserves our honour and veneration. I, therefore congratulate Pastor E. A Adeboye for his selection for the award of the honourary degree of the University.
“Welcome on board as a significant member of the den of lions and lionesses,” Ukala noted.
He was represented at the occasion by the the Cice Chancellor, Professor Benjamin Ozumba noted.
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