Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has revealed recently that it was jollof rice and chicken being enjoyed by the students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN in 1962 that forced him to choose UNN as a university where he would do his first degree.
Adeboye was awarded with an honorarily doctorate degree of Doctor of Divinity, DD by the University on Tuesday. He said that he developed interest in the University when he went with his fellow students on an excursion to UNN in 1962 and saw students eating jollof rice with half a chicken.
“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, said that Adeboye deserved the honourary degree because he was a man of achievement. “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 represented by the vice chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba said.
