"I didn’t choose Vet Medicine. You know how it is with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and during my time, there were few professions parents wanted their children to go into. Parents wanted their children to become lawyers, doctors, and engineers during my time. If you were good at science subjects, they wanted you to become a doctor. When I took the University Matriculation Examination (now Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination), my parents chose Medicine but I did not meet the cutoff mark. I later changed my choice of course of study. One of my dad’s friends, a professor of Veterinary Medicine, said he would have loved me to study Vet Medicine but he said it was too tough that I would not be able to cope. But that was a challenge to me and because he said I would not be able to cope, I said that was what I wanted and that was how I ended up in Veterinary Medicine."
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Olanike Adeyemo
Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo (17 July 1970) is a Nigerian professor of veterinary public health and preventive medicine at the University of Ibadan. She was inaugural deputy vice chancellor, research, innovation and strategic partnership, University of Ibadan, from 2017 to 2021. She served as the Secretary to the State Government of Oyo from July 2023 to January 2026.
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