Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello
Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello (born 23 April 1964) is a Nigerian academic. She is a professor of physiology and the 9th Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University.
Quotes
[edit]- In a male-dominated world, you have to work as your male counterparts in order not to give them reasons not to promote you.
- Life has taught me to be determined, to be focused and to rely on God. Everything I have passed through is a lesson. I don’t think I regret any part of my life because I saw it as a lesson to prepare me for greater heights. Again, when you have God, you have peace of mind because no matter the life challenge, there is always hope because with God all things are possible. So, nothing really bothers me. I have gone through a lot to let anything bother me because I have God who is always by my side.
- Let’s Put Politics Aside And Embrace Peace,
- Women need to participate in politics and when women are in government because they are mothers, they are caring, and they will ensure that our hospitals will work and our schools will function properly and everyone will be happy.
- To maintain peace is easy. You only need an all inclusive governance; don’t introduce policies without the people’s knowledge.
- They should be focused and hard-working and never feel inferior to their male counterparts. They should always be decisive. Once a woman is decisive, she would reach her goal because no one would be manipulating her to get it.
- [7] Speaking on how to sustain the existing peace on the campus
- To maintain peace is easy. You only need an all inclusive governance; don’t introduce policies without the people’s knowledge. They will have to be aware. Don’t just bring in something midway, that is when they will resist it. They must be part of the decision making. One must not be high handed because once you do that, you are creating problems for yourself. We will have regular meetings with the staff unions, student unions, among others.
- [8] Speaking on patience when a goal is in sight
- Wait for your appointed time. When it is not your time, you will see that it is not your time. But when it was my time and somebody was trying to stop it, God insisted because it is God’s appointed time,
- [9] Speaking on the rate of suicide rate in Nigeria among the youths
- We need to stop our children, we need to counsel them; we need to know the website they browse and as mothers we should be our children’s friends. We should know what our children are going through. Let us talk to them, let us feel what our children are feeling. These children have bullies in the classroom, they may be fat and the bullies in the class will continue to harass them. And that’s why they begin to visit websites where they find friends, friends that would lure them into suicides.
- [10] Speaking on how civic education can be used to curb moral decline in the Nigerian education system
- Civic education has been re-introduced into the school curriculum. So the curriculum has already taken care of that. All aspect of human behavior, such as respect, proper conduct and the like are already embedded in it. Whatever we need to do, civic education is important. However, we need to look at the curriculum, to see if there’s anything we are missing concerning all the social issues, and if anything is mission, we need to include it and then begin to actively profess the solution.
- “Have a goal from the beginning of your life journey, and acquire the skills and educational certificates you need for your goal."
