Israel Ayodele
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Israel Ayodele
@the_ayodelee
Marvel fan | Student | Liverpool FC | Messi 🐐
I don't even know เข้าร่วม Şubat 2025
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Another day as a LAUTECH student thinking about other schools and their “we don’t have this, we don’t have that”… meanwhile here, somehow there is always something on ground.
LAUTECH really dey try for us no lie🤩
ThomasLFC@Konstant4231
Another day as an OAU student, realizing that if I were ever bitten by a snake, there might not even be antivenom at the health center let alone an ambulance”moku moku gbe niyen”.
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No be your school first use this portal.
Unilorin is using this portal ahead of you.
Unilorin started using this portal in 2023 and your school copied it in 2024, I think.
Medic Toriq👨🏿⚕️@MedicToriq
Una don copy my school abi 😂😒
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@StudentByNature Looks like it’s the same person doing these university portals, cos this is exactly how lautech’s portal look like.
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I have been aware of the new features of this new e-portal weeks back, and all I can say to the entire student populace is to brace up.
The inclusion of the elections tab in the main menu is something students should actually be thinking about. Why is something that only happens once in a while placed right next to lectures and results like it is a daily academic activity? There is only one answer.
And now, even basic things like checking results sometimes come with extra charges. Little by little, more parts of student life are being tied to payment
I have my theories about every single detail on this new portal, but for now, I will leave it there 🙂↕️😊

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Israel Ayodele รีทวีตแล้ว


This is the testament that the lord is Good
I didn’t just earn a degree; I was also awarded the BGS of my department. 🥺🎉
#convocation #lautech #class2025




Esther Adepoju@mhideythomas
This month isn’t just April—it’s a month of celebration for me.🤭🤭🎉🎉🎉
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B.TECH BIOCHEMISTRY
Verily in remembrance of Allah my heart finds peace. Alhamdullilah !
Re-introducing
AKANMU MUBARAK ADETUNJI
Second class honors
Happy convocation day to me !
#LAUconvo18th #lautechclass2025 #lautech #graduate #lautechconnect



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@WalestarTV Wow… I have been seeing it, I thought it was a joke
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Congratulations to all class’ 25 on their convocation today #LAUTECH
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Israel Ayodele รีทวีตแล้ว

CONVOCATION LECTURE
The Great Hall
18TH CONVOCATION CEREMONIES
Link flash.lautech.edu.ng/convocation-le…
#LAUConvo18th #Lautech
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He is 31 years old
At nine months old, a failed measles injection by a local nurse caused avascular necrosis, leading to lifelong hip pain and leg weakness until his hip replacement surgery
Four of his siblings died in childhood (likely related to sickle cell trait in the family), making his survival a "statistical miracle"
At age 10, he dropped out of school due to poverty but returned after his mother worked as a cleaner for six years to pay his fees
He learned chess as a kid at a local barber's shop in a Lagos slum while playing video games with friends
Barely spoke English when he started secondary school (mostly Yoruba at home) but quickly picked it up from classmates
His mother was a petty trader (thrift clothes seller), and his father sold spare parts. They met in a Lagos market
Chess helped him develop a strong photographic memory, which he used to cram for exams and survive without parental allowances
He became Nigeria's No 13 ranked chess player and earned the National Master title at age 20
He won gold medals representing Yaba College of Technology in the Nigeria Polytechnic Games and the RCCG Chess Championship
He also won the National Friends of Chess Tournament and the Chevron Chess Open
He got a diploma in computer science and used chess winnings to support himself through school
Founded Chess in Slums Africa in September 2018 as a volunteer-driven nonprofit after visiting slums like Majidun
The organization has reached thousands of underprivileged kids, including producing a 10-year-old champion with cerebral palsy
Tunde Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon (over 60 hours) in Times Square, New York, in 2024
Featured in CNN African Voices for his work
Tunde has a younger brother (two years apart)
He credits chess with saving him from slum poverty and giving him an "intellectual identity"
He once simultaneously won 10 chess games at the DLD Conference in Germany
First African to win the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact in Spain.
Won the Corporate Chess Championship in Malawi with a perfect 7/7 score
Tunde dreams of building the world's biggest chess institute in Nigeria
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Tunde Onakoya has brought attention to Africa through Chess.
He started teaching chess at a younger age to children.
I'm talking of around 2013/2014 when he was meeting at parks around Lagos State, just to teach kids in the open (mostly after work hours)
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Today, I am more interested in telling you more about him, and how he has also risen from a place of deep poverty and struggles.
He has done soooo much for people and it's only expected that these past impacts would show on him as well
You might have your reservations about him, but you cannot downplay how he used the game of chess to bring great changes to children's lives.
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A lot of children now have access to education, purpose and meaning, thanks to Chess.
You are also part of his story. Tunde didn't do all these alone.
Your support, your accolades, your retweet, your reposts, everything
So look at the bigger picture.
Think of the kids whose lives have changed from taking alcohols and drugs on the streets of slums, to having regulated mental health and more purpose driven lives, due to Chess and the opportunity it brought.
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Tunde can't certainly please everyone, and yes, there might be actions that many people would attribute to him being human.
But if children would smile again, because he created an opportunity for them to have their smiles again.... Then it's one of the best legacies anyone can ever have.
And you also can create your own legacy to which nations would applaud, recognise and help preserve 🫂
The sky is big enough for you, I and Tunde to shine and shine bountifully well ❤️
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist
Tunde Onakoya@Tunde_OD
First Nigerian to play chess at the Louvre 🇫🇷-The world’s most prestigious museum.
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