Olaoluwa Oluwadara, 24 years old, was awarded a Ph.D degree in Mathematics at the 2012/2013 session convocation ceremony at the University of Lagos held recently.
Olaoluwa, was said to have obtained his first and second degrees in Mathematics and Physics in 2007 and 2008 respectively from the Universite de Bangui in Central African Republic, graduating with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in his first degree.
He has by this feat beaten the record of Olabisi Adeyemi, a 26-year-old female who bagged a Ph.D with a CGPA of 4.98 in 2012 and 25 year old Opeyemi Shodipe, from Babcock University.