Davido visits alma mater, vows support for varsity’s music dept

Award-winning hip-hop singer, David Adeleke, popularly called Davido, has emphasised the importance of education in achieving excellence across all human endeavours, saying that it is therefore wrong for anyone to say that education is a scam. Davido showed that, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, in 2015, he’s always quick to brag to his colleagues that he went to school. The hip-hop singer, who described music and creativity as akin to oil in present-day Nigeria, pledged to invest in the development of the music department of his alma mater with an ultra-modern building and sophisticated, standard equipment that would further help the university produce world-class graduates in music.

The Omo Baba Olowo crooner indicated that combining his university education programme with his music career, which was already going global, was tough, and he was almost quitting, but for the support of his billionaire father and elder brother to Osun State Governor, Dr Adedeji Adeleke, his auntie, and some other lecturers of the university. Davido showed that aside from his beautiful wife, Chioma, one other thing he took away from Babcock that has helped shape his career. This on Sunday while interacting with journalists during his visit to Babcock University, Ilisan Remo. The artist was given a heroic welcome by both the university management team, led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Afolarin Ojewole, and the students of the institution, who came out in large numbers to welcome one of them back to the university.

Speaking on the impact of the university on his life and career, Davido showed that “aside from my wife, whom I met at the university, I’ll say discipline is another thing.

“I already. In Oakwood, so I was here for about two and a half years and I lived in the house of the VC and after that, I actually dropped music, so I blew up so much that I couldn’t stay in school fully because of fans and stuff like that, but with the help of Prof and my auntie that pushed me I was able to finish. “Sometimes, I’ll be like, auntie, I’m leaving, I’m leaving, I’m going but she will say David, be patient and just finish, and I ended up finishing, and like I indicated before It’s been a bragging rights for me among my colleagues, I am always quick to tell them that I went to school, I will say I went to school, It is something I’m happy, that I ended up doing. ” Speaking further on his vision for his alma mater, Davido indicated that “The music department is what I want to expand.