{"id":93880,"date":"2025-05-26T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93880"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:09:13","slug":"tale-of-two-professors-of-same-father-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93880","title":{"rendered":"Tale of two professors &#8211; of same father, mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The older one is their mother&#8217;s first child and first son; their father&#8217;s 13th child. The younger one is the couple&#8217;s last child and last son.\u263a\ufe0f The older one chose a career in academia and became a professor at age 36. The younger one chose the private sector, but with encouragement from his older brother, studied and published papers occasionally. He found a second career in academia and became a professor at age 70!\ud83e\udd70 The lesson? Both of them will die as &#8220;professors&#8221; regardless of when they were so honoured.\ud83d\ude43 A reminder that the enemy of any achievement is not starting! What are you waiting for?\ud83e\udd14 Congratulations Uncle Wole {Professor Wole Adamolekun}, and Happy 70th birthday once again!\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udca5 A PhD is calling my name! \ud83d\ude0e<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93883\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1662367180162-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1662367180162-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1662367180162-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1662367180162.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u25cf By\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Opeyemi (&#8216;Yemi) Adamolekun <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">is an<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Advocate for Good Governance. She posted this on LinkedIn.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250526_090252_817.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The older one is their mother&#8217;s first child and first son; their father&#8217;s 13th child. The younger one is the couple&#8217;s last child and last son.\u263a\ufe0f The older one chose a career in academia and became a professor at age 36. The younger one chose the private sector, but with encouragement from his older brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,7121,7120],"class_list":["post-93880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-professors","tag-tale","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}