How we used computer-based exams to solve sex-for-mark problem in Ambrose Alli Varsity –VC, Prof Onimawo Published 15 May 2021 Just before bowing out of office on May 11, the Vice-Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Prof. Ignatius Onimawo, spoke to ADEYINKA ADEDIPE about his academic career journey, the challenges he faced as VC and the legacies he would be leaving behind You’ve risen to the pinnacle of your career as an academic. Did you always know you would come this far? No; far from it. I grew up in a rural community called Afowa. My father was a carpenter and my mother was a farmer who did little trading by the side, so it was tough growing up. Going to school was even tougher but I was lucky to be enrolled in school. After I had got through primary school almost without any stress, getting into secondary school became difficult. At that time, it might take knowing someone who knew the principal for one to be enrolled in secondary school. But I didn’t have anybody who could talk to the principal for me. So, after primary school, I found myself in St. James College in Afuze, not as a pupil but as an apprentice to learn bricklaying, having tried twice to enroll in the school and failed. But the man who was supposed to be my master (in bricklaying) looked at me and told me that kids of my age were in school. He then advised me to tell my father to talk to the principal who was a white man and a Catholic priest. So, the three of us went to the principal who told me to start school the next day.