A Babcock University graduate credits ChatGPT and Gemini with helping him master a course he genuinely struggled with. There's a quieter requirement sitting underneath that story.
Punch Newspapers published an interview this week with Oluwadamilola Soji-Oderinde, a first-class Software Engineering graduate from Babcock University, about how he studied. Long study sessions and cramming never worked for him, he explained, so he leaned on active recall, past questions, and quiet late-night study sessions instead. The detail that stood out: he used ChatGPT, Gemini, and an app called Acad AI regularly, generating quizzes from his own notes and talking through lecture material with them after reading, to check whether he'd actually understood it.
He named one specific example: Z Schemas, a notoriously difficult topic within a course called Formal Methods and Specifications, something he initially struggled with and eventually understood properly with the help of these tools.
Every one of those study sessions, generating a quiz, asking an AI tool to re-explain a concept, working through a difficult topic conversationally, requires an active internet connection the entire time. Not a one-time download. Not a single page load. A real, sustained connection for as long as the studying lasts, often late at night, often for an hour or more at a stretch.
This is becoming a genuinely common study pattern among Nigerian university students, not an isolated case. Which means the students without reliable data aren't just missing out on one convenience. They're missing out on a study method that's increasingly part of how their peers are actually reaching first-class results.
We don't build study tools, and we're not claiming AI is the reason any student succeeds. What we notice in a story like this is simpler: a verified student with real, reliable data can actually use tools like this the way this graduate did, converting a study method into a real result. A student without that data can't, no matter how good the method is. Closing that gap is the specific, narrow thing Reachable exists to do.
This post is based on an interview published by Punch Newspapers in September 2026. Details reflect one graduate's personal account of his own study habits, not a general claim about how all students study.