Married woman makes First Class from UNILAG after 16 years in 4 universities (Pic)

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Married woman makes First Class from UNILAG after 16 years in 4 universities (Pic)

A young Nigerian lady, Mrs. Oluwamayo Ojumah has translated her 16-year old personal misfortunes into a success story.

After spending 16 years in pursuit of a university degree at four different universities within and outside Nigeria, she finally emerged with a First Class degree in Biochemistry at the University of Lagos..

Interestingly, making a First Class degree, did not come accidental to her, it was a decision takenafter several failed attempts at studying medicine and under the care of her pastor father, Mr. Johnson Ajibade, and her husband, Mr. Felix Ojumah, who is a Petroleum Engineer.

Feeling Saturday Vanguard in on the experience that saw her going from Ago Iwoye, United Kingdom, Okada, Lagos and nearly to Saint Kitts in the Americas for a university degree that was largely elusive for 16 years, she exclaimed;‘’I am still in shock.”Continuing, the obviously excited Ojumah, who recently hadher convocation at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, flashed back recalling how her wasted years in pursuit of thedegree paid off with a Cumulative Grade Point Average,CGPA, of 4.51. Expounding this at her home in Lagos, she said:‘’I left secondary school in 2004 and in that same year Igot admission into Olabisi Onabanjo University ,OOU, for Applied Zoology and the agreement was that if I performed well they were going to transfer me to Medicine.

I had wanted to study Medicine. I didn’t really get the scope of the course, so I was not doing well. I think I left in 200 levels. So my parents said I should go abroad andstudy Medicine. Unfortunately it was quite expensive and Ididn’t want to get them into those strains of providing that kind of finance every year.

So, we reached an agreement to come back home and go to Igbinedion University, Okada. That was in 2009.I went to the UK and came back. In the UK they were not ready to admit me to read Medicine. I needed to do a lot of courses before and then thinking about the financial implications I had to come back home. Since Igbenedion was better and they said they were going to allow me read Medicine, I came back home.

So, when I got to Igbenedion I was admitted into 200 levels with my transcript from OOU. I did 200 levels and 300 levels but at the level of my MB, I failed two courses, I passed Biochemistry and failed Anatomy and Physiology. By the time I did my resit, I think I failed Anatomy and failed physiology.Ordinarily, many would opt out at this time, but Ojumah embraced the options that came her way.

’The option was either to repeat the class, take a transcriptand go abroad either to Ukraine or to Saint Kits in the Americas,” she stated.Considering that it would be less burdensome financially forher comfortable parents, she opted to go to Saint Kitts, an Island in the Americas formerly known as Saint Christopher.‘’It was not as expensive like going to the UK.

And just within that period while processing the passport; I had a little problem with immigration. It took a little while. Unfortunately, by the time I got my passport, the border had been closed. Unfortunately, my mother passed away in March 2011 and I couldn’t go abroad any more.

They wanted me to go and I told them that it did not make sense going abroad again. The only option was to go to University of Lagos. Now that was the fourth time of starting all over again and I did not want to sit for JAMB. The only option was to do the foundation programme from 2011 to 2012 after which I took Direct Entry into 200 levels.”