Nigerian Teenager Gets #1.9Bn Worth of Scholarships in USA,Canada
17-year-old Nigerian wonder teenager, Victory Yinka-Banjo, who was in the news in 2020 after she had nine A’s in her WAEC is in the news again for even greater things.
THECONSCIENCENG reports that Victory has been offered full scholarships by Ivy League schools; Yale College, Princeton University, Harvard, and Brown College in both the US and Canada to the tune of more than $5 million (N1,902,500,000).
Reacting to the development, the teen said she would think well on her choices and pick a university among the lots.
While speaking with the media, the teenager said the whole development came as very surprising to her, adding that she never thought any school wouldd even offer her admission.
Victory said that the deluge of scholarships has made her more proud that she now praises herself for a job well done.
Other Canadian schools where she got offers from are the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia.
US universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standford University, John Hopkins University and the University of Virginia also want her.
The 17-year-old Nigerian said she is however still researching some of the schools that she would like to go like Johns Hopkins, MIT, Havard, and Stanford.
Her mother, Chika, said she hopes her daughter’s success story would inspire other young people out there since she is not the typical Nigerian-American who often gets such an opportunity.
The mother attributed the secret of her daughter’s success to discipline, parental guidance, and faith.
Recall that there were reports of another 17-year old Igala born girl, Shaibu Ojonugwa Favour, who was confirmed to have made distinctions in her WASSCE paper, a feat not many
teenagers her age can boast of.
Favour who hails from Ibana in Okpo of Olamaboro local government area of Kogi state graduated from Global College, Ojokodo in Ankpa where she came out with 5As and 2Bs – a number of distinctions that is hardly heard of in her school.