Channels TV is reporting that Nigerian Emmanuel Ohuabunwa graduated last year from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland with a 3.98 GPA, breaking a university record. Aged 22 at the time, Ohuabunwa received his degree in Neuroscience and now attends Yale University for his medical degree.
Channels writes:
Speaking about how he moved to the US, Ohuabunwa said “my parents moved the whole family when I was 13 years old. I was about to begin SS1 at Air Force, Ibadan. When I got to the US, I was enrolled with my age mates, which meant at 13, I was in middle school.
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“My experience during that year gave me a thick skin. I learned to stand for what I thought was right even when the opposition seemed insurmountable. I also learned to look at the positive in all situations. Even though these kids were bullying me, I was still gaining an opportunity to school in America and nothing would stop me from making the best of this opportunity.
“I knew I wanted to go to the best school in the US. I had heard that Johns Hopkins Hospital had been ranked the number one hospital in the US for the past 21 years and I wanted to be in that environment.’’
Read more at Channels TV.
This news brief was written by Kaitlin Higgins, editorial assistant for The Burton Wire.
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