One Emmanuel Nworie has left many heartbroken as his story is one of a brilliant mind without any opportunity presented by his immediate society for him to thrive.

The young man has had to turn to petty farming as a way to make a living despite bagging a first class degree in mathematics.

According to TheCable, he graduated with a CGPA of 4.92/5.00 from the University of Nigerian, Nsukka (UNN).

The brilliant graduate who lost his father to diabetes and hypertension when he was still in secondary school, found himself in a situation that made life very difficult for him.

As a way to survive, the 27-year-old worked as a mathematics teacher for a while at the secondary school he finished from.

Despite being awarded the Best Mathematics Olympiad teacher in Ebonyi state, his salary was just a measly N12,705 per month.

He was able to save some money from his teaching job, so with his savings from the N185,000 annual salaries, he went to further his education at a polytechnic.

On competing his education, he was able secure another job which he used to fund his degree programme at UNN.

While in the university, he won a gold medal in a mathematics contest in 2018.

After his mandatory one year National Youth Service, NYSC, his place of primary assignment retained him as a teacher with a N35,000 salary.

However, due to the shutdown of schools since March as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, he was forced to go back to Ebonyi and make a living from planting cassava.


Source: https://www.hotfrom9ja.com/how-a-first-class-mathematics-graduate-resorted-to-petty-farming-to-survive/

his little beginning. . .

education is overrated.

Nothing special here.. the headline is misleading.

Biggie225:
education is overrated.

Then try ignorance

He had the wrong education.
Education in Nigeria create opportunist rather than solution creators.

The world today is evolving, he should evolve also.

One can imagine how he must have been the envy of his peers and fellow corpers when they knew he had a first class degree.
In saner climes,he would have been automatically retained by the university and his post graduate training fully sponsored by the university till his pH.D then automatically employed by the university to lecture.
Of course, nothing is sane in this part of the world.

A professor based abroad is now interested in him. His story will change soon.

We have a lot of graduates with good grades and good brains roaming the streets in search of jobs or doing menial jobs