When things work as they were meant to, it gives you incredible hope in humanity…in the fact that, maybe, just maybe, we really can change this world.

Four months ago, I wrote about how, through our Michael Taiwo Scholarship program, we discovered a brilliant mathematical mind living in poverty and staring at a bleak future. The very real prospect that had fate not led us to find him, he would have been confined to a life that is less than, for no crime other than the accident of birth gave me sleepless nights. I detailed my first impressions in a since viral article “Rage, Sadness, Gratitude and Hope: An Interview to Remember.”

Today, I am pleased to announce that Emmanuel Chinweuba Nworie has accepted a fully funded offer to study for his PhD in Mathematics at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. SMU is a prestigious private research university. Emmanuel prefers locations with warm weather. He received three great offers, all from schools in the southern part of the US.

Mentors are our secret sauce. It is hard to exaggerate the role Dr. Busayo Aworunse, Emmanuel’s assigned mentor, played in delivering the outcome we celebrate today. Busayo, thank you.

Help me congratulate Emmanuel. I cannot wait to see what he does with a Math PhD from SMU!


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Lalasticla, this is the First class guy abadoned to rot in the farm!

When he bags PhD, Abike will see him then.

lala