INSPIRATION : NIGERIAN BREAKS ACADEMIC RECORD AT JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

A 22year-old Nigerian,Emmanuel Ohuanbunwa has made history at John Hopkins University,United States of America by becoming the first black man to make a Grade Point Average of 3.98 out of 4.0 to bag a degree in Neurosciences in the University.Ohuanbunwa from Arochukwu,Abia State had the highest honours during the commencement that was held on May 24,2012.

For his hardwork,Ohuanbunwa has won a scholarship to study medicine at Yale University,one of the Ivy League universities in the U.S.He has also been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society,a prestigious honour group that features membership of 17 U.S Presidents,37 U.S Supreme Court Justices and 136 Nobel Prize winners.Emmanuel Ohuanbunwa was born in Okota,Lagos and attended Lily Fields Primary School,Lagos.At 13,he left Nigeria after his junior secondary school education at Air Force Comprehensive School, Ibadan,Oyo State.He said ''I was definitely not the brightest at Air Force.At that time I felt like I spent more time running away from seniors than focusing on my studies.Nevertheless,I learnt three things at Airforce that served me well in the U.S.I learnt discipline,adaptability and resilience.These attributes helped me a lot in the U.S.Click on read more to continue.....
He continued''When I got to the U.S,I was enrolled with my agemates which meant I was in the middle school.I went to Fondue Middle School which was in the middle of the ghetto.That was one of the darkest years for me because I encountered a lot of peer pressure.Some of the students,ignorant about Africa,bullied me and called me names such as ''African booty scratcher" because to them Africans were dirty and scratched their butts all the time.Some asked me if I lived in mud huts and ate faeces for breakfast.I remember one day when I was walking to the school bus,a black boy came from behind and punched me in the face,called me an African and walked away.It took everything in me not to retataliate.

He attended DeBaky High School in Texas in Texas where he won the award for the Most Outstanding Senior Young man and student volunteer for his volunteer activities in the state of Texas during his high school graduation.
Ohuanbunwa later won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation full scholarship to any university of his choice.He worked hard and gained admission to John Hopkins to study Neurosciences.Ohunabunwa advised Nigerian youths who have the wherewithal to go abroad to study,also calling on wealthy Nigerians to invest more in the education of the poor rather than in acqusition of material things.