Despite the socio-economic, infrastructural and security challenges facing the country, Nigerians in diaspora are indeed, keeping the flag high. For the first time since 1965, a Nigerian student, Ufot Ekong from Akwa - Ibom state, South-Southern part of the country, broke a 50- year-old record, when he graduated with First Class Degree and Best Overall Student from Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan.
Ufot who sponsored himself through school while working two jobs, solved a mathematical equation that could not be solved 30 yrs ago in his first semester and won the Japanese language award for foreigners. He is currently under-going a PhD program.
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| Ufot in a car he developed |
Among the numerous reported and unreported cases, it will be recalled that a then 22 year-old Emmanuel Ohuabunwa, from Arochukwu, Abia State, Eastern Nigerian, made history, when in May 2012, he became the first black man to make a Grade Point Average of 3.98 out of 4.0, thereby bagged a degree in Neurosciences from John Hopkins University, United States of America.
He was also adjudged as having the highest honours during the graduation.
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