Nigerian girl gets 19 scholarship offers from US and Canada

A 17-year-old Nigerian teenager, Victory Yinka-Banjo, has gotten Multiple scholarship offers from schools in the United State and Canada.

Victory who was previously in the news for having nine A1 in her WAEC exam in 2020 was offered full scholarships by Ivy League schools; Yale College, Princeton University, Harvard, and Brown College in both the US and Canada to the tune of more than $5 million (N1,902,500,000).

While speaking with CNN, the teenager said the whole development came as very surprising to her, adding that she never thought any school would even offer her admission.

Victory said that the deluge of scholarships has made her more proud that she now praises herself for a job well done.

Other Canadian schools where she got offers from are the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. US universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standford University, John Hopkins University, and the University of Virginia also want her.

The 17-year-old Nigerian said she is however still researching some of the schools that she would like to go like Johns Hopkins, MIT, Havard, and Stanford. Her mother,

Victory’s mother, Chika, said she hopes her daughter’s success story would inspire other young people out there since she is not the typical Nigerian-American who often gets such an opportunity.