11 Year Old Nigerian Female Tennis Star, Emerges No.3 In Africa

11 Year Old Nigerian Female Tennis Star, Emerges No.3 In Africa

Nigerian Tennis youngster, Marylove Edwards is on the way to etching her name among world Tennis greats after emerging third at the 2016 ITF/CAT 12 & Under Talent Identification Programme in Morocco.

  

She beat her Kenyan opponent 6-1, 6-1 in the third-place match after losing 7-5, 6-7, 4-6 to her Moroccan opponent in the semi-final. The tennis competition which held between August 26 to 28 recorded participants of over 80 players from 25 countries.

Marylove who is being managed by creative talent agency, Temple Management Company was sponsored on the trip by Zenith Bank PLC.

Edwards who was born on March 18, 2005, started playing tennis at age four under the guidance of her father, Eddy Edwards and was coached by Nigeria junior tennis head coach, Mohammed Ubale.

Before her trip to Morocco, the Ishan, Edo State-born champion won last year’s U-14 CBN Junior Tennis Championship and the NNPC Junior Tennis Masters. Alongside Barakat Quadri.

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Edwards saw off Anna Lumengo and Manuella Eloundou of Cameroun 6-3, 6-4 to win the 2016 ITF/CAT West and Central Africa Junior Championships holding in Abuja U-14 girls category.

Last week, Edwards alongside Suleiman Ibrahim and Daniel Adeleye travelled to Casablanca, Morocco, to feature in the Morocco 2016 ITF/CAT 12 & Under Talent Identification Programme.

Kelechi Uchenna, Wednesday 7th September 2016

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Nigerian Emerges As Best Graduating Student from Ghana’s Accra Institute of Technology

Nigerian Emerges As Best Graduating Student from Ghana’s Accra Institute of Technology

Cookey Kingsley from Opobo Nkoro local government area of Rivers State scored 4.1 out of 4.2 CGPA with grades of As and A+ from the university.

At the convocation ceremony, Cookey was the cynosure of all eyes where more than 20 Nigerian students graduated with First Class honour.

The Electrical/Electronic Engineering graduate attributed his unprecedented feat to hard work and perseverance.

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He said the university also provided a convenient atmosphere that aided his study.

According to him: “It wasn’t an easy thing to do but I think that one of the key things that aided me was the study environment provided by my university.

“Graduating from AIT has aided me with all the necessary skills that I need to be a champion in the society after here, whether as an entrepreneur or an employee.”

The Accra Institute of Technology—AIT is modelled after two of the world’s most renowned institutes of technologies, the California Institute of Technology—CALTECH ranked number one in recent world university rankings and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—MIT ranked number five.

It is a technology-focused university, campus-based and Open University system with students cutting across different countries in Africa

Amos Onyia a student

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Nigerian Orphan Emerges Best Graduating Doctor/Student In IUA, Sudan

Abdulkadir Islamiyat Oluwatoyin, who lost both parents before she was six, has emerged the best graduating student of the International University of Africa, IUA, Sudan. She had her primary and secondary school education on scholarship, thanks to one Alhaja Sekinah Adekola the proprietress of Ad-din International College, Ibadan.
Islamiyat, who once won the Oyo state essay writing competition on poverty eradication, had to work for a year after her secondary school education before she registered for JAMB. She finally got admitted to the University Of Ibadan, to study medicine, around the same time, she got a scholarship to study Nursing at IUA.
She had to choose Sudan because it was a scholarship and studying medicine in Nigeria without a full pocket could be difficult. She, however, ended up graduating as a doctor because in her primordial year, she had a GPA of 3.61/4.00, above 3.50 (the school highest score then) and the Faculty of Medicine chose her to be one of her students.
In her speech at the graduation ceremony, she said: “One certain thing I know about myself which can’t be disputed is that I am a living miracle of Allah. If you have searched for a proof of miracle but to no avail, look no further as I am here to testify to miracles of God.
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I will always be grateful to Allah, and my parents despite not living long to know more about them. To my mum and namesake, I know you were proud of me but I am much more proud and envious of you because you had a beautiful life crowned and gifted with a daughter that will never let your dream go with the wind.
I miss you and I wished you were here to witness today. You are blessed mum and I won’t say I love you instead I will say I love my existence for you because aside Allah and His prophet, the next person I live and exist for is YOU, I shall live to fulfill all your dreams. I Love you till the end of time, mom. continue to rest in peace.”
Source: Instablog
Jo Daniel 4/9/2016

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