A Nigerian woman who was left behind after her father passed away triumphs over a difficult obstacle to receive a Mastercard scholarship to the UK.
After receiving a Mastercard Scholarship to study in the UK, Solace Ojotule, a young Nigerian woman whose mother was left behind by her family following the death of her father, has triumphed over the difficult obstacles she had to overcome.
According to Solace Ojutule, who shared her experience on LinkedIn, her father passed away when she was four years old, and the paternal relatives grabbed all of her father’s belongings right away because her mother had no male children.
Ojotule’s narration states that her mother had five children, all of them were female, including herself. Following the seizure of all properties by paternal relatives, the girls and their mother were left behind. Then the true battle started for our mother, who was now both mother and father, as well as for us as children. All of my ambitions were dashed, and it appeared like I had no future. In a literal sense, life ended before it started,” she stated.
During her elementary school years, her mother found it difficult to cover their tuition. She said that after completing primary school, she was unable to continue on to high school because of financial constraints, so she would hawk while her peers were in class.
After I finished primary school in 2006, I spent weeks at home while my friends went on to secondary school. The secondary school registration price was beyond my mother’s means. Early in the morning, I would sell caustic soda while watching my classmates in uniform leave for class. When my friends saw me, they would inquire as to why I wasn’t attending school,” she stated.
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According to Ojotule, she was fortunate that her state’s government offered junior high school pupils free schooling. She was able to enroll in and complete high school.
She continued her studies in Kogi State University in North-Central Nigeria, where she studied theater arts. She described how, during her time there, she would go back to the campus to hawk in order to save money for her subsequent tuition.
Solace Ojotule applied for scholarships after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, and after being turned down numerous times, she was awarded a Mastercard Scholarship to attend the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
Ojotule received a scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in international development and Africa. She will ultimately realize her dream in 2022 when she finishes her Master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh.
“The University of Edinburgh, the fifth-best university in the United Kingdom and the 16th-best university in the world according to the QS world ranking, has granted me a fully-funded Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program to study there.”
“I still find it hard to believe this ‘regular’ girl is here in the UK. I am unable to even afford to travel to the Niger Republic. Still, it feels like a dream. There are no words to describe how I feel right now. I’m glad to demonstrate that girls are capable. In 2021, she declared, “Our dreams are legitimate.”
Ojotule expressed gratitude to her mother for persevering in making sure all of her children succeeded in spite of the prejudice they encountered. I’m also baffled by my mother’s smile after all those hardships. I’ve only ever wanted this. to witness my mother grinning and to demonstrate that girls have no limits. “We can,” she said.
UPDATE: Solace Ojotule at last earned a Master’s degree in Africa and International Development from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
“My mother and all widows who have struggled to provide the best for their children deserve this degree, not just me,” she said on LinkedIn.
