The belief that Nigeria remains a land
generously endowed with the brightest
and best brains in the world was once
more reaffirmed on Wednesday, July 3,
when Osarieme Anita Omonuwa bagged
a First Class degree in Law at Reading
University in the United Kingdom.
Miss Omonuwa, 20, who hails from Edo
State in Nigeria, also received the 2012
prestigious “Chancellor's Award” of the
university for her outstanding academic
performance.
THISDAY learnt that Omonuwa has, by
the exceptional academic feat, become
the first black woman to win the
Reading University Chancellor's Award.
The chancellor of the university, Sir John
Madejski, on the occasion of the award
presentation last Wednesday, described
Omonuwa as “representative of our
brightest and best students”.
Like a harbinger of her uncommon
academic glory in law, she had three
years earlier, in 2010, earned the
Reading University Scholarship Award
for academic excellence and won
recognition as the overall best in the
International Foundation Programme.
In 2012, Anita’s academic awards haul
included the Clarks Legal Prize for the
best performance in Part 2 Equity and
Trust, presented by David Rintoul,
Managing Partner, Clarks Legal LLP;
Keith Wright Memorial Prize for best
overall performance in Part 2; and
Shoosmiths Prize for best overall
performance in Part 2.
In May 2013, she was at Shoosmiths
LLP, UK to do a day’s internship in the
Employment Department and in June
she stretched her internship drive into
Construction Law. The latter experience
enabled her to understand hardcore
legal issues including the intricacies of
construction contracts and the inevitable
consequences of breaching agreed terms
while at the Clarks Legal LLP.
All along, Anita has been the harvester
of honours and awards. Anita, whose
father, Mr. Omoruyi Augustine
Omonuwa, is a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria (SAN) and holder of national
honour, Order of the Federal Republic
(OFR), said his daughter had shown
great promise at a very tender age
when in her kindergarten days at Our
Lady of Apostles School, Airport Road,
Benin-City, she finished as the best KG
pupil and had a free uniform as a
“motivational prize”. Anita also won the
2003 Bournvita Award for overall
primary school performance at Our
Lady's.
In addition, Anita won the 2008/2009
Certificate of Merit of the Igbinedion
Education Centre in Benin-City as the
over-all best graduating student in
Accounting, English, Yoruba, Computer
Science, Biology, Literature,
Government, Economics, Foods and
Nutrition.
Her excellence and eventual towering
laurel in England is thus seen as the
crowning of her intelligence and
confirmation of her mental capacity.

source:Thisdaylive.com

Congrats to her!
She is pretty young and a genius too.

Ah! Most people over here never get admission at 25 sef.

Every success has a measure of sacrifice; if you are not willing to pay the price, don't expect to get the prize. Talking about the girl, one must mention being academically inclined or being hardworking. Even, if someone is academically inclined without taking a measure of improving oneself, he/she will eventually end up being useless and helpless. Secondly, It is neurogically proved that, "every able-bodied person is born with the same number of braincells, regardless of race, gender or family background, nobody on this earth has the right to be better than you until you give him or her the right to be." You have the brain needed to make your self excel in as long as you pertinaciously determine. Finally, I congratulate the girl on her enduring success.

she is a gifted child.....