she was ahead of me a year in same school.im happy 4 her.

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: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/20-year-old-nigerian-bags-first-class-degree-in-law-at-uk-university/152510/#.UdflGaHdoz8.

Thumbs up#
More Nigerians should do same. We don't expect or want anything less.

very proud of her. Ethnic bigots don't see this.

Good!

hmmm..


let me not say END ..................x

nice one

Thank God for him

Area-Fada:


It didn't because it's ethnic minority person. If she was caught shoplifting/committing crime, ethnic bigots would brought it to FP.

na vex cos dis??

deejay_harry1: hmmm..


let me not say END ..................x

nice one

Guy u too like ban.
Wetin come concern end times mtcheeeew

Ebig22: Thank God for him

BEGINNING TIME TINX... the future is really bright for Nigerians..

We too sabi book for Edo State

Area-Fada:


It didn't because it's ethnic minority person. If she was caught shoplifting/committing crime, ethnic bigots would have brought it to FP.

Was it not fresh news in June?

did u just gbagaun?

Am sure she looks like my twin from another mother.

Ebig22:



Guy u too like ban.
Wetin come concern end times mtcheeeew

did u read my post.. i never said E.T.T..

thank yhu

deejay_harry1: BEGINNING TIME TINX... the future is really bright for Nigerians..

Wanna piss on deejayharry head and mistakenly piss on op head.congratula :Ption to d guy

Congrats to her. Nigerians getting First class in UK is not a new thing though.

Me sef go soon bag first class from 'home tech'

#team ASUU!

Good to Hear!

crisycent: We too sabi book for Edo State

Them nor Know!

Thinking of joining #Team ETT, anyway congrats to her.

I suprise to see this post for FP after how many months ooo...I'm grateful.

@Post

Congrats to Osarieme. Wishing her all the best in her future endeavors.

nice one

end time tingx

Impressive.

otokx: Thinking of joining #Team ETT, anyway congrats to her.

If I hear am. . . .. . . .

Am 19 and in my second year, won't be graduating until 22! Ohhh That is if ASUU resumes this month, if they don't, this session can't be completed this year!

What a country.

Whilst this is a good thing, it's hardly "national news".

We have to stop aggrandizing every small achievement by Nigerians, just because we're looking for something to celebrate. True, First Class no be beans; but it is a small achievement in the grand scheme of things.

I think a "better" thing to celebrate would be the Nigerian researchers abroad who do more meaningful work. One of my secondary school mates (still an undergrad) recently had a paper accepted at a major conference in her field (can't drop her name as I haven't cleared this with her). At the research group where I worked last year, we had a Nigerian postdoc with a DPhil from Cambridge... and there are lots of others doing research at one level or another.

To be fair, getting a 1st from a 3yr course where they disregard your first year results isn't exactly hard.

However, I'm happy for her and I can imagine how proud her parents must be.

Stupid news.I got a first class from royal holloway .electrical electronics.Should I let the whole world know?
No

Why? Because in my class that year 20 other people bagged first class.
Crazy news mtchewwww

And I finished my final exams @19 yrs ..got thr certificaye few months after I turned 20

crisycent: We too sabi book for Edo State

U smoke weed? No be d same Edo wey we dey? Her perfomance is highly commendable. I wish her greater achievements.