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She spends her spare time in a similar way to many other ten-year-old girls - playing with Barbie dolls and making loom bands. But the key difference between Esther Okade and other children her age is that she has been accepted to study for a university maths degree - despite not going to school.

Esther, from Walsall, West Midlands, has enrolled on an Open University course months after she passed her A-levels - and wants to study for a PhD before running her own bank.

The girl, who gained a C grade in her maths GCSE aged six, has joined the course which started this month. Her younger brother Isiah is already studying for his A-levels - also aged six.

The siblings are both home-schooled by their mother Omonefe, who has converted the living room of their semi-detached, three-bedroom house into a makeshift classroom.

Mathematician Mrs Okade, 37, said: ‘Esther is doing so well. She took a test recently and scored 100 per cent. Applying to the university was an interesting process because of her age.

‘We even had to talk to the vice-chancellor. After they interviewed her they realised that this has been her idea from the beginning. From the age of seven Esther has wanted to go to university.

‘But I was afraid it was too soon. She would say, “Mum, when am I starting?”, and go on and on and on. Finally, after three years she told me, “Mum, I think it is about time I started university now”.’
Mrs Okade added that Esther - who will study for her degree at home - was ‘flying’ and ‘so happy’ when she was accepted by the university, and wants to be a millionaire.

She said: ‘For now we want her to enjoy her childhood as well as her maths. By the time she was four I had taught her the alphabet, her numbers, and how to add, subtract, multiply and division.

‘I saw that she loved patterns so developed a way of using that to teach her new things. I thought I would try her with algebra, and she loved it more than anything.’
Esther stunned her parents last year when she achieved a B grade in her pure maths A-level.
She applied to the Open University last August - and after a phone interview, an essay and an exam, she was told in December that she had been accepted onto the course.
Her father Paul, 42, a managing director, added: ‘I cannot tell you how happy and proud I am as a father. The desire of every parent is to see their children exceed them, and take the family name to great heights, and my children have done just that.’

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Cutehector:
Chai. Wen I dey ten years old, I stil dey primary school. Nigeria can kill sombody eh.

bauer00:
eh eh...Have u forgotten u couldnt even recite d alphabets den

Uchan4u:
To study in Nigeria is very difficult...the dumbest student in Nigeria, if given the opportunity to study abroad would become a first class material. The environment is not friendly at all over here.
If this child were to be trained here in Nigeria, she would still be in Primary 5 at her age

Cutehector:
Chai. Wen I dey ten years old, I stil dey primary school. Nigeria can kill sombody eh.

MisterLongman:
[color=#0000]That time I still dey recite
Two times one......... Two
Two. Times two........ Four........
But its too early whether she's brilliant or not, there is time for everything[/color]

shadowgwalker:
these people should leave our small girls alone oh! instead of good morals, the girls will get back home naeked.

Islie:

Naked in what sense



You can tell her mum to leave her alone then