16-year-old Nigerian loses scholarship admission from US university due to lack of money

- Faruq Gbolahan Yusuf from Ogbomoso town in Oyo state could not go to school despite having 50% scholarship from a US university

- The young genius had eight distinctions in his WAEC and was the best graduating student in his secondary school

- Yusuf is also good in software development and photography, making him a fully talented individual

Faruq Gbolahan Yusuf, from Ogbomoso town in Oyo state, could not fulfill his higher education dream despite having 50% scholarship to do so.

Born in Lagos on the 5th, April 2003, Yusuf has always been an academic genius. Graduating as the overall best student in his secondary school was a testament to that.

He had the best grades in 8 subjects among which were further mathematics, general mathematics, English language and biology.

Yusuf also had 8 distinctions in his school leaving examination and an aggregate score of 321 in 2019 UTME.

The young man’s enthusiasm for knowledge stirred his desire to self-teach himself some computer programming languages like Java, Phython, CSS among others with the internet as his resource place.

He also could develop apps using Arduino open source creation board, a tool where he was able to create a programme that allows users control televisions with their voice.

Yusuf is TOFEL certified with good examination grades. He got 50% scholarship to the University of Kansas in the US but could not take it because of lack of fund.

He is a trained photographer and has a dedicated page on Instagram where he showcases his works.

Meanwhile, Fatima, an eight-year old girl, braved all odds to reach her school every day as she treks a long distance of 2 kilometers from her village in Unguwar Tofa in Zamfara state to Tsafe.

According to a post made by Hausawa on facebook on Thursday, July 30, the little girl does not fail to go to school unless she is sick.

Luck, however, smiled, on her when a campaign group donated a bicycle to her to help transportation to and fro school.