
Congratulations to Nigeria’s 17-year-old Victory Yinka Banjo, as she bags 19 scholarship offers worth over $M5 in the United States and Canada.
According to CNN, the high school graduate received “full-ride scholarship offers from 19 Universities across the United States and Canada.”
The offers are from Yale College, Princeton University, Harvard College, and Brown University, all Ivy League schools.
She had an outstanding academic performance from Princeton College, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria, clearing her Cambridge IGCSE 2019 with A stars in all her papers and A1 in all her WASSCE examinations in August last year.
The teen has been named the World Best Candidate in English as a second language by the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).
Victory Yinka -Banjo is Chika Yinka-Banjo, a senior lecturer at the University of Lagos, and Adeyinka Banjo, a private sector procurement and supply chain executive’s daughter. (photo credit: The African Drem).