Meet The Pepper Seller who is Redeemers University’s Best Graduating Student
Hunger pushes several people over the sting . Some steal, others kill many destroy but Ifeoluwa’s hunger for fulfillment drove her along the long, dusty and narrow path to greatness.
“I, Bejide Ifeoluwa, the girl who sold plantain chips, who sold pepper and tomatoes, who sold fish, who swept the school rooms is now a graduate!”
With those words she received a powerful ovation from prominent Nigerians including former minister of defence – Theophilus Danjuma and therefore the General Overseer of the Redeemed Church Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
Ifeoluwa finished with a Cumulative mark Average of 4.93. If you ever went through the rigours to urge a primary class you’d understand the long hours, the pain and self deprivation she had to endure consistently for 4 years.
What drove her?
According to Ifeoluwa, her story started at the primary convocation of an equivalent institution which she attended as a JSS 2 student in company of Professor L.B. kolawole who later challenged her saying, “it was a female such as you who collected all those prizes, you can also roll in the hay .”
“In other to pay back a mother like this who has always been struggling for her children, i made a decision to not only be a primary class student, but to be the best”, she said.
Speaking on the perceived limitation faced by most of the people from less privileged backgrounds, Ifeoluwa says God blesses those that dream and add hardwork thereto .
“I always said to myself, i’m not the primary person to return from a less privileged home. If Daddy G.O (pastor E.A. Adeboye) could make it, why can’t I? If numerous of the professors here who had poor backgrounds could make it, why should I not?”
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