Man Who Was Not Privileged To Start His University Education In His Early 20s, Lands In UK For Masters

A man named Adebayo Ogunkoya has taken time to narrate his education experiences and the challenges he encountered in his career while in Nigeia.

Sharing a lengthy post on LinkedIn, he wrote:

All things work together for good those who love God and call according to His purpose
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Two years ago (May 2020), immediately after my NYSC (Nigeria mandatory one year service after gradation) I engaged one senior HR to help me work on my CV and get professional advice, she got angry after couple of time I complained about her mistakes. She blocked me and took screenshot of my profile to one a HR group on LinkedIn to bad-mouth me about my working experience as a young graduate.
They made me a topic, passed negative comments on me. One said “Nigeria youth believes they have to fake it before they make it” and many demotivating words. Kindhearted person contacted me from the group and tried to encouraged and advised me but I was already down, depressed and I almost deleted my LinkedIn and other social account. (how strong human words could be? so capable of making or breaking others in difficult situation).

I felt like people who don’t know me judged me. I was not privileged to start my university education in my early 20s and I couldn’t finish my secondary school education in classroom as I dropped out from JSS2 (junior secondary school in Nigeria) and finished it from bakery in festac town, Lagos Nigeria where I practiced self-Education (I brought myself different essential test books, A1 in English by Dele Ashabi, dictionary and buy news paper daily to learn how to read and write) to prepare for the future. I have to struggle with the nature in the day while my colleagues are sleeping after working throughout the night. I worked for many years on the street of Lagos and have few years of office experience before destiny helped me to further with university education. I was not only popular as a generator engineer or repairer when I was a management student at Lagos State University but I was a contractor and sale engineer for some soundproof generator companies at Oregun Lagos Nigeria.

I continue with my job search few weeks later with no result, few months later I applied for a government loan to start my small restaurant registered business (BuKka) with my business plan after weeks of sleepless night but unfortunately it was not granted. Few months later I applied for UK 🇬🇧 scholarship after few weeks of sleepless nights of writing essays my application was rejected unfortunately. After few weeks I started planning of coming to UK for my masters as a self-finance student (I have nothing in my account at this stage when I appper as a dreamer to many around me).

January this year I arrived in the Uk 🇬🇧 to start my master’s program in International Hospitality Management at Lincoln International Business School – University of Lincoln as a self-finance student (not on any individual, organization or university scholarship list)

God will never allow some doors to open because He has a better place in mind for us.

Note:The purpose of my story is to encourage others, never give up. #dontgiveup #motivationmonday #courage

Source:Adebayo Ogunkoya|LinkedIn

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