A SHORT SCHOLARSHIP STORY

1) In June/July 2016, I conducted a training for corp members while working as a Care & Support HIV/AIDS Officer in Lafia Nasarawa State.

As you can see, she was always responding to questions during the training.
2) Our first date few days after the training I conducted for her batch of corp members.
3) Love don dey shack us.

I had a blue room then.😀.

The ceiling was even broken small sef😀.
4). We began to go for community outreach and HIV/AIDS programs together.

This was us at International Youth Day 2016 organised by my then organisation, Family Health Care Foundation (FAHCI) in Lafia.
5) I got awarded the @commschols and this was the day I left Nigeria. She saw me off to the Abuja airport .
6) I went to @leedsbeckett, studied http://M.Sc  public health and made a distinction.
7) A year later, she got awarded the @commschols tenable at @leedsbeckett. The same school I attended.
8) She saw me off to the airport when I was leaving the UK after my studies.

We were doing funny faces on the coach while headed to Manchester from Leeds.😀
9) She studied hard and made a distinction plus a Dean's price in Health Promotion. Yes! She is smart like that.

Her beautiful mum was at her graduation. Me and her mama na 5&6. I call her mum "Mummy bombom" or "Mummy Oku". She calls me "Skillo bombom"😀
10)

Do you know we even had the same thesis supervisor at @leedsbeckett and it was all coincidence. When God plans, it always appears like a rumor😀.
11) and Yes! We are now married😀

I call her Squeezim.

Twitter dey call her @zinnezi
12)

Lesson: On this Scholarship journey, align yourself with those who have similar interest. You will go far.

Keep applying.

You will win soon.

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