Tue May 3, 2022 – 5:27 pm EDT
OYO STATE, Nigeria (LifeSiteNews) — A student whose mother resisted pressure to abort her has been awarded the title “overall best graduating student.”
Miracle Olawale Olatunde, 25, won the prestigious award from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Oyo State, Nigeria. Miracle graduated with a 4.90 grade-point average on a 5.00 scale.
Miracle lives up to her name as a miracle child. Before her birth, her father pressured her mother to abort her. “Some 25 years ago, my father wrote a letter to my mum asking her to terminate my pregnancy and never to contact him again!” she wrote in a post on LinkedIn.
That was the last that she heard from her father as her mother, Bose Ayangunna, “literally broke her back to single-handedly sponsor my education and provide me with the basic things of life. She would go through any length to make sure I got the things I needed.”
Bose sent Miracle “all of her meager civil servant-based salary to pay for one project or the other in school.” Miracle attributes her success to her mother, saying, “I owe all of this to her!”
“It was tough, but
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