A 20-year-old Nigerian Medical Doctor, Lilian Okafor, is trending online for an an inspiring post she shared via her Instagram handle of how a teacher told her mother that she could not cope with
medical school after she graduated form High School at age 13.A proud Lilian Okafor finally got her licence to practice in Nigeria last week after she passed all necessary examinations.
She shared the photo above and captioned it with:
I remember a teacher telling my mom when I finished high school at age 13 that I couldn’t cope with medical school at that age but my mom knew her daughter….even though I waited for over a year (thanks to the struggles we face to get into Nigerian Universities), I went to Uganda (some people laughed at me for going but it was the best decision..the reason is a story for another day)…got my degree, wrote the Nigerian exam…passed of course got inducted yesterday… at age 20…”hey teacher, i did it well”… THANK YOU LORD… now licensed in both East Africa and Nigeria…. Thank you mom and dad… Thank you baee… btw, dad needs to stop calling me a baby Doctor…Congratulations Dr. Okafor!
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