The Nigerian Twins Making Nigeria Proud

IT was a day of excellence for the twins, Miss Faith and Ruth Egbunike-Agbakoba as they  celebrated their awards, twinship and successes in academic life in far away Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America  recently. The celebration was sponsored by the Brazilian government. Their celebration stemmed from the fact that they won the first prize at the just concluded 15th World Congress Competition on Health and Biomedical   Informatics.
The twins, who were born 26 years ago in the United Kingdom into the family of their   London-based parents, Engr. Benjamin Oseloka Agbakoba and Mrs. Mabel Agbakoba (nee Egbunike), indigenes of Onitsha in Anambra State had started  their educational career from primary, secondary and university levels on automatic scholarships from the UK government.
They attended private boarding primary and secondary schools in London  and later moved to a grammar school for their advanced ‘A’ level studies, after which they enrolled into St. George’s Medical School, University of London – England, where they obtained their first class honours
degrees and and later did their master’s in health studies, all under scholarship scheme of the British government.
They joined an American firm, CERNER CO-OPERATION for their internships and later worked for the National Health Service, NHS, hospitals where they garnered     experiences in London, England. The miraculous aspect of them werethat they were born as premature babies after 26 weeks in their mother’s womb and first twin (Faith) weighed half a pound, while second twin (Ruth) weighed one pound, and they lived in the incubator for six months and survived at the Lewisham Hospital, London.


Thanks for representing Nigeria so well.
Would they have attained this success if they were brought up in Nigeria?

Change!!!