These four are Victor Ogburie (Abia State, Nigeria) who majored in Computer Science with minors in Physics and Mathematics. Academic award: Salutatorian - Summa Cum Laude; Merrilyn Akpapuna (Delta State, Nigeria) took another major in Psychology with the academic award valedictorian - Summa Cum Laude; Stephen Ogidi Igwe (Abia State, Nigeria) - Biology Major. Academic Award: Salutatorian - Summa Cum Laude, and Emole Anya Dimgba (Abia State, Nigeria) - Computer Science Major with minors in Physics and Mathematics. Academic Award: Salutatorian - Summa Cum Laude.
Addressing the students among other graduating students, at Dillard University, the first lady of United States, Mrs. Mitchelle Obama, described the 226 graduates of the historically black college as a “sea of young geniuses” and told them they have opportunities and skills that their parents and grandparents never could have imagined.
AP reports made available to DigitalSENSE Campus also quoted Mrs Obama as noting that education continues beyond graduation and should be used to guide and inspire “the next generation of geniuses.”
“Imagine the impact you will make,” she said, stressing that graduates have no excuses to stand on the sidelines, because education is still the key to real and lasting freedom. It’s up to us to cultivate that hunger for education in those coming after us.
Mrs. Obama noted how people “scrape and claw” their way to an education, acknowledging the parents who work three jobs to give their children a shot at a better life.
She pointed the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were recently kidnapped “for wanting an education and wanting to go to school,” and 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who survived a gunshot to the head by a Taliban gunman
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