All is Never Lost With Perseverance — 2023 JAMB Candidate Who Scored 275

Cursory: “I advise candidates to always strive for academic excellence regardless of their economic background, though it’s not easy but hard work and dedication to study pay in the long run, even the scriptures say it.“

Abdullahi Jamil Muhammad has once again, demonstrated the truism of the words of Martin Luther King, Jr; “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose finite hope.”

Abdullahi, the candidate, who sat the UTME in 2021, and scored 275 was offered admission to Bayero University, Kano, to study medicine. However, he could not utilize the admission opportunity on account of financial challenges, he had sat the 2023 UTME where he scored 290. Again, he chose Bayero University, Kano, this time to study software engineering.

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in an interview with Joint Admission Matriculation Board(JAMB), he expresses his readiness to surmount obstacles and achieve his long-term dreams and ambitions.

HIS INTERVIEW:

MOTHER’S DEATH

He lost his mother to breast cancer. She had suffered from breast cancer for seven long years before she succumbed to the ailment in 2017. It was a harrowing experience for all of his family because it drained them not only financially but also emotionally.

A MISSED OPPORTUNITY

According to Muhammad, his plan to study medicine was mainly anchored on his desire to conduct extensive research on the morphology of cancer so as to immortalize his mother coupled with the way the society respects school leavers studying the course. However, it was a particular incident that happened during the Board’s admission process in 2021 that changed his trajectory.

It was a friend, who was curious as to the reason for his inability to register for the screening, which was then on the verge of closing , who encouraged the candidate to register for the exercise. Ironically, his greatest fear then was not on account of failing but rather on the possibility of utilizing the result! Consequently, the candidate had pulled himself together and has done very well in the screening exercise and was offered admission to study MBBS.

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Sadly, he could not obtain the much needed Kwankwasia Scholarship put in place by the State Government then and which could have seen him actualizing his dreams of becoming a medical doctor as Muhammad was shortlisted for the scholarship award but since he had no smartphone to access his e-mail, it was a whole two days after the deadline that he knew about it and that was how he missed the opportunity to study the course of his dreams back then in 2021.

OPTING FOR SOFT WARE ENGINEERING

With the hope of studying medicine at the Bayero University, Kano, dashed, Muhammad had resigned himself to fate and returned to Bwari, Abuja. But again his friend, who had paid his screening fees back then in Kano, and now a qualified software engineer in his own right, had again urged him to register for the 2023.

All is Never Lost With Perseverance. It was on account of Muhammad’s constant interaction with him that ignited his passion for software engineering and made him abandon his dream of a career in medicine. He had stated that each time they met, his friend was always with his laptop and on closer observation, discovered that he knew coding and programming.

So, Muhammad had requested tutoring in those fields. Regrettably, his friend did not have the time to spare, and that led Muhammad to conduct research on his own. In due course, encouraged by the enthusiasm displayed by Muhammad, his friend gifted him a laptop to aid his endeavor.

This, he said, was what led him to embrace software engineering and had subsequently enrolled for same in t h e 2023 UTME.

Currently, Muhammad is so sufficiently adept at computer programming and coding that he even has his own website!

FUTURE DREAMS

The 2021 Best Science Graduating Student of Federal Government College, Kuduru, who is still hopeful for a breakthrough to enable him to pursue his dream of a university education, is in high spirits as he urged others to do the same and not to yield to despair or embrace a life of crime but to rather be optimistic of a brighter tomorrow.