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Nigerian teen gets 19 scholarship offers worth more than $5 million from the US and Canada
CNN ^ | MAY 4, 2021 | Nimi Princewill

Posted on 05/04/2021 9:18:10 AM PDT by deport

One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada.

Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars' worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study, according to admission documents and estimates of financial aid awards.

Other US scholarship offers included those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: education; scholarship
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Hope she can put her brain power to use for the good of the World.
1 posted on 05/04/2021 9:18:10 AM PDT by deport
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One Nigerian teenager...was offered more than $5 million dollars' worth of scholarship money

But she can only claim it if she wires $1200 in cash to prove that she has a bank account.

2 posted on 05/04/2021 9:22:18 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Unfortunately, she'll probably get her full ride degree, then never return to her native Nigeria to apply her skills to help her fellow Nigerians.


3 posted on 05/04/2021 9:22:46 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Is this the same person I sent all that money to in response to an email? I was supposed to get three times more money back.


4 posted on 05/04/2021 9:22:57 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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Great story.......wonderful opportunity from the most racist country ever.


5 posted on 05/04/2021 9:23:19 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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“Their admissions processes are extremely selective,” Victory added. “They only accept the best of the best.”

But in the good old USA, advance placement schools cannot just accept the best and brightest of students because of racial equity. We are getting to be FUBAR.


6 posted on 05/04/2021 9:25:27 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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Yea, she probably wants to keep her pretty head!


7 posted on 05/04/2021 9:25:56 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Victory Yinka-Banjo isn’t a name one comes across every day.


8 posted on 05/04/2021 9:26:13 AM PDT by xp38
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Then she will stay here and run for representative, join the gang, and tell us about our white privilege.


9 posted on 05/04/2021 9:27:04 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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How many American citizens applied to those schools, and didn’t get in, even though they and their parents were prepared to go deeply in debt to pay the full amount?


10 posted on 05/04/2021 9:27:09 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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Is she 8 feet tall?


11 posted on 05/04/2021 9:28:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Why not just take some of the $50 million they have in a bank for me over there?


12 posted on 05/04/2021 9:35:25 AM PDT by RightWingNutJob69
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Is her resume REAL? Or just another Nigerian Scam.


13 posted on 05/04/2021 9:44:10 AM PDT by oil_dude
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Is there anybody out there who still doesn’t understand why tuition is so high? Because only certain people pay it. The rest don’t. The kid who writes “BLM” 100 times in the application gets in free. The certified victim known as the female person of color gets a free ride.

This is inequality, not equality.


14 posted on 05/04/2021 9:47:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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Don't think she is 8' but not a shorty either.

15 posted on 05/04/2021 9:47:53 AM PDT by deport ( )
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“Victory credits her academic success story to faith, parental guidance and discipline.”

Three things almost no American youths have these days.


16 posted on 05/04/2021 9:51:28 AM PDT by Renfrew
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Nigerian teen gets 19 scholarship offers worth more than $5 million from the US and Canada...

Hopefully it’s a US and Canadian scam.. payback !


17 posted on 05/04/2021 10:11:21 AM PDT by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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“Unfortunately, she’ll probably get her full ride degree, then never return to her native Nigeria to apply her skills to help her fellow Nigerians.”

Screw Nigeria. We need her here. The REPUBLICAN party should offer her a reward for coming here and a GOP congress can offer instant citizenship in response to those who climb the wall. Just verify she’s not a squad wannabe.

Does anyone here believe the color of her skin fills a slot that otherwise can’t be filled with American’s of color? Still we need her here. That’s what America is all about.


18 posted on 05/04/2021 10:12:22 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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I’ve traveled Africa quite extensively...mainly East Africa and southern Africa...but not Nigeria. If she’s as smart as she seems to be she’ll stay in any Western country that will have her....US,Canada,Europe,etc. If she wants to send money home to help her family that would be very good indeed but I can’t see how Africa is a fit place for any intelligent,industrious person.


19 posted on 05/04/2021 10:16:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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