Aishat with her son, Damilola
Seven years after an unwanted pregnancy forced her to drop out of the
University of Ilorin, Aishat Farooq emerges the best graduating student
of the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State.
It was in 2006 and in her third year. She was pregnant for a fellow
student whom she had been dating.
She was disappointed in herself and
thought the whole world was crashing on her. Yet, she vowed not to
terminate the pregnancy.
“The rebel in me won,” she declared while giving the valedictory address
on behalf of the 208 graduating students of the university.
“I hope my story will inspire at least one person to change his or her circumstance. I was pregnant at 18 and by 19 I was already a mother. I had disappointed my father who believed so much in me. He had such big dreams for me and feared the dreams would become unfulfilled,” she added.
“I hope my story will inspire at least one person to change his or her circumstance. I was pregnant at 18 and by 19 I was already a mother. I had disappointed my father who believed so much in me. He had such big dreams for me and feared the dreams would become unfulfilled,” she added.
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