Meet The 79-Year-Old Grandmother From Kaduna Who Just Became A Graduate.
For 79-year-old Hajiya Fatima Kurfi, it was fulfilment of a lifelong ambition to wear an academic gown signalling graduation from a university.
Her dream came true, alongside 1,678 graduates of Al-Qalam University in Katsina, Katsina State, when they were called upon to receive their various degrees at a convocation last week.
A mother of four, and with over 20 grandchildren, Mama Kurfi felt age was no barrier to pursue of education as it has always been her desire to seek for knowledge at any possible time.
Elated, and close to tears, she told Daily Trust that seeking formal education, which she had missed early on, was an error she had always wanted to correct.‘Mama Kurfi’, as she is fondly called by course-mates, was admitted into the university in 2005 and graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Islamic Studies in 2009, but her convocation ceremony was deferred, with others’, till last week when the university held its maiden convocation for seven sets that have passed through the institute.
This means that Education has no age limit. RIDE on mama
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