First class mathematics graduate becomes a farmer to survive, earn living Read

– Emmanuel Nworie, a mathematics first-class graduate from UNN is wallowing in abject poverty as he relies on petty farming for survival – Things have never been easy for him as he had to make sponsor himself throughout his polytechnic and university education – Just as some ‘respite’ came through his post-NYSC teaching job, the coronavirus pandemic dealt him another blow as his school shutdown

The story of Emmanuel Nworie breaks hearts as he had to turn to petty farming as a way to eke out a living despite graduating with first-class in mathematics. The Cable reports that it would have been perhaps better if he is into mechanized farming. He graduated with a CGPA of 4.92/5.00 from the University of Nigerian, Nsukka.

It should be noted that the 27-year-old brilliant graduate lost his dad diabetes and hypertension when he was still in secondary student, a situation which made life very difficult for him.

As a way to survive, he became a mathematics teacher for a while at the secondary school he finished from. The young graduate is farming his way out of hunger. Photo source: TheDreamBook Source: UGC Despite getting the award of the Best Mathematics Olympiad teacher in Ebonyi state, his salary was just $33.33 (N12,705.40) per month. With savings from his teaching job, he was able to some of his N185,000 annual salaries and get further education at a polytechnic. With another job after his education, he was able to fund university studies. At UNN, he won a gold medal in a mathematics contest in 2018. After his NYSC, his primary place of assignment retained him as a teacher and placed on N35,000 salary. However, due to the shutdown of schools because of the coronavirus pandemic, he was forced to go back to Ebonyi and make living planting cassava.