A medical doctor, Justin Chukwudi Olewuezi has become the first Nigerian to graduate from the Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk in Russia. After writing the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board twice and scoring 247 and 260 respectively, without gaining admission into a Nigerian university, he decided to set his sights abroad. So after talking with a Russian-trained medical doctor, (Dr Okere, then a medical student), I decided to go for it. “My journey in Russia actually started at a polytechnic university, Tomsk polytechnic university, where I studied Russian language and some science subjects also in the Russian language. Medicine chose himIn one of his Instagram posts, Dr Olewuezi had revealed that medicine was not his original career path but that the profession chose him.

Source: Punch July 03, 2021 06:33 UTC