A young Nigerian man named Okoro Benjamin has set an outstanding record as the first Nigerian to bag Pharmacy degree with a 4.65  cumulative grade point at Voronezh State University in Russia.

Okoro Benjamin is an Anambra native in Nigeria who moved to Russia after high school. He graduated from Federal Government College in Anambra as a top student scoring 8As distinction out of the 9 subjects he sat for in his senior secondary school certificate exam.

After high school, Benjamin tried to get admission into the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers state in Nigeria, but he was not admitted because he did not meet the university’s cut-off  mark.

Benjamin later sat for the Nigeria Federal Scholarship Board Exam which he passed and he was immediately enrolled to study Pharmacy at Voronezh State University in Russia.

Benjamin said that he feels  great to have studied Pharmacy at Voronezh State University being one of the best university in Russia. He mentioned that Nigerians who took the Federal Scholarship Board Examination  were mostly sent to study at Moscow, Kazan, or other cities but for the first time in a long time, He was sent to Russia.

He also added that he expected to achieve this feat as he was one of the most brilliant student in his faculty right from his first year. He mentioned that in his first year one of his lecturers commended him for being the first person in 10 years of the faculty’s inception to score a mark in one of his courses.

”In my 1st year, after passing my Botanical examination, the lecturer told me I was the first person in 10 years to ever get such a score. That was when I knew something big was coming,” he said.