Nigerian woman celebrates as she begins fully funded MSc in Italy five years after sharing photo in cleaner’s uniform

A Nigerian woman, has celebrated starting a fully funded Master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Calabria in Italy, five years after sharing a post about working in a cleaner’s uniform.

In a post shared on X, she recalled how a colleague once questioned her comfort with posting pictures of herself in her cleaner’s uniform.

She said she told the colleague that the uniform did not define her future and that she would not stop sharing her reality simply because some people might judge her.

Five years later, she announced that she had secured a fully funded scholarship to pursue her MSc in Mathematics at the Italian university.

Expressing gratitude to those who supported her journey, she wrote: “Alhamdulillah, always.”