{"id":15905,"date":"2026-11-12T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/student-disowned-for-leaving-seminary-bags-straight-as-in-medical-school\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:45:53","slug":"student-disowned-for-leaving-seminary-bags-straight-as-in-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/student-disowned-for-leaving-seminary-bags-straight-as-in-medical-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Student disowned for leaving seminary bags straight A&#8217;s in medical school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medical student at Ebonyi State University, Ejem Ifechukwu, who was reportedly disowned by his family for leaving the seminary to pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor, has recorded a perfect 5.00 cumulative grade point average in his first-semester examinations.\n<\/p>\n<p>His academic performance was shared on Thursday by the Chief Executive Officer of Educare, Alex Onyia, in a post on X, alongside an image of the student\u2019s first-semester result for the 2025\/2026 academic session.\n<\/p>\n<p>Onyia, who is sponsoring Ejem\u2019s education through the ISEE platform, celebrated the achievement, describing his performance as straight A\u2019s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember Ejem Paul Ifechukwu, whose family disowned him in Ebonyi State because he left the seminary to pursue his dream of becoming a medical doctor?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere are his first-semester results. Straight A\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are funding his education and supporting his dream of becoming a medical doctor,\u201d he wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p>The result showed that Ejem, a student in the university\u2019s Department of Medicine and Surgery, registered 11 courses with a total of 20 credit units and obtained an A in every course.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 72 in General Biology I, 78 in General Biology Practical I, 87 in General Chemistry I and 84 in General Chemistry Practical I.\n<\/p>\n<p>He also scored 90 in Introduction to Computing Sciences, 77 in Medical Genetics, 84 in Introduction to Igbo Language and Culture I, 88 in Communication in English I, 80 in Elementary Mathematics I, 81 in General Physics I and 82 in General Physics Practical I. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The result showed a grade point average of 5.00, placing him in the first-class category under the university\u2019s grading system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2301747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2301747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2301747\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-250x300.webp 250w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-853x1024.webp 853w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-768x922.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-1280x1536.webp 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-600x720.webp 600w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-313x376.webp 313w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-400x480.webp 400w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-255x306.webp 255w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-150x180.webp 150w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-60x72.webp 60w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636-750x900.webp 750w, https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/12143716\/HW6EX1sXIAAw_uJ_1794490636.webp 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2301747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The student\u2019s result. Photo: Alex Onyia on X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ejem\u2019s story gained public attention in August 2025 when Onyia announced that he would sponsor the student\u2019s education after learning that his family had withdrawn financial support following his decision to leave the seminary.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a post on August 27, 2025, Onyia disclosed that Ejem had scored 342 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and obtained eight distinctions in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the student\u2019s family had stopped funding his education after he left the seminary to pursue his ambition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t let such a brilliant talent waste. We will take up his education and sponsor him through ISEE,\u201d Onyia wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>On September 8, 2025, Onyia announced that Ejem had secured admission to study Medicine and Surgery at Ebonyi State University through his academic performance.\n<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, he further disclosed that the student\u2019s first-year tuition had been fully paid through the sponsorship programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Onyia, Ejem left the seminary because he believed becoming a medical doctor was his calling and wanted to use the profession to help poor people in his community.\n<\/p>\n<p>The latest result marks another milestone in the student\u2019s pursuit of his ambition, with his education continuing under the sponsorship arrangement.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical student at Ebonyi State University, Ejem Ifechukwu, who was reportedly disowned by his family for leaving the seminary to pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor, has recorded&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}