PHOTO: 42 Year Old JSSI Student, Studies With Her Son In Same School

      L-R: Mrs. Juliana Godwin with her son, Sam Godwin

Meet Mrs. Juliana Godwin, a mother who has decided to go back to school and get her degree.

She is now a Junior Secondary School I (JSSI) student of Junior Secondary School, Gosa, Abuja.

The 42 year old mother who hails from Riyom in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, explained why she going back saying that her education was stalled by lack of sponsorship, a situation that made her to drop out, in 1983, of LEA Primary School, Riyom.

“I had to leave for Jos in 1983, since my father could no longer sponsor my education to secondary school because he had no money. While I was with my cousin, I enrolled in a tailoring shop to learn dress making. I completed it within a year and six months”, she told Sunday Vanguard.

She left Riyom to Abuja in 2001 with her kids to join up with her husband, where they live at Gosa village, along Airport Road.

She plaits hair as a means of providing for her family and had ventured in hawking to feed the family.

“In 2003, I was able to save some money from water hawking. I started pepper and tomato business with N1,000 from the savings. I also went into corn roasting business, but my husband stopped me from the business in 2007,” she said.

“Now I can produce and sell the products I was trained on, and I started with N1,500”, Mrs. Godwin narrated.

“I came to realise that the business was lucrative and helpful to me and my family. I decided to make savings towards going back to school after I dropped out in 1983.

“My husband was against my decision and quarrelled seriously with me. But I didn’t give up on my decision. In 2013, I went on to enrol at Junior Secondary School, Gosa, Airport Road, Abuja, where I started in JSS I F. I was able to raise N10, 000 to pay for admission expenses.

“Why I decided to start from JSSI was because I had never in my life stepped into the four walls of a secondary school. I told myself I will start from JSS I, as it will help me to have the foundation of secondary school education and to understand what I would be taught.

According to CNBC, 4 million adults who are 35 and older are enrolled in a degree-granting institution, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.