A nine-year-old pupil of Role Model School,
Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, has emerged the youngest Nigerian
Microsoft certified professional.
He came top among 21 pupils who sat for the
professional examination in Lagos.
He is now a Microsoft office specialist in
office word 2010.
Jomiloju scored 769 out of 1,000 in the
examination held in August.
In his examination score report, the
slim-built boy performed well in Sharing and Maintaining Documents, Formatting
Content, Applying Page Layout, and Reusable Content, among other subjects.
By the feat, Jomiloju has joined the league
of young Microsoft certified professionals, including Nigeria’s 10-year-old
Anjolaoluwa Seyi-Ojo; an eight-year-old Indian, Lavishnashree, and two
Pakistanis, named Arfa and Thobani.
Microsoft Certified Professional is a
certification programme provided by Microsoft Corporation. The certification is
tailored towards building skills on Microsoft business solutions, focusing on
client-end operating systems such as windows XP, Vista, Windows7 among others.
Jomiloju, whose certificate was signed by the
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, Steven Ballmer, says he did not
achieve this feat easily, but through persistence and hard work.
He says, “It was not all that easy, because I
had attempted the examination last year, I did not make it then. But I remained
focused and I put in a lot of hard work.
“At home and in the school, I am always on
the computer. After school hours, if am not doing anything, I will go to my
Information Communication Technology teacher, to learn more.”
Jomiloju sat for the examination when he was
in primary Five.
Relating his experience, Jomiloju says, “In
all, I answered 20 questions, after answering a question, the computer takes
you to another one. And at times, there will be an instruction to skip the next
question. But the programme still directs one to come back to those questions
one had earlier skipped.”
But was he really scared having failed once
to meet the cut off mark? He stresses that he was really afraid due to his
earlier experience but he was optimistic of having success, because according
to him, he has prepared well.
He also gives kudos to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tunde-Ladipo, for their support and imbuing in him the ‘can do’ spirit in
achieving the success.
He says, “My mum and dad were very
supportive. They always tell me never to give up and eventually it paid off.
Moreover, they had bought the latest Dell laptop. Again, I am always fascinated
about computer. The way it works and the process, and the way it organises
data.”
Jomiloju who is a left-handed writer,
according to his parents, has been a gifted child. He has always been in love
with gadgets. His mum, Toyin says, “Jomiloju since he was baby had loved
playing with gadgets, he was never interested in toys. He would pick up remote
controls for both TV and air-conditioner, and he would correctly use them for
their specific functions.”
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