GEETIMES'Blog: Nigerian Woman Marries Husband on the Same Day She Bagged a First Class Degree (Photos)

2 Aug 2016

Nigerian Woman Marries Husband on the Same Day She Bagged a First Class Degree (Photos)

Joseph Kolawole Ola and wife Anu Yusuf (Facebook)

Anu Yusuf, aged 26, received her Law LLB in a ceremony at Symphony Hall alongside hundreds of her fellow students on Wednesday 27 July, wearing a traditional cap and gown, on the same day, she married her heart-rob, Joseph Kolawole Ola.

The husband shared the beautiful experience below:

“I MARRIED YOU!”

No, not “you”, I mean her, the beautiful damsel in the pictures below. But between the two of us, “I Married You” isn’t just a phrase; it’s the title of the book I bought for her ON THE VERY FIRST DAY THAT I MET HER. It was in a Youth Service Camp in Northern Nigeria. I was drawn to her as she stood looking at the books at the book stand in front of the hall where I had just finished holding a Bible Study session. I walked up to her, struck up a conversation, and felt led to buy her a book by Late Walter Trobisch. I wanted to buy her “I Loved A Girl” which was the only book by that author which I had read, but they were out of copies so I opted for another title by the same author; a book I HAD NOT EVEN READ MYSELF. And the title became a prophetic script: “I MARRIED YOU!”

And it came…to pass. Last Wednesday. July 27th. I married her!

But not only that, ON THE SAME DAY, she graduated with a FIRST CLASS in her LLB Programme.

Pause right there. Give me a moment to tie it up for you…

Of course, this isn’t just a post about me getting married or about her graduating with a first class (we won’t be the first in anyways); but you know I like to draw out life lessons from almost everything. So this post wouldn’t be without one, and here is it: GOD LISTENS TO YOUR SILENT WHISPERS!

Here’s what I mean…

When Eleos was leaving Nigeria for the UK in 2013, I intended to meet her at the airport. I woke up early enough, stopped by at a store to buy her a golden wristwatch that I wanted to give her as a parting gift alongside a Friendship Journal where I chronicled our first conversations in our first few months together since February 2012 when the relationship started...

But Lagos traffic did its worst and I didn't make it to the airport in time to meet her. She had boarded the plane before I got there.

I cried. Like, literally.

But the aircraft had some little challenge so their take off was delayed... So we spoke on phone for almost an hour until it was time for the plane to take off.

But the only thing I can remember in that long conversation was this:

"Eleos, don't worry. I'll come and give you these things in the UK by myself..."

I said it jokingly, though. I had no plans of coming to the UK. I even had no Nigerian Passport at the time let alone a UK Visa...

Fast forward to months later, I find myself telling her (again, jokingly) in our almost-every-night conversations while I was still in Nigeria trying to encourage her with regards to her studies... I'll say something like:

"Don't worry. Study well and FINISH WITH A FIRST CLASS... I'll be there at your convocation...and WHISK YOU OFF AFTERWARDS TO MARRY YOU ON THE SAME DAY!"

Again, it was just a joke, but I love to tease her with the idea...

But as of today, not only did I actually come to give her the golden wristwatch by myself but I also witnessed her graduation and ‘WIFED’ her the same day! (Only the order was different; marriage first, graduation afterwards...)

Where am I going?