'It's not where you live, it's HOW you live', says sink estate NIGERIAN single mum whose quadruplets got into top universities

Watching television pictures last week of jubilant teenagers celebrating their A-level results, I was filled with an amazing sense of accomplishment.

In my home that joyous feeling has been felt fourfold. For my 18-year-old children – quadruplets Tolu, Tayo, Tobi and Tosin, who were conceived naturally – all achieved A and B grades at the St Francis Xavier sixth-form college in Clapham, South-West London.

They have secured places at Manchester University, Goldsmiths, Queen Mary University of London and Cambridge.

I am, understandably, bursting with pride. Because, although I’ve not had to cope with too many social disadvantages over the years, the fact remains that I am a 52-year-old single mother. And I have brought up seven children – four of them boys – on my own in Lewisham, one of London’s most deprived boroughs.

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Wow!!!!


Let me continue reading....

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I am richer than you all! I have got a bank full of pride!

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Wow!! I am way impressed!!!! I thank God for their lives! Very inspiring. Make i go send the link to all the single parents i know...

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"Simply put, it has always been my philosophy that it’s not where you live, but how you live – and that children learn by example."

Very true and what a wonderful inspirational story.

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"God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."

They were such cute 3-month olds!!!

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so inspiring

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SOMETIMES IT IS HARD TO SEE THE PLACE,GOD HAS CALLED YOU AS A PLACE OF BLESSING, BUT THATS WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO HOLD ON AND TRUST THE PROCESS
PEOPLE TEND TO DRAW OTHERS BACK FROM THINGS THEY SECRETLY WOULD HAVE LOVED TO DO BUT ARE NOT CAPABLE OR DARING ENOUGH TO DO
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