{"id":20829,"date":"2026-04-14T06:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/?post_type=nominees&p=20829"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:18:55","slug":"oluwatomisona-ajayi","status":"publish","type":"nominees","link":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/nominee\/oluwatomisona-ajayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Oluwatomisona Ajayi"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am nominating myself for the Sterling Future scholarship because I am a resilient and disciplined “Builder” who is actively transitioning into the technology sector to drive innovation in Nigeria. Despite being a nursing student at the Nigerian Army College of Nursing (NACON), I have demonstrated a high level of initiative by completing an intensive 6-week tech bootcamp where I successfully built and deployed my first web project on GitHub. \u00e2\u20ac\u2039My journey is marked by grit. Following my father’s job loss, I have faced a significant financial gap, with 320,000 Naira still outstanding on my session fees of 670,000 Naira. I have had to be incredibly resourceful, surviving on minimal provisions and borrowing laptops to keep up with my studies after my own device failed. I am not just a student; I am a self-starter who has managed to balance rigorous clinical training with the pursuit of software development skills. This scholarship would provide the stability I need to complete my current program and fully launch into a career in Computing where I can build the technical solutions Nigeria needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cohorts":[32],"class_list":["post-20829","nominees","type-nominees","status-publish","hentry","cohorts-cohort_3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nominees\/20829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nominees"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nominees"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cohorts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/decide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cohorts?post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}